导演：克里斯托弗·诺兰

编剧：克里斯托弗·诺兰

乔纳森·诺兰

主演：盖·皮尔斯

凯瑞·安·莫斯

乔·潘托里亚诺

首映日期：2000-09-05

The film is cool, contemplative, a puzzle movie in which you see the finished puzzle right up front and then watch as it disassembles itself.

这部电影很酷、让人沉思，一部谜一样的电影，你会在正前方看到谜题，然后看着它自己解开。

——Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

Ironically, it's one of the most memorable films so far this year.

具有讽刺意味的是，它是今年到目前为止最难忘的电影之一。

——Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Nolan's skill lies in creating an atmosphere for this story.

诺兰的技巧在于为这个故事创造一种气氛。

——Jeffrey M. Anderson

A backwards sequence is shown. It starts with the Polaroid photograph of a dead man. As the sequence plays backwards the photo reverts to its undeveloped state, entering the camera before the man is shot in the head. This is followed by interspersed black-and-white and color sequences, with the black-and-white sequences taking place chronologically before the color sequences.

The black-and-white sequences begin with Leonard Shelby(Guy Pearce)in a motel room speaking to an bunnamed caller. Leonard has anterograde amnesia and is unable to store recent memories, the result of an attack by two men. Leonard killed the attacker who raped and strangled his wife(Jorja Fox), but a second clubbed him and escaped. The police did not accept there was a second attacker, but Leonard believes he is called John with a last name starting with G. Leonard conducts his own investigation using a system of notes, Polaroid photos, and tattoos. As an insurance investigator, Leonard recalls one Sammy Jankis(Stephen Tobolowsky), also diagnosed with the same condition. Sammy's diabetic wife repeatedly requested insulin injections to try to trigger his memory, hoping Sammy would remember the previous dose. He did not and as a result she fell into a coma and died.

The color sequences are shown in reverse chronological order. Leonard gets a tattoo, based on instructions to himself, of the license plate of John G. Finding a note in his clothes, he meets Natalie(Carrie Anne Moss), a bartender who resents Leonard as he wears the clothes and drives the car of her boyfriend, Jimmy(Larry Holden). After understanding his condition, she uses it to get Leonard to drive a man named Dodd(Callum Keith Rennie)out of town and offers to run the license plate to help his investigation. Meanwhile, Leonard meets with a contact, Teddy Gammell(Joe Pantoliano). Teddy helps with Dodd, but warns him about Natalie; however, Leonard has written on a photo of Teddy to not trust him. Natalie provides Leonard the driver's license, which shows a John Edward Gammell, Teddy's full name. Confirming Leonard's information on “John G” and his warnings, Leonard meets Teddy and drives him to an abandoned building, killing him as shown in the opening.

In the final black-and-white sequence, prompted by the caller, Leonard meets Teddy in the motel lobby. Teddy is an undercover officer and has found Leonard's “John G“， Natalie's boyfriend Jimmy Grantz, and directs Leonard to the same abandoned building outside of town. When Jimmy arrives, Leonard strangles him and takes a photo of the body. As it develops the black-and-white transitions to color, thus beginning the color sequences. Leonard swaps clothes with Jimmy, hearing Jimmy whisper “Sammy”. As Leonard has only told the story of Sammy to those he has met, he doubts Jimmy is the attacker. Teddy arrives and asserts that Jimmy was John G but when Leonard is not convinced, Teddy reveals that together they had already found and Leonard had killed the real attacker over a year ago. Teddy claims that Leonard confused elements of his life with that of Sammy, who was a con man with no wife, Leonardo wife was diabetic, had survived the attack and was the one who died in the insulin overdose. Teddy accuses Leonard of creating an unsolvable puzzle to give himself purpose and since “John G” is a common name, he will continually forget, beginning his search again and that even Teddy himself has a “John G” name. After hearing Teddy's exposition, Leonard consciously burns the photograph of Jimmy's body, drives off in Jimmy's car and has Teddy's license plate number tattooed on himself as the one of the second attacker, which will lead to the events of Teddy's death.

