Review I wrote for college, contains no spoilers :-)

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2012)

Memento has become one of the most well known popular films of its genre, and its not hard to see why. Calling it a convoluted and labyrinthine thriller would be an understatement. This film is sleek, and you can even see that by the way Leonard dresses in a beige cool suit with a fancy sports car, but with the twist of him living in a dingy motel. Set around a dark story about a man with short term memory loss, hunting around trying to find the man who murdered and raped his wife, it contrasts with small quirky jokes. The narrative throws people off track by its order, of going backwards and forwards at the same time, then meeting at the beginning of the story, at the end of the film. This film does not need a complex mind to understand but it can help. You are in the brain of Leonard and getting told the story from him, but how are you meant to get the right story, if the narrators brain is unreliable? Christopher Nolans "memento" is a unique masterpiece which will keep you on the edge and puzzling what to believe.