film idea #001

A new screenplay based on the "short-term memory" device from Nolan's "Memento" (2000); the thriller plot is expanded into a historical narrative that comments on the cyclical inevitability of mortality and with it the wisdom of a "thinking singularity". Perhaps one of the main theme could be evolution & adaptation. Its protagonist could be the analog of a historian.

The thought came to me after listening to a radio analysis of Britain's former colonization of Iraq through the 1950s. History, as we know it from secondary school, is the re-learning of temporal events prior to one's memory on the basis of tangible (mostly physically) evidence. If time were compressed & the process of re-learning repeated, one would have the gimmick to Nolan's film. The new film would be the "Doctor Zhivago" (1965)-version of "Memento".