

Hell, the whole thing is told backwards, but it's the big twist the one that comes at the end of the movie, but occurred at the beginning of the movie's timeline (get it?), that's the head scratcher.

MementoĬhristopher Nolan's masterpiece is twisty-turny all the way through. At the close of the movie, Trevor finally recognises the truth and hands himself into the police, meaning he can finally sleep. His guilt about the crime has been driving him mad. Ivan is also his hallucination and is actually a vision of himself, before the accident when he could eat and sleep and so looked healthy and happy. Mother and son are his visions of Maria (who in reality is a completely different waitress that he never speaks to) and Nicholas (who is his hallucination). it turns out a year ago Trevor killed a child in a hit-and-run accident that was witnessed by the child's mother.

Trevor grows close to a waitress called Maria who serves him coffee at night at a local diner, and he feels protective over her young son Nicholas, especially when Trevor starts to believe Ivan is going to hurt the boy.īut all of a sudden no one at the diner knows who Maria is. Trevor thinks he's being tormented by a co-worker called Ivan, but none of his workmates will admit to knowing him. Christian Bale underwent an extreme body transformation to play the role of Trevor Reznik, an emaciated insomniac growing increasingly paranoid and experiencing hallucinations.
