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Summary: Best Thing Since "Redrum" Written on a Bathroom Mirror
Review: The first time I saw the film I said... FANTASTIC THRILLER! The second time I saw the film I said... I HAVE TO OWN IT!!! This is an excellent film to have and to watch over and over again. Bring your Sticky Notes (you just might need them). An extra treat is the cameo appearance by Irish-born actor, Larry Holden, in the role of Jimmy Grantz. Also, the film's director, Chris Nolan, put some hidden features on the Limited Edition DVD (My lips are sealed). The film's official site is also a MUST see. HINT: Just look for momento in the mirror and you will find it.
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Summary: One of the best films ever made!!!
Review: This movie is so great. I should spend much more time talking about it than I am going to. If you are frustated by watching this movie you need to see it again and pay careful attention. It is hard for some people to understand but is very rewarding after you grasp everything that is happening. Christopher Nolan was saying alot of things with this movie. Mainly, that we as humans decieve ourselves for our benefit. Do we really want the truth??? I was disturbed by the review that one person gave saying this was the worst movie they had ever seen. There are many films that I have not enjoyed but had to admit that others may enjoy the same movie very much. Memento may not be the movie for a particular person but should not be called a bad movie. Bottom line: Memento is a wonderful mystery. Even after you have solved it you will be able to gather more clues with every viewing. Enjoy!!!
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Summary: Best movie of 2001. Brilliant.
Review: I had one of the best cinematic experience of my life by watching "Memento". It blew my head off. Great script, great story, great directing, acting, editing. Brilliant.
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Summary: I wish I could forget this movie...
Review: HEre we go. THings are funny sometimes. Only because a director chose to tell the history BACKWARDS, people say it's a masterpiece!! Go figure why!!This is a silly movie, witha lot of bad taste, with an evils kin around it. Pearce's character is obnoxious, as almost most characters he plays. THere's absolutely no dificult to follow the backwards plot, it's just annoying. Blergh!
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Summary: Best movie of 2000! Clever and kept you guessing
Review: This was a great movie. Guy Pearce is amazing in it. This movie is the first movie I ever seen the handles a guy suffering from loosing his short term memory. That is was makes it so clever and unique. It is also directed by Christopher Nolan was is a genius. You won't be disappointed in the film. Enjoy!
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Summary: Confusing and exciting!
Review: My husband and I enjoyed this movie tremendously. The mystery here, which we think we figured out at the end, was brilliantly developed, step by backward step. We thought the plot was thought provoking and the pace and action of the movie were as driven as the lead character.
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Summary: AWFUL
Review: The film attempts to make you feel as confused as the lead character. But misses the mark terribly. The backwards progression of the film becomes EXTREMELY ANNOYING and frankly, this film is totally predictable. One of the worst films I have ever seen.
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Summary: The Inverse Version Of Rashomon.
Review: Christopher Nolan is a genius. It isn't that he took an obscure little short story by his brother and used its gimmick of a man with memory loss to amuse us enough into staying with it to the end. What he's done here is take a gimmick & imbue it with deeper meaning than it was meant to have. In doing so, he's elevated a simple film noir to the level of existentialist classic and simultaneously reinvented the rules of film noir, a
once dead genre. Nolan was smart enough to not resolve the old cliche of the amnesia victim like movies of yore where they just suddenly remember everything & then it's O.K. From the begining of the movie we get clued in that Leonard Shelby is going to be permanently scarred, and so he comes to represent ALL that is wrong with forgetting, including our own absent mindedness. It is this hook of the "unreliable narrator" that makes the movie endlessly fascinating. We begin to look for the one true cause of Leonard's problem. Is it his injury? Is it his notes? Is it people misleading him? Is he purposely misleading himself?
In Nolan's film they are all dependent on one another, and the movie becomes a Rorshach blot for ourselves, represented by Leonard's constantly looking into mirrors & coming to absolute conclusions that shatter his world farther. He can never accept the tatoos built up over time in lieu of memory without being reminded of his wife's murder (Jorja Fox, later of CSI. Don't blink or you won't catch her). Even "Teddy"/Lt. Gamel clues him to missing pages only to be blotted out like an incorrect note. Plotwise, this movie stands in league with Kurosawa's Rashomon, its complement. In Rashomon, we get an individual questioning witnesses brought forth to tell stories to provide for clues. In Memento, we get clues provided for stories to tell witnesses brought forth to question an individual. Both movies point fingers at relative & absolute judgement being nothing without each other in the pursuit of justice. Nolan has reinvigorated film noir as a style for illustrating
modern ills. Rather than using the old black & white shadows & tilted camera angles, however, he uses all the opposite tones, light, colors: the character being sure & naive rather than cynical & doubtful, the loud enamels of modern hotel rooms, instant polaroids instead of newsprint, characters who consider Leonard a nuisance instead of a threat, etc. This isn't completely origional on Nolan's part, Tavernier used it in Coup De Torchon, but Chris realizes its potential here. This has become one of my top five films ever. It still affects me. What you get with this Limited Edition is Nolan's commentary (sadly left out of the origional) & other behind the scenes stuff. My favorite part of it is the packaging & the convoluted entry screens that play on the theme of a psychiatric file filled with tests of perception that you have to take to play the movie. Not for those who want instant gratification or are easily frustrated, but lots of fun to those of us who like to stoke the paranoid atmosphere of the movie before watching. Christopher Nolan is the new post modern Hitchcock. A classic in every sense.
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Summary: What Was That, You Say?
Review: Memento is unusual. It keeps you guessing, but not because the story changes or because you do not (really) know what is going to happen next. It is because you have become like the main character of the story -- your memory is not what you are accustomed to. You realize you know much more than you think, but cannot piece it together. The movie does not play tricks with the camera, as some do to a nauseating degree, rather it plays tricks with time (and, hence, your mind). These are the better kinds of movies. Only ten minutes or so are a little slow (you can see some repetition only so much). Definitely one of those that you want to see -- not as a hot-item summer movie, but as one that you have to see in order to say you have experienced all types of movies. Try it.
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Summary: I forgot where I parked
Review: I really enjoyed this movie. I got so involved with the memory loss scenario that I almost convinced myself I'd lost my car by the time I had to drive home. The main issue I have is if the guy is suffering from a condition where he can't form any new memories how can he remember that he has the condition in the first place to make all the notes required???
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