Memento

After seeing the movie a few years ago, I was expecting a little more from the original story. The movie's plot of revenge can easily be drawn from the short story. The tattoo's don't line up perfectly from my memory, but the representation is there. I don't remember if the character in the movie was named Earl, or if he had a bell, but the part where he is looking frantically for a pen to write down a memory does make it into the movie.
The story is pretty cool thought. The character constantly waking up in weird situations with strange notes makes the reader wonder how he got there. Unfortunately, the journal entries to himself do not really allow the reader understand know Earl's recent past. Some man obviously killed Earl's wife, and that accident lead to his amnesia. During every day, he is working to get his revenge, and it appears as though he does in the end. The last bit about his ride in the cop car in handcuffs lets the reader know he got his revenge. Unfortunately, Earl doesn't have a pen to write down that he finished what he needed to, so the end is bittersweet.