sly, sly, sly

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2001)

memento to me is a very sly noir.
guy pearce is