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Memento (2000) movie poster

Film Profile · MEMENTO

Memento

2000Mystery / ThrillerMystery1h 53m
Detections58,649
Night Frames30%
Dialogue WPM79
Dom. Emotionsad
CharactersCompareDeep Dive

GENOME

Movie DNA

Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.

Darkness-84% vs genre
9.7/100

Very Bright

Action Intensity-91% vs genre
4.7/100

Moderate

People Density-97% vs genre
1.2/100

Intimate

Indoor / Outdoor
52% indoor

Balanced · 51.9% indoors

Object Diversity
95/100

High

Pacing
0.9 cuts/min

Methodical · cuts/min

FINGERPRINT

The full shape, vs. genre

Six axes overlaid against the average for this film's primary genre.

DARKNESS50ACTION47DIALOGUE35PEOPLE35VEHICLES9VISUAL35
MementoMystery avg · 3 titles

THE ARC

Motion & brightness across the runtime

Hover to scrub. Spikes mark high-action sequences. Dips reveal quiet stretches.

Motion Intensity
Brightness
People
0:00 → 113m
02550751000m28m57m85m113m
See every beat →

STRUCTURE

Scene mix by act

Three-act split — how the visual tone shifts from setup through climax.

ACT 1 · SETUP
●outdoor dominates50%
ACT 2 · CONFRONTATION
●outdoor dominates43%
ACT 3 · CLIMAX
●outdoor dominates46%
Full act breakdown →

PEAKS & VALLEYS

When the film pushes — and breathes

The single most-intense minute and longest stretch of stillness.

MOST INTENSE MINUTE
1:30:03
motion 62/100
BREATHING ROOM
3calm stretches
longest 2205.7s at 52:47
All calm sequences · all silences →

CHROMA

Color signature

Frame-sampled palette — temperature, saturation, and how the look shifts across the runtime.

Temperatureneutral
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled5,440
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#3B444E
26.9%
#6A6466
24.1%
#533628
15.4%
#8F858A
15.2%
#B6AFB2
10.1%
#E1DEDB
8.3%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Empty scenes
#464242
#6B686C
#948A8F
#BAB1B3
#E3DCDE
Intimate scenes
#453C3A
#787070
#495867
#9F989D
#CECACA
Night scenes
#473630
#3E4B5B
#7A6765
#A0959C
#D8D3D4
Outdoor scenes
#3F3836
#545256
#787074
#A1989D
#D8D4D3
Romantic scenes
#453934
#56575B
#7C767A
#A8A2A7
#DBD8D4
Vibrant scenes
#72412B
#25486F
#2F5C87
#9B5E3C
#447AB2

DETECTIONS

What appears on screen most

The four most-present objects — full breakdown with categories in Deep Dive.

Police car3%
Poster2%
Car8%
Chair7%
+ 6 more · person in 88% of frames
Every detected object · by category →

ON SCREEN

Cast at a glance

Top 3 actors by screen time, color-coded by dominant emotion.

GP
Guy Pearce
Leonard
47.3m · sad
JP
Joe Pantoliano
Teddy
11.2m · angry
CM
Carrie-Anne Moss
Natalie
10.0m · sad
4 CHARACTERS · EMOTION-CODED ANALYSISSee all characters →

AI-DISCOVERED FACTS

AI-Discovered Facts — Memento (2000)

Insights surfaced by machine analysis of every frame, audio track, and object.

  • Memento defies genre conventions, boasting 50% daytime scenes, a rate that surpasses two-thirds of Mystery films' average 36%.
  • 1,868 unique people spotted (88% of frames)
  • "sammy" is said 59 times — once every 1.9 minutes.
  • Guy Pearce is on screen for 47 of 113 minutes — 42% of the runtime.
  • The longest stretch of silence runs 3 min 22 sec — no dialogue at all.
  • 99 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 69 seconds.
  • Only 5.9% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
  • At 134 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
  • 1,815 unique words spoken out of 8,916 total — a vocabulary richness of 20.4%.
  • AI detected 95 unique object types across 58,649 frame-by-frame detections.
  • 411 unique cars spotted (8% of frames)
  • 321 unique chairs spotted (7% of frames)
  • 165 unique cups spotted (4% of frames)
  • 296 unique ties spotted (5% of frames)
  • 135 unique couchs spotted (3% of frames)
  • Police cars appear in 3% of frames
  • 98 unique books spotted (2% of frames)
  • 94 unique beds spotted (2% of frames)
  • 138 unique cell phones spotted (2% of frames)
  • Features 210 dog appearances
  • 4,374 cars spotted (vehicle-heavy film)
  • 61 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
  • Contains 99 profanities (0.9 per minute)
  • Longest silence: 3 minutes of unbroken quiet
  • Peak dialogue speed: 214 words per minute
  • Guy Pearce dominates the screen — present in 42% of runtime
  • Sad is the dominant emotion (27% of face detections)
  • 64% of frames are close-ups
  • The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note

DIALOGUE

Words across the runtime

Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.

35% dialogue65% silence / score
8,916
total words
79
words / min
99 · 1.1%
profanity flagged
Top vocabulary · WPM by act · profanity →

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