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Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2001)

Hitchcock on suspense: Show the audience something which the characters cannot see, say a bomb under a table, and then make the audience agonize over the predicament until it is resolved. Nolan on suspense: Show the explosion, show the characters responding, and then have the audience agonize over how or why the bomb got there. The progression of suspense is successfully reversed in "Memento."