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Geek History Lesson

Memento (2000)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Welcome to the premier episode of #NolanClub! In anticipation of this summer release of The Odyssey Geek History Lesson introduces an exploratory series where Jason and Ashley go back and explore the films of Christopher Nolan in chronological order beginning with this week's episode on: Memento! Can we remember the movie we watched? The podcast we are hosting? Listen along to find out and remember Sammy Jankis.

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0:00.0

Some memories are best forgotten.

0:15.8

But some movies aren't like Memento from 2000.

0:20.0

Now, Ashley, this is very exciting.

0:21.9

We're diving into a movie that is 26 years old.

0:26.0

It's 26.

0:26.6

It can now buy a drink.

0:27.3

Can rent a car.

0:28.5

It can rent a car with that extra insurance.

0:30.5

Good for you, Memento.

0:31.6

Yeah, congrats.

0:32.9

Christopher Nolan's first big foray into Hollywood movie making.

0:38.3

Yes.

0:38.6

And Ashley, I know you have not seen this movie, but we are going to talk about it today.

0:43.6

And I want to know, Ashley, what do you know about Memento?

0:48.3

I know that it is a movie that Christopher Nolan made that you told me we're doing for this

0:52.3

movie club.

0:52.9

I think if you asked me before we decided to talk about it here, if I could name this movie, I would not have remembered that it existed. Well, you can name it now? It's called Memento. Or we should say it, Memento. Memento. Yeah, I know nothing about this movie. Remember me. Well, Memento Mori means Remember the dead. And I'm assuming it's an allusion to that. But we shall see. Okay. So if you didn't see this movie in the year 2000, what the hell were you doing? And why? Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to split hairs a little bit. No, I was an actual child, which is why I didn't see. I was in the French Foreign Legion at the time.

1:28.3

Oh, I was going to say, were you in Olympics?

1:30.2

Was there an Olympics in 2000? Yeah. Oh, no, I was not. I was a child.

1:34.5

I was pretty certain there was. I don't know. It could be lying. So, Everybody's got Olympic fever right now.

1:38.5

That fits with a moment.

1:39.2

Yeah, definitely.

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