Memento narration is impressive

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2005)

Memento is a movie 'exemplar'im its narration style. It just goes backwards....in accordance with what Godard has told about film making..'Film should have a beginning, a middle part and an end, but not necessarily in that order'.... Here the narration technique is quite innovative as it begins where the film should end. But that's the only thing innovative in the plot. So when you see it for the first time you are enchanted, but once you see it it loses all the charm. The story is all about one man's (Lenny) paranoia about his own self. He kills his own wife through overdose of insulin, then he creates his own world of characters and figures to justify his own deeds. The Samm jenkins character is his own creation to justify his wife's murder. So each and every move he does after his wife's death is completely created from his own whims and fancies. So all in all this movie deserves attention in the manner in which it is narrated. In the end you realise that oh! mate, deja vu .........