I am back with another movie review. It is another classic film written, and directed by Chistopher Nolan. The film stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano. It is a great look into non-linear story telling.
Memento is about Leonard (Guy Pearce) who has lost his long term memory and can only use his short term memory for only a few hours, to even a few minutes at a time. He can remember up to what made him lose his memory, and before that, but anything after is completely gone. The way he remembers what is going on is he has a few things tattooed on himself, and cares notes with him.
The main idea of the story is Leonard trying to find out what happened to himself that made him lose his memory. The story is told from the end backwards. The movie shows the final scene, and shows the events leading to what happened backwards.
While he is out trying to figure out who killed him, he runs into a few characters. These characters are met at the end of the story and you understand how the characters meet and develop together backwards.
This movie can be found online and is shown backwards, or from the beginning to the end like a normal movie. This way of showing the film takes all the genius out of the way it was made. The non-linear part of the film is its greatest part especially, because of on the first watch you watch a character make a decision without seeing his reasoning. Then after the scene it shows a little bit before, and why characters made any decision. Putting the film backwards was a new way of story telling in films, and shows that movies do not have to follow a basic model to be a great film.
To find out more about the movie on Imdb click below
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/?ref_=nv_sr_7
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