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"Memento"

I've wanted to see this film for ages and wondered if it was worth getting on DVD, so I rented it first. Here is my opinion on Memento.

Plot: A man wakes up after suffering a concussion to find his wife murdered. He has short-term memory loss which means he cannot remember events of the past day and has to keep notes in the form of pictures with annotations and tatoos on his body. Those that choose to help him may be taking advantage of his illness. Can he solve the mystery of who killed his wife?

Notes: The way in which the film is shot is very unique, in that the film is basically backwards, going from the end to the start and we get cuts at important parts of the film where our main character, Leonard, is talking on the phone in black and white. Very well done, as long as you don't mind film noir. My only complaint is that it was blatantly obvious from the start who the enemy was and any suspense the film had was gone in the first five minutes really. Still, the amazing direction makes up for that in many ways.

Cast & Directing: Guy Pearce is excellent as Leonard and the supporting cast of Carrie Anne Moss and Joe Poliantino are excellent as their respective characters. Excellently directed also.

Best bit: Perhaps the start of the film, which is ultimately the ending, where Leonard's problems are solved by blasting Poliantino's head off.

Ending: The initial problem is solved at the end and it's a pretty satisying ending, despite the fact it was blatantly obvious from the start who the enemy was.

Opinion: This film is very cool and brilliantly directed. It'll certainly be the next DVD I'm going to order.

Official Site: www.otnemem.com

Rating: 10/10

Noobster

Goatboy wrote:
> It was that bloke from Neighbours scribbling all over himself whilst
> Trinity and Cypher were mysterious.
>
> Rubbish.

heh, I don't agree, but the way you put it was class ...

Actually, Louis Lane always seemed very agressive for a lady. And in Superman 2 he spent most of the film grappling with bearded men and a definite lessa.

Superman 3 and 4 were gay films too.

Another child hero bites the pillow er dust.

*Sigh*

Yeah you're right.
A dude in a cape, red pants and fruity little booties doesn't smoke the man pole.
Yeah...Man of Steel.

Superman isn't into manclam so stop your evil spam, man.

Goatboy wrote:
> What, like Superman?

But... Superman... doesn't... look.... gay?

Okay, so my statement was a little flawed...

What, like Superman?

Goatboy wrote:
> It was that bloke from Neighbours scribbling all over himself whilst
> Trinity and Cypher were mysterious.
>
> Rubbish.

I liked it. Even though they threw new information at you at the very end, which is just a tiny bit annoying.

"Ha ha, we caught you out!"

"But you gave me no indication of this, you didn't catch me out, you cheated!"

What made it better is that Guy Pearce didn't fly off at the end, like Keanu Reeves did in The Matrix.

Any film in which blokes don't look all gay and fly around is infinitely better than any film in which they do.

It was that bloke from Neighbours scribbling all over himself whilst Trinity and Cypher were mysterious.

Rubbish.

Noobst@r wrote:
> My only complaint is that it was
> blatantly obvious from the start who the enemy was and any suspense
> the film had was gone in the first five minutes really.

*SPOILER*

I thought the whole point of the film was the fact he wasn't the "enemy". At the alpha-denoument we find out that Pearcey decides to make him the killer (as he hates the way he is being manipulated) and the whole premise of the film takes on a new meaning: a self fulfilling prophecy.

Great film.

Although he sucked in The Time Machine.

But then that entire film sucked, apart from Samantha Mumba is skimpy clothes :D