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Summary: wow.
Review: memento is an intricate, multi-leveled mystery in which lies become truths and truths become lies. who to trust? who to turn to? as the story unfolded backwards, i found myself being drawn into the tight plot and wrapped into the amazingly complex story. memento is my favorite movie of all time.
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Summary: memento mori
Review: weird, gripping, exhausting, it's all that but you will not wanna pause this one for a toilet break. The Unusual Suspects revisited, only different.
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Summary: incredable....
Review: if you dont see this movie you are cheating yourself, its incredable. the acting, the story, everything. the people who are complaining about the plot not being beleviable should stop trying to analyze everything, give it a rest...enjoy the movie for what it is....the best film of 2001.
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Summary: Brilliant or too clever?
Review: I'd have to say it might have been too complex and clever except for all the brilliant acting. I got so obsessed I watched it three times and took notes to remind myself of all the details and clues. I might have been wasting my time except that the acting and story are all so deep and nuanced I enjoyed every time. Was the wife a drug-dealer? What was she reading over and over again - I think there are still some things to discover....
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Summary: Very clever
Review: This is a gimmick story. This is not necessarily bad...there are a lot of great gimmick stories. In this case, the gimmick is that the movie moves in an essentially backwards fashion. But as with any great film, things are never that simple. First of all, the gimmick is essential to the story and not just an experimental device; told in a linear fashion, this would not be a very rewarding experience. Also, this is not exactly a backwards story. Instead, it oscillates back and forth toward a midpoint. This is a movie that demands your full attention, but it all makes sense in the end. It illustrates the importance of writing with movies, and it is no surprise that if it could only get one Oscar nomination, it would be for screenplay. If you enjoy clever suspense stories, this is highly recommended.
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Summary: My Favourite of 2001
Review: This is my first review. I was disappointed with the reviews already posted, so I thought I'd add one. I hope it helps. Here goes... Those who can't see past Memento's "gimmick" of moving backwards in time have missed the point. This is the only way the viewer could possibly experience Leonard's condition - which is the inability to form new memories. By withholding from us the content of the "previous" scene, we truly see the world as Leonard does. If the film were run forwards, we would pity Leonard or think him a fool; the movie would simply not work. That said, the movie is run backwards, and it does work - brilliantly. Memento is about memory - how memory defines us and how we define it. Who are you? Simply put, you are who you remember you are. A slightly more artsy film, "Dark City", explores this concept as well, if more fantastically. Memento's style is that of a "puzzle flick". If you enjoyed "The Sixth Sense" or "The Game", you will enjoy Memento. A series of logical revelations lead us to the start/end, which is ultimately satisfying. The tone throughout is gritty, realistic and dark - noirish, if not downright noir. Memento kept me guessing right 'til the end, and left me with food for thought afterwards to boot. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Remembrance of things Past
Review: Unfortunately over-hyped. An Independent film that just won a bunch of awards but is it deserving of all that praise?....
The premise behind the film has been explained over and over again(which makes reading the reviews sort of like watching the movie)but what makes the movie interesting is not necessarily what is happening on the screen but what trains of thought the viewer is led into ......
You could get philosophical and call the movie a deconstruction of a mans personality,ie: the memory malady deprives a man of the continuity and consistency of being most of us take for granted and thus makes us take a closer look at just what constitutes an identity. I suppose the people who really like the film must see it that way....
The movie could have gone even further by making Leonard a complete amnesiac and had his character completely change into somebody else every ten minutes....
Leonard's tattoos reminded me of DeNiro's Cape Fear tattoos. Are we all our own notebooks? Is our perception of the world always skewed by our own obsessions? Is illusion necessary to give us a feeling of stability where none exists? Is our response to books/movies/other people largely a measure of our own obsessions? ....
I liked Carrie Anne-Moss. Not her character but her. Can't wait to see what she will do next, she seems laid back, super cool. Pearce I think has shown in just his few roles so far that he can do anything & has that rare gift of intensity that makes him capture audience attention, the opposite of laid back.
I think the premise is a little weak in that if a man was limited to only those memories formed up until a certain point I think he would savor those memories and live within them. You could not read a new book or watch a movie but you could remember old books read and movies watched and aquaintances. Your sense of self would remain intact, but you would cease living in the present which could only baffle you, you would simply inhabit the past as if it were still going on....
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Summary: Easily the best movie I saw in 2001
Review: By now, you know the drill. The movie unfolds backwards as you watch it so that, by the end, you finally figure out how it's all started. The writing on this movie is excellent and, like The Sixth Sense, it's one of those flicks you'll want to watch again and again to really try to make sense of it. Like The Usual Suspects, this is one to watch when you REALLY want to get into a movie... not one to watch when you've got lots of interruptions or noise around.
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Summary: ...
Review: I'm not normally one who complains about a movie being released twice on DVD. But this is ridiculous. Here's the problem: Take a movie like Dogma. When the first DVD came out, it had no special features at all. We knew that a better one was coming. The same goes for Spy Kids. We know that there will be a special edition eventually with special features, an added scene and, hopefully, a director's commentary. But with this, we got a DVD earlier that had a few things on it. It wasn't loaded, but you couldn't call it a brown bag edition. And now they're releasing this. I hate them. ps. the movie deserves five stars
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Summary: How many times do I have to watch it??
Review: Fabulous film. The script is terrific and Guy Pierce (remember Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?) is a very credible troubled nut case. Instructions:
1) Watch it the first time
2) Think about it... "oh yes!" you exclaim
3) Watch it again
4) Watch it in reverse order (must have DVD)
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