While some resemblances between the short story Momento Mori and the film Momento are quite blatant, like the short term memory loss, other similarities are much more acute. The short story and the film share a similar sense of humor when it comes to the protagonist, who is the man who can't develop new memories. In the film, Momento, directed by Christopher Nolan in 2001, the main character Leonard, witnessed the attack of his wife, and while attempting to save her, he experienced a traumatic head injury, and was no longer capable of creating new memories. He created a fake memory of the ordeal, making himself believe that his wife was killed in the ordeal, and it is his job to avenge her murder. I believe that the short story, Momento Mori, by Jonathan Nolan, can be considered a continuation of the end of the film Momento. I think that the short story takes place after the main character Leonard is admitted into a psychiatric hospital, when he cannot continue to look for the "murderer" of his wife. In the short story, the narrator is the man with the memory disorder, just like in Momento, when Leonard is the one narrating his story. Another similarity between the two is Leonard's strange sense of humor. The way Leonard talks, and the way the short story's character Earl talks are very similar. They both have this sort of dry witty humor. Meaning that they are being funny, but don't act like they are meaning to be funny. They also have this clever, sort of intelligence when telling jokes. It is very subtle and often unrecognizable. An example of this humor in the short story can be seen when Earl has just killed a person and is in a police car. Earl describes the dead man..."A stocky guy, facedown, eyes open. Balding head, goatee. In death, as in police sketches, faces tend to look the same. This is definitely somebody in particular. But really, it could be anybody." The description of the man is very similar to the way Leornard talks in the in the film Momento.
While some resemblances between the short story Momento Mori and the film Momento are quite blatant, like the short term memory loss, other similarities are much more acute. The short story and the film share a similar sense of humor when it comes to the protagonist, who is the man who can't develop new memories. In the film, Momento, directed by Christopher Nolan in 2001, the main character Leonard, witnessed the attack of his wife, and while attempting to save her, he experienced a traumatic head injury, and was no longer capable of creating new memories. He created a fake memory of the ordeal, making himself believe that his wife was killed in the ordeal, and it is his job to avenge her murder. I believe that the short story, Momento Mori, by Jonathan Nolan, can be considered a continuation of the end of the film Momento. I think that the short story takes place after the main character Leonard is admitted into a psychiatric hospital, when he cannot continue to look for the "murderer" of his wife. In the short story, the narrator is the man with the memory disorder, just like in Momento, when Leonard is the one narrating his story. Another similarity between the two is Leonard's strange sense of humor. The way Leonard talks, and the way the short story's character Earl talks are very similar. They both have this sort of dry witty humor. Meaning that they are being funny, but don't act like they are meaning to be funny. They also have this clever, sort of intelligence when telling jokes. It is very subtle and often unrecognizable. An example of this humor in the short story can be seen when Earl has just killed a person and is in a police car. Earl describes the dead man..."A stocky guy, facedown, eyes open. Balding head, goatee. In death, as in police sketches, faces tend to look the same. This is definitely somebody in particular. But really, it could be anybody." The description of the man is very similar to the way Leornard talks in the in the film Momento.