great movie (slight spoiler)

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2001)

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce) is a troubled man. On one unfortunate day, his wife is brutally raped and murdered. In the process of trying to save her, he is attacked from behind and bangs his head into a mirror. find and kill the man who raped and murdered his wife. The savage attack gives him brain damage, and he now suffers from a rare and untreatable form of memory loss. He knows who he is and recalls everything up to the crime, but now he can no longer create new memories, meaning he can't remember people he's met, places he's been or things he's done even fifteen minutes ago. To help him exist and find the man responsible for his condition and his wife's death, he makes notes, take photos and get tattoos all over his body for the really important clues he discovers. All of the notes lead to one important mission: FIND HIM AND KILL HIM.
Memento is one of those films that you really have to watch. Like `The Sixth Sense' and `Unbreakable', if you daydream for one second, you are lost and getting back on the Memento highway is hard as hell. Christopher Nolan directs this movie in a way that we all feel like Shelby. Being that he can't retain a memory for a long period of time, he gets confused a lot and that is exactly how the audience feels. How can you solve a crime when you can't remember the clues and even though you have the clues written down, you don't thoroughly understand what they mean? Even though you remember your past, how can you exist in the present when you can't string enough minutes together to create one? That's the foe Shelby struggles against. Nolan creates a movie that is very M. Night Shyamalan in the essence that it exist in the present, flashback to the past, and foreshadows to the future all at the same time. I consider both director's movies to be like those seeing eye pictures. All the parts are there and if you pay attention and watch it, the hidden picture will reveal itself. If you take your eyes away, you have to start over again. This is supported by a statement by Shelby in which he is telling himself to just focus and he will remember a thought longer than he has before.

As for the acting, I didn't have a problem with anyone. Guy Pierce plays the human goldfish character very well. I describe him as a goldfish because a goldfish has a memory span of thirty seconds. So when a goldfish is looking at you, it's seeing you first time every thirty seconds. Never did he give me the impression that he wasn't confused. Carrie Ann Moss (MATRIX) plays yet another well acted pawn in this who did it game. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.