Memento

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2011)

Memento is an excellent movie. My favorite in fact. Leonard, the main character, loses his short term memory after attempting to save his wife when she is being raped and murdered in their bathroom by two men. One, Leonard shoots then and there, but the other, John G, gets away. Leonard spends the movie trying to find John G and kill him. This is extremely difficult as he has no short term memory which means he can't remember anything he's done between the incident in the bathroom and now. He even forgets things that happened 10 seconds ago sometimes. The alternating scenes between forward and backwards chronologically gives the viewer the same perspective as Leonard giving us surprises around every corner. Memento is a MUST see. Movie of the century? More like movie of the millennium. A work of true art.