| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Mystery & Suspense |
This is easy, Memento is quite simply one of the best thriller out there. The brilliance of it stands in the originality of the storytelling. The way the movie unfolds is quite superb and make me wanted Memento to keep going for as long as possible, to keep revealing pieces of its intricate maze.
Please give the story a little bit of a chance before you dismiss it out of the first quite ordinary opening. The genre suited this movie probably film noir, with style and panache only seen before in Pulp Fiction. Perhaps short term memory loss has been done before by other film maker, but none of them made it as intriguing as Christopher Nolan. Also Guy Pearce and carrie-Anne Moss have a certain charisma and mystery about them totally supporting the whole plot line.
The technique of starting the movie near the end, then flashing back, then back again also used time and time again namely Fight Club, but Memento takes it to a whole new level. Although the film does remind me of Fincher's violent satire at times, including for the use of a visual twist, it is clearly no clone. Where Fight Club is psycho-political bite, Memento is full paranoia through an extremely complicated yet gripping storyline that requires strenuous attention to the details.
Please give the story a little bit of a chance before you dismiss it out of the first quite ordinary opening. The genre suited this movie probably film noir, with style and panache only seen before in Pulp Fiction. Perhaps short term memory loss has been done before by other film maker, but none of them made it as intriguing as Christopher Nolan. Also Guy Pearce and carrie-Anne Moss have a certain charisma and mystery about them totally supporting the whole plot line.
The technique of starting the movie near the end, then flashing back, then back again also used time and time again namely Fight Club, but Memento takes it to a whole new level. Although the film does remind me of Fincher's violent satire at times, including for the use of a visual twist, it is clearly no clone. Where Fight Club is psycho-political bite, Memento is full paranoia through an extremely complicated yet gripping storyline that requires strenuous attention to the details.
i was pretty impressed with this little gem myself.... :-)
ReplyDeletedefinitely an original the way that it actually tells the story backward as how guy pearce sees it....
the only other movie that use the backward-in-time method of storytelling is "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" (that i know of)... but esotm doesnt have as much thriller element as "memento"...
"the fight club" starts at the end, but the flashback runs from start to end a la normal storytelling method... good movie too still... ;-)
Surely got me very much intrigued as the story disclosed in such extraordinary manner. I was looking eagerly for the next Nolan's work but find it rather dissapointing in Insomnia, just like i was dissapointed with The Panic Room by Fincher. Maybe i should lower my expectations everytime there's a new prodigy director coming on the block :) I know it's pretty hard to come up with such masterpiece.
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