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Memento [2000]
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 | Product Details: Studio: Pathe Distribution Region: 2 Number of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Widescreen Rating:   Sales Rank: 1163 | | Look for similar DVDs by genre: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: Does being different make it special? (22 December 2008)Looks good, promising idea, great reviews, but in the end this is just a plain story told approximately backwards. Typical of most modern films, method and gloss triumph over substance. The moral behind this? If you have a severe memory defficiency, leave the detective work to others. Not in the same league of the classics such as Jacob's Ladder or A Matter of Life and Death, not even close to Donnie Darko! Momento (24 September 2008)This was the film that made me realise how much I love movies. But, I once saw a version of this movie in chronological order and it wrecked it. The brilliance is in the backwards storytelling. Intruiging (22 August 2008)Some films have an intriguing premise but don't deliver on it. Christopher Nolan's Memento delivers in spades! The story of a man searching for his wife's killer but unable to retain any short term memories is obviously intriguing. Nolan adds twists by telling the story in reverse and having our "hero" aid his memory with tatoos and instant photos. By the end of the film the viewer's head is spinning and we don't know what to make of the previous 90 minutes. Thank God for rewind buttons on DVD remotes! The film is about memory. Nolan brilliantly plays with the viewer's own memory. At first we feel sympathy for Leonard, trying to piece together enough information from his disabled memory to get revenge on his wife's murderer. At the conclusion we realise that in the course of the film we may have played tricks on our own memories. Were the assumptions we made in following the story completely wrong? Were our sympathies misplaced? A lot of the film hangs on the performance of Guy Pearce in the main character and he is brilliant. Carrie Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano are also excellent in the main supporting roles. Quite simply, one of the best films of the last ten years. You have to watch it! A bit something and nothing! (22 April 2008)I can't say that I hated or loved this film just something in between. The storyline in itself is actually quite gripping and there are some clever aspects which make you think. All in all when it came to the end though I thought it was a bit disappointing. It seemed to lack the spark of a well executed production. If you can cope with the fact that it's very disjointed by starting at the end and then jumping to the beginning continuously (You'll see what I mean if you hire it), and you have a couple of hours to kill, then by all means hire it. I wouldn't expect a masterpiece however! Don't believe the hype. (02 April 2008)I was very disappointed by Memento to be honest. I'd always been told it was a fantastic movie which needed to be seen to be understood and to be fair that's not quite true. The basic premise is that the main character, after an incident involving the death of his wife, can no longer form new memories and while searching for his wife's killer must tattoo important clues on his body. The only real problem is that if you tried this you'd very quickly run out of skin while this guy manages it with half a dozen very artistic tats and a polaroid camera - but hey thats Hollywood. Oh and the film plays in scenes from end to beginning. It's not fantastic either. You figure out very quickly what's happening, the time jumps become very irritating and only Carrie Anne Moss and her character's devious manipulation of the protagonist saves this otherwise tedious film from a comatose inducing level of boredom. The final decision made by the main character (not to give too much away) is completely unexpected not because it's clever but because it's completely out of character and makes no sense. It raises more questions than it fails to answer. I'll let you decide for yourself but if you must see this film don't believe the hype or you'll be disappointed too. |
