Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Memento (2000) (Blu Ray) - 9/10

Memento is such a hard movie to understand that each time I watch it there is just something about the way it's structured that keeps you wanting more and engaged from start to finish. I listened to the commentary track by director Christopher Nolan and was glad to get inside his head to see how he came up with this backwards story and why he chose to give us an unreliable protagonist who by the end we clearly find out is the bad guy. This movie slowly gives us the details that we think are right only to constantly pull the rug out from under as we find out no one's intentions are genuine, something Nolan credits to the acting and script which he went over and over to make sure it could flow straight too. This movie really shows off the editing techniques Nolan likes and the story structure that is a lot different than the Dark Knight which I appreciate more for it's originality.

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