My favorite movie - ever !!

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2006)

I saw Memento at the premiere at Venice Film Festival in 2000. I always liked independent films because the low budget and the will-to-do typical of young cinematographers is often bewildering. In Memento these peculiarities catch the spectators towards a mind-blowing labyrinth, fitter to a puzzle-master than common people. The editing is (I suppose) unique in cinema history and fortunately very little directors tried to double this trick for their movies; nevertheless, on the other hand, the stratagem of short-term memory was abused in 2000s' cinema and that's a pity.
Carrie-Ann Moss is a gem. Her character Natalie is a mine of perfidy; her solely eyes sting as needles and show how failing can be a friendship (Teddy and the porter too !!), taking easily advantage from a weak person. How many times, in real life, did we feel like Lenny, even without his "incident" ?
You need at least two or three re-runs to understand it, nobody can do it with less, but that's not an handicap, it's such a motivation to sketch out a conversation between supporters/detractors and "what really happened". Thouhgt Nolan in an interview said that story is terribly simple, I suppose he said it as a provocation because everybody can prove it's not like that (Jimmy for example, the connection of Teddy and Lenny before...etc).
A pearl in cinema art.