This is the film that gave us Chris Nolan in full artistic capacity.

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2015)

Memento is the kind of indie film which you wouldn't think could have appeal to a general audience, but surprisingly this one does, and film-goers are still discovering its brilliance today. In light of Christopher Nolan breaking onto the Hollywood scene with The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and last year's Interstellar, Memento still holds its own ground very firmly and still has strong footing.
How can this film be separated from Nolan's other films? For one thing this is a post-modernist neo-noir movie, and quite the psychological kind, which is made all the more watchable by Guy Pearce's performance as Leonard Shelby, a man out to avenge his wife's death. It sounds simple, but the plot spools into a really complicated case of mystery, secrecy and femme-fatale seduction.
Memento is the film that showed the world Chris Nolan is a man who visually questions things in life, and in the most subtle yet cinematically clear scope which speaks truly of ourselves, and our condition. This film is no exception to that exploration.
Christopher Nolan is one of the cinema greats of our time, and this was the beginning of his career in the American film industry, and making history.