Memento is Christopher Nolan's second film before the Dark Knight Trilogy was probably even thought about. Memento stars Guy Pearce as a man hunting down the person who raped and murdered his wife, which he witnessed before being knocked unconscious and becomes unable to create new memories, having a form of amnesia. The story is told in two different ways. One is in colour, going backwards from the end of the story, and black and white, going from the beginning of the story onwards. In the end, both these will meet at a half point in which everything will conclude and get all screwy with your head. This being a Christopher Nolan movie, I was anxious to see this without a trailer or anything that led me to it except for a quick search on wikipedia of Christoper Nolan's movies. This movie is uniquely brilliant. With the beginning being the fact that this man has already discovered who killed his wife, and THEN going backwards to see how he uncovered this makes more twists and turns then if the movie played from the beginning to the end. The way Christopher Nolan has set out the movie helps to understand a man lost with his own memories, and creating a different approach to characters with the story going backwards instead of forwards. Christopher Nolan has proven he was a great director before The Dark Knight Series, and his brother is a brilliant story teller, having written many of the stories Christopher Nolan has turned into movies. For me, I would give this a 4 out of 5 stars. At the start of the movie it takes some getting used to the backwards and forwards stories, but none the less, still great story telling and directing. The start will become boring, as technically characters are being introduced, but at the same time there stories are ending. You have to expand your mind and keep tabs on certain scenes that don't make sense. A brilliant movie.
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Reon
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