another puzzle-movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2003)

This movie is exactly like a puzzle. It is narrated section by section, but the time order of the sections are reversed, so you know the last thing first, and the first thing last. You keep wondering what the hell has happened. Technically it is great. It is like an experiment. In the beginning there is a section shown reversed, you may ask what if the whole movie shown reversed, then the movie answers the question itself.
Guy Pearce (LA Confidential) played a guy who has no short-term memory (forget things after several minutes). Carrie-Ann Moss (Trinity of The Matrix) played a bitch. Both give very strong performance.

The movie has some philosophical implications about human nature. It has some common points with Dark City, The Usual Suspects, Rosamon, Waking Life, eXistenZ, The Matrix and Vanilla Sky, which all blend reality with non-reality and are all concerned with the question "what is real" or "what makes a person a person".
Without memory we are not the person we were.
Guy Pearce sets up objects for himself, otherwise he loses meaning of life. How about others?
The movie also described a world that is "so damn mean". It is multi-layered.