电影的一开始是回放，从一个死人的拍立得照片开始。由此开始回放到未拍照前，到进入镜头，到这个男人被枪击中头部。然后是黑白和彩色序列的切换，黑白序列事情发生的时间顺序是在彩色序列之前。

黑白序列是以伦纳德·谢尔比(盖·皮尔斯饰)在一家汽车旅馆里和一个无名的招待员说话开始。伦纳德患有健忘症，无法存储短期记忆，因为他曾遭到过两个男人的攻击。伦纳德杀了其中的一个，那个人强奸并掐死了他的妻子(乔雅·福克斯饰)，但是另一个男人却用棒子打倒了他，然后逃走了。警方并没有认可第二个攻击者的存在，但伦纳德认为他叫约翰，姓氏以G开头。伦纳德使用一系列纸条、拍立得照片和纹身进行自己的调查。伦纳德回忆起萨米·简金斯(斯蒂芬·托布罗斯基饰)，一个保险调查员，也被诊断患有相同的病。萨米患有糖尿病的妻子反复请求他注射胰岛素，试图唤起他的记忆，希望萨米能记得以前的剂量。但是他没记起来，所以她陷入昏迷，并且去世了。

彩色序列是按时间的先后顺序进行显示的。伦纳德做了一个纹身，纹的是对他自己的说明，约翰的车牌。他在衣服里找到了一张纸条，邂逅了纳塔利(凯瑞·安·莫斯饰)，一个憎恨伦纳德穿她男朋友吉米(拉里·霍尔登饰)的衣服、开她男朋友的车的酒吧服务生。了解到他的情况后，她利用伦纳德开车追踪一个叫多德(考乐姆·吉斯·雷尼饰)的人出了城，并提供了他使用的车牌，帮助他调查。与此同时，伦纳德遇见了旧相识泰迪·甘梅尔(乔·潘托里亚诺饰)。泰迪对多德提供了帮助，警告伦纳德要当心纳塔利;但是伦纳德的泰迪的照片上写有“不要相信他”。纳塔利给伦纳德提供了写有约翰·爱德华·甘梅尔的驾照，泰迪的全名。印证了伦纳德的约翰的信息和他的警告，伦纳德和泰迪见面，并把他载到一个废弃的建筑，杀了他，就像影片开头显示的那样。

在黑白序列的最后，在招待员的提醒下，伦纳德和泰迪在汽车旅馆大厅见面。泰迪是个便衣警官，已找到了伦纳德的“约翰·G”，纳塔利的男友吉米，并引导伦纳德到了城外同一座废弃的大楼。在吉米到达时，伦纳德掐死了他，并且给尸体拍了照片。黑白色过渡到彩色。伦纳德和吉米互换衣服时，听到吉米低语“萨米”。由于伦纳德只把萨米的故事给那些见过的人讲过，所以他怀疑吉米并不是那个袭击他的人。泰迪来了，声称吉米就是约翰·G。但当伦纳德表示不相信时，泰迪透露，他们已经发现一年多前伦纳德已经杀了真正的袭击者。泰迪声称伦纳德把他和萨米的妻子混淆了，他是个骗子，没有妻子。伦纳德的妻子患有糖尿病，受到袭击后幸存，她才是胰岛素注射过量死了的那个人。泰迪指责伦纳德给自己制造了解不开的难题，因为“约翰·G”是一个常见的名字，他会不断地把它忘记，重新开始他的再次搜索，甚至泰迪自己也有“约翰·G”的名字。听到泰迪的说明之后，伦纳德烧毁了吉米尸体的照片，开着吉米的车，把导致泰迪死亡的车牌号码当成第二个袭击者纹在了自己身上。

重点掌握

■ The color sequences are shown in reverse chronological order.

