Memento (2000) Parents Guide & Movie Info
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Memento - Family Review

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

2000 | 113 Minutes

Rated R for violence, language and some drug content
IMDB: 8.4 ⭐️ Votes: 1,240,995

Content Warnings

  • Sexual Content
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    An escort is hired, but nothing is shown past her arrival and her laying in bed clothed with a man.

    Rape is mentioned multiple times, but nothing is shown. We glimpse a man on top of a woman.

    A man takes a shower. His backside is shown after he fights another man after coming out of the shower.(very brief)

    A man asks another if he finished playing with himself when he didn't answer the door.

    5 split-second views of a woman in her underwear. Not sexual, and is the same scene each time. These scenes also have an important role in the movie.

    The whole movie revolves around a woman being raped and killed, while there is no explicit nudity we do see a scene where she is wrapped in in plastic. It is easy to tell that she is nude but nothing explicit is shown.

  • Violence
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    A character is hit with a tire iron in the head. The character then begs for their life but is choked to death by another character. The choking lasts for a good 30 seconds. Once dead, we see a small wound with blood and a lifeless body.

    (MEMENTO LEVEL OF VIOLENCE: 7.5\10) disturbing, somewhat bloody violence.

    A man lying on the floor is shown being shot. This happens very quickly so the only thing we see is blood briefly shooting out from the wound.

    A man is kidnapped. He is shown in a closet with lots of blood on his face.

    The first scene of the film depicts a reversed shooting, with a stream of blood oozing backwards, blood shown on the walls and floor, and then the shot itself offscreen.

    A man slaps and punches a woman after she makes a remark about his dead wife.

  • Profanity
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    A character uses "retard" 3 times, specifically towards another character which has a low memory to test him on bad his memory really is. Very harsh and f words used while saying it.

    78 uses of "fuck"

    "Cunt" is used once in a very harsh, vulgar way.

    A woman says that another man's wife has sucked one to many cocks.

    The first half doesn't contain much of the language but it ramps up in the second half.

    Sammy gives the middle finger in one scene.

  • Intense Scenes
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