Review of Memento (1967) by Scott G — 02 Feb 2013

Break this movie into 1000 parts and watch each of them separately and I bet you still feel excited. But the beauty of the movie is you don't understand it, if you see it in parts. You must see it atleast 2 times without any break to grasp it on the whole. Bizarre, isn't it? Christopher Nolan has done a remarkable job in using the reverse chronology to perfection. By reversing the order, the spectator is unaware of the preceding events, just like Leonard(short-term memory loss).

Guy Pearce(the lead actor) and Jonathan Nolan(story) also deserve special mention.

I suffered a complete loss of my memory at first, not even a short-term loss. Thankfully, I recovered my memory after watching it 3 times and some googling. But I still have so many doubts to clarify.

Memento is presented in two alternating sequences of scenes; one set of scenes, filmed in black and white, progresses forward, while the second set of scenes are in color and presented in reverse order; the two sequences "meet" at the end of the film, thus overall describing one common story.

I am not gonna reveal the story here. Don't be afraid to see it just because you think: you are not gonna understand it. I guarantee that you gonna have a hell of an experience. After all you never want to miss movies like these, which according to me is one of the Top 10 movies of the decade.

Just watch it in awe and debate later on.