在英语中，reverse作为名词解时，有“背面，反面;相反”的意思，所以文中in reverse是“相反，向相反方向，倒(退)，逆(行、转等)”的意思，比如：But what if that same process could be run in reverse, like a movie run backward?但是，如果相同的过程逆向运行会怎样，像一部倒放的电影?

Christopher Nolan Interviewed by David Wood

Following had a fantastic critical response. Memento is a much bigger film in every way. Was it a daunting experience?

It's really daunting to go from having total control and doing your own little thing to having a financial responsibility with people watching and so on. But to be honest the process was similar and I actually enjoyed it a lot. It was all the things I thought I was good at doing, namely visualising the film as it goes on, only on a bigger scale.

The film feels very intimate. Was this a mood which you were keen to retain from Following?

Definitely. Memento seemed like a claustrophobic story even when my brother Jonathan first described it to me. We shot the film in 'Scope with anamorphic lenses because I wanted as clear an image as possible to really put the audience in the lead character's head. Once you start playing with the landscape you feel a lot of texture and a lot of intimacy. And the fact that there are very few wide shots, very few long shots, and no establishing shots at all contribute to this.

The film takes a non-linear approach toward narrative.

Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable. I actually see myself as a very mainstream film maker and always have. Even though you aren't going to get the answers to all of the questions in the film and it is a kind of unsettling film in lots of ways, if you watch it a couple of times it's pretty much all in there. One of the things I've been most satisfied by the film — after having now watched it with various festival audiences ——is that it really lives on in people's heads.

《追随》有一个极好的重大反响。在各方面《记忆碎片》都是更大部头的电影，这是一个令人望而生畏的体验吗?

这部电影的整体控制是很令人畏惧的，做你自己的小事人们观看有了极好的反响，如此而已。但老实说过程是类似的，其实从中我享受到很多乐趣。我思考的全部事情就是我在做我擅长的事，即审视这部电影，继而要推动的，仅仅是更大的规模。

这部电影感觉非常个人化。这是你渴望保留的《追随》的一种情绪吗?

绝对是。在我的兄弟乔纳森首次向我描述它时，《记忆碎片》似乎是一个幽闭恐惧症的故事。我们用畸变镜头范围拍摄这部电影。因为我想要尽可能清晰的图像，让观众领先于角色的头脑，一旦你开始随着场景演绎，你会有很多纹理和亲近的感觉。事实上宽镜头非常少，长镜头也非常少，根本没有确定的镜头，归功于所有这一切。

这部电影采用非线性的方法叙事。电影工作者应该能够尝试没有疏远观众的叙述，不能创作令人费解的东西。我真的看到自己是一个非常主流的电影制造商，而且一直都是。尽管在这部电影中，你不能得到所有问题的答案，在很多方面，这是一部令人不安的电影，如果你看过几次，真的几乎都在里面。我对这部电影最满意事情之一是，现在，在各种电影节上观众在看它，那是因为它真的活在人们的大脑里。

影片中出现的纹身店是以艾玛·托马斯的名字命名的，艾玛是导演克里斯托弗·诺兰的妻子，同时她也是本片的联合制作人之一。

本片有一个场景是，男主人公伦纳德路过一家漫画店。我们能清楚的看见商店的窗户上有一个蝙蝠侠的标志。后来，克里斯托弗·诺兰执导了《蝙蝠侠：开战时刻》和《蝙蝠侠2:黑暗骑士》。

在拍摄伦纳德杀死吉米这场戏时，吉米的扮演者拉里·霍尔登就告诉盖·皮尔斯，为了效果逼真，要真动手打他。皮尔斯，这位健美爱好者，遵照了霍尔登忠告。后果可想而知，在拍摄完这场戏后，霍尔登满身淤青。

导演克里斯托弗·诺兰的本田思域在本片也有出现，是在汽车旅馆外面停在了主人公伦纳德·谢尔比的美洲虎旁边。