Strange yet Captivating

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2007)

It's a movie bout a person who suffers from Short Term memory.
This is one of those movies that made you think so hard just to understand the movie. An unpleasant movie as I watch it for the very first time. If you have a great ability to remember things you've seen and heard, you'd be able to understand it the very 1st time you watched it and then this will probably be just an average movie. But if you have a bad memory, though maybe not as bad as Leonard's(Pearce) memory, at first you'd find it hard to understand. So you'd probably watch it twice. The plot is backwards so it's confusing. You have to connect the start of his 15 minutes latest memory-which has passed 'bout 15 minutes- to the end of his 2nd latest 15 minutes, which is shown about 15 minutes after his latest memory. It's hard to put the pieces together. You'd probably watch it three times to enjoy it. At first it's unpleasant and it's not something you'd immediately like. But as you watch it for the 2nd or 3rd time, you find yourself enjoying thinking bout the movie, putting the fragments of his memory. And every fragment is great. Every 15 minutes of his memory has a feeling and also an objective. It help you dive into Leonard's memory (one that he can never remember). The final part, his last memory that we dive into is shocking. That he is never to remember any of the things he had done is good as it is bad for Leonard. In one hand, he will never be satisfied cause he will never remember even if he had succeed. In the other hand, it is the drive of vengeance that gave meaning to his life in his unusual life. This is a movie that - not only explained a disease but also - made us feel the feelings and of an ill character.
It's a great movie. The very 1st day I got it, I watched it 3 times.
Nolan is an unique director with unique films, he did a great job.