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Memento (2000)

Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Christopher Nolan
Country: USA
Genre: Mystery, Drama

Memento is a film that first came to me when I first started getting serious into films, so naturally I latched onto its stylized non-linear conceptual storytelling style. I remember adding towards the top of my favorite films lists of yesteryear. But then, maybe because I had watched it one too many times, or because I just simply let it slip from my memory as if I were its main character, I let it fall by the wayside and hadn’t watched it for nearly six or seven years.

I was a bit nervous that I wouldn’t take to it’s gimmicks, but I should’ve put all of my worries aside knowing that Mr. Nolan was at the helm, as he directed one of my favorite films in the last ten years (no, not The Dark Knight… 2006’s The Prestige.) That combined with my deep love for film noirs, really made me fall back in love with this film, though I don’t quite find it the masterpiece that I once did. It’s got a great concept, it’s told in a very interesting way with compelling and believable performances. And the ending is handled in a wonderfully non-over-the-top way that makes me want to watch it again as soon as it’s over. I didn’t, but I wanted to.

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