Momento can be classified as a postmodern text as the main character “Leonard” has no true identity. This can be seen through many times throughout the movie. he wants people to believe he is a clinical psychologist who wants vengeance for his wife. However, his true identity is a murderer but only because of his own actions. This can show how Leonard is his own victim as he constantly led himself to believe he never solved the murder even though he had many times as every time he found out he made false clues to lead to a new “killer”. He does this to give himself a false sense of purpose. This therefore allowed it to become a Whitley text as consumers believed he was doing the right thing until we found out Leonards true self. This is the Theory of Ronald Barthes where consumers create their own versions of the text without having any factual information.

The text itself relies on how only evidence and facts can truly be trusted where as people who “claim” to know the truth can’t, even if it is the real truth. This is done to show how Leonard is a paranoid character who is going insane and couldn’t take the weight of him killing his own wife. To do this he constructs a character called “John G” so when he finds out his true self he can forget and blame someone new, this becomes and endless cycle. Because of this, evidence begins not matching up and Leonard confuses as well as contradicts himself and leads him to killing innocent people and trusting people such as Natalie when he shouldn’t.

All of this can be blamed on new and rising media technologies as well as people with power such as “Teddy” who lied to Leonard so he could have a false sense of purpose, simply out of pity.