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Memento (2000) reviewed by kvirusp on the 7th of August 2010
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Amnesia with a twist
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Staring Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby the film is about a man with a goal, finding a killer. I’m not going to get into the specifics because due to the way the story is stitched together any attempt at sketching the outlines of the movie will spoil it. What is extremely interesting is the fact that despite an accident that left him with no short memory he devises an ingenious way of keeping track of his goals and information gathered along his search. The story’s complexity is given by the somewhat unorthodox manner in which it is constructed, information keeps being thrown at you and the viewer has to sort out the relevant information to the story because due to his condition the “hero” keeps getting sidetracked every 5 minutes. Pain, love, longing, and the pursuit of vengeance are what fuel the story and its tormented “hero”
A film that will draw your attention from the first to the last minutes brilliantly put together with twist and turns that won’t let you pause for anything Memento is definitely worth viewing.
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Memento (2000) reviewed by philip (Filmaster.com) on the 21st of November 2009
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Memento
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!We are confused completely by what's going on. Eventually we figure out that we're seeing the movie scenes played in reverse order. If we're really paying attention, we figure out that the black and white scenes are playing out in chronological order and the color scenes are in reverse order and that they're going to collide at the climax.
It's an interesting trick, and we even get to like Leonard (Guy Pearce) as we watch him struggle to find and kill the man who murdered his wife. The fun of the movie is figuring out what the heck is going on.
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Unfortunately, the movie is only a trick. Directed by Christopher Nolan, who wrote the screenplay, the film is based on a short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan. Although we may root for Leonard, we find out in the end that he's been used and manipulated not only by Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), but by Natalie (Carrie-Ann Moss). And actually, Natalie is the main character here; she's the one we could have had feelings for as she plotted and planned her revenge with stunning originality and great care. But we never get a feel for her loss, for her. If you read the IMDB's bulletin board on this movie, almost all the posts are about figuring out what happened, matching timelines, and figuring out what all the clues were. Few people seem to care about Leonard and Catherine (his dead wife), nor about Natalie. In context, the fact that the characters aren't as important as the plot device is not much of a loss, but it keeps Memento from being what I'd call a good film. It's good entertainment, but it doesn't give you anything to take with you for the rest of your life. Contras...
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