great

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2020)

Memento's flashbacks are far more extreme than traditional flashbacks. The opening scene is the equivalent of a normal movie finale: the protagonist shoots the bad guy, but all the shots are shot backwards, such as the falling glasses flying back to the face of the person shot, the pistol jumping off the ground back to the hand of the protagonist, the bullet retracting into the gun chamber, etc. Of course, this technique cannot be applied to the whole film, otherwise who can understand the sound like tape rewind. The film goes back from this refreshing opening scene, paragraph by paragraph, about five minutes at a time, with one or two of the same scenes at the beginning of the first and the end of the second, so that the audience can tie a knot in their heads.