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English: Basic plot of key events in film Memento. Fabula / storyline / chronological order versus the sujet / plot / movie order of scenes.

The movie alternates between showing black-and-white snippets of the hotel room phone call (in correct temporal order, the blue lines) and in-color snippets of the main action (each one ending where the preceding snippet began, the red lines).

The chart only depicts the movie's storyline and the movie's plotline and their ordering. It does not breakout the numerous flashback sequences (with Sammy Jankis, Mrs. Jankis and Leonard's wife). In plot order, the sections labeled 'S', '5', '6', '7', '8', 'O', '9', 'K', 'J', '15', 'E', 'D', '21', '22' and 'A' all include such discontinuities (with the flashback in section 'O' occurring in Leonard's dream). The flashbacks that occur during the color sequences are in color, and those during the black and white sequences are in black and white, with the single exception of section '22' when the flashbacks during this black and white sequence are shown in color (leading up to the linear transition from black and white to color, when the Polaroid photo develops in Leonard's hand).

Since the graph uses movietime as an axis, it does not include a timeline 3 days and 2 nights long and show those numerous forward time skips, such as when the protagonist is sitting at a bonfire at night burning mementos of his wife, then the scene is cut to him leaving the bonfire after sunrise.