Memento (2000) -First watch impression is the story is told in reverse order.This is a substantial oversimplification of the movie's structure ,and that's just one of the surprises that unfolds once you look at the film closely. The film has immense thought behind it, thematically and more.
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In its own weird way, Memento is a tribute to grief. Grief is an emotion largely based on memory, of course. It is one of the brilliant tangential themes that relief from grief itself is dependent on memory and that is one of the many strange emotions Leo feels. Did Sammy kill his wife with insulin? Or did Leo? For Leo to have killed his wife and then have transferred the story onto Sammy (as Teddy claims) would require that Leo remember an event that happened after his accident. Yes, Leo has a quick memory flash of injecting his wife, but it's followed by a repetition of an earlier version of the memory, where he was merely pinching her. So, of course, the injection memory is just the other memory distorted by Teddy's suggestion. Who ends up in the mental hospital? Well, Leo tells us that Sammy ends up there. But Teddy tells us that Leo's nuts, and then there's that flash in which we see Leo himself there. And Nolan,in one of his interviews ,is ambiguous about Leo being an escapee from an asylum. Still, Memento is extraordinary. Here is a film that challenges and demands attention and thought. It does stir up questions and feelings about the most basic issues of how we experience reality. [link] [comments] |
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