Clever, dark and distressing

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2015)

That is what we can call the "Nolan effect". Every time I saw a Nolan movie for the first time I was catched by a feeling of anxiety, almost afraid of what could happen, but also amused by the smartness of the story, except for Interstellar, which is to me so far the less violent of Nolan's works.
Memento has all of these things - a smartly delivered plot, with quite mature contents and a deal of distression - at an exponentially higher level than the other movies. Not only the darkest and most bloody to me, but also the most cleverly shown: with the trick of how we see the sujet, we truly see the movie from Leonard Shelby's perspective, although knowing a little more than himself. What I found interesting was also that even if the ending in the Sujet wasn't chronologically the end, it actually did deliver a 'finale' feeling, which is remarkable.
Being the first Nolan film to get some notoriety, it doesn't have stunning views as the others which are covered by the good acting of all the actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss (otherwise seen in 'the Matrix'), Joe Pantoliano and even Stephen Tobolowsky's silent, almost cameo appearance worked well. The music, composed by a composer I never heard before, David Julyan, managed to bring in the right atmosphere.
Homever, remember that even if it has minimal to no gore, this movie is very intense. Some of the flashbacks related to the wife's gruesome murder are disturbing, (MINIMAL SPOILERS BEGIN) and around the middle the plot's on going makes viewers start to expect that Leonard has an even darker backstory that luckily is not what we discover in the movie. (MINIMAL SPOIELRS END) Although also the actual outcome is quite dark. So I suggest a quite deal of courage to watch this movie. Again, this movie is the most intense Nolan movie from his career. On a scale from 1 to 100, If Memento is ranked 100, the dark knight is ranked 45, inception 35, and interstellar 10.