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Storyline
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wifes murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. The movie is told in forward flashes of events that are to come that compensate for his unreliable memory, during which he has liaisons with various complex characters. Leonard badly wants revenge for his wifes murder, but, as numerous characters explain, there may be little point if he wont remember it in order to provide closure for him. The movie veers between these future occurrences and a telephone conversation Leonard is having in his motel room in which he compares his current state to that of a client whose claim he once dealt with. |
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The Director
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British/American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for writing and directing such critically acclaimed films as Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and rebooting the Batman film franchise. Nolan is the founder of the production company Syncopy Films.
He often collaborates with his wife, producer Emma Thomas, and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, as well as cinematographer Wally Pfister, film editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale and Michael Caine.
Nolan's most critically and commercially successful film is The Dark Knight.
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User Reviews
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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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reviewed by kvirusp on the 7th of August 2010
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One of my all time favorites!