"Memento" is by far my favorite film that we have watched so far. I know for a fact that if I had watched this movie on my own I would not have understood anything, but surprisingly writing down the events of every scene as they went was extremely helpful. I loved everything about this movie, from the plot to the acting to the order of the scenes. Everything pieced together perfectly. The story revolves around Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) who suffers from short term memory loss and therefore cannot make new memories from any time after his wife's death, and his attack. He results to photographs, notes that he writes to himself, and tattoos to direct him in the right direction everyday, he conditions himself to remember. This storyline right away is something I have never seen in a movie before, already making it an original film. The characters are all very hard to read, and throughout the film, and for some, after the film, you do not know who to trust. The characters all have their own motives and it was extremely entertaining to see them all unfold. I was impressed with the acting throughout, especially Guy Pearce. The other characters such as Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie Ann Moss) seem to be just as complicated as Leonard in their own ways, and they each question eachothers motives throughout the film. I really enjoyed watching the colored scenes, which were going backwards in time, and the black and white scenes, which were running chronologically collide at the end (or beginning depending on how you look at it). I love films that keep you thinking even after you've watched them, and have subjects open for debate because it gets your mind to think while watching. I must admit, I'm not exactly sure what film noir tactics are used in this film, the most obvious one that I can think of is the universal fact in film noir that the protaganist is doomed from the beginning. I definetly think that Leonard is doomed and he does not want to admit it. Like Teddy said, we all lie to ourselves to be happy.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Memento
"Memento" is by far my favorite film that we have watched so far. I know for a fact that if I had watched this movie on my own I would not have understood anything, but surprisingly writing down the events of every scene as they went was extremely helpful. I loved everything about this movie, from the plot to the acting to the order of the scenes. Everything pieced together perfectly. The story revolves around Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) who suffers from short term memory loss and therefore cannot make new memories from any time after his wife's death, and his attack. He results to photographs, notes that he writes to himself, and tattoos to direct him in the right direction everyday, he conditions himself to remember. This storyline right away is something I have never seen in a movie before, already making it an original film. The characters are all very hard to read, and throughout the film, and for some, after the film, you do not know who to trust. The characters all have their own motives and it was extremely entertaining to see them all unfold. I was impressed with the acting throughout, especially Guy Pearce. The other characters such as Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie Ann Moss) seem to be just as complicated as Leonard in their own ways, and they each question eachothers motives throughout the film. I really enjoyed watching the colored scenes, which were going backwards in time, and the black and white scenes, which were running chronologically collide at the end (or beginning depending on how you look at it). I love films that keep you thinking even after you've watched them, and have subjects open for debate because it gets your mind to think while watching. I must admit, I'm not exactly sure what film noir tactics are used in this film, the most obvious one that I can think of is the universal fact in film noir that the protaganist is doomed from the beginning. I definetly think that Leonard is doomed and he does not want to admit it. Like Teddy said, we all lie to ourselves to be happy.
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