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Compare And Contrast Forrest Gump And Memento

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Memento, an American thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, is about Leonard, a man who conducts investigation about his wife who he believed to be raped and murdered by a guy named John G. Because his memory only lasts for ten minutes, he takes the Polaroid photographs of every person he meets, and even gets tattoos of all the information about John G. At the end, not only he fails to find John G., but actually ends up finding that he is the one who killed his own wife. In contrast, Forrest Gump, an American comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, is about Forrest Gump, a man with below-average intelligence who succeeds in many situations of his life. Because of his low IQ, he gets bullied at school, but his life completely changes …show more content…

In Memento, the film has a bad ending. Leonard is looking for John G., but it actually turns out that he has already killed the real John G. a year ago. Leonard killed his own wife because of his short memory, but since he did not want to believe the truth, he makes up a story of Sammy, Leonard’s client when he was an insurance investigator. In this way, he is able to continue looking for John G., an imaginary murderer. At the end of the film, Leonard is left with nothing. He is never possible to get his wife back, or kill the one who killed his wife because he cannot realize the truth. However, in Forrest Gump, the film has a happy ending. After running from coast to coast, Forrest gets a letter from Jenny. Forrest meets Jenny again, and finds out that she lives with their son. Then they go back to Alabama and marry. Besides the fact that Jenny dies, Forrest lives very happily in end with his son. The film Memento and Forrest Gump share the similarity in that both the heroes have a certain task in their life, but also have differences in how the story proceeds. Although both the heroes put much effort into achieving their goals, Leonard in Memento fails and Forrest in Forrest Gump succeeds. How the films show the process of achieving goals is each different, but they sure give the audience an excitement of what is going to happen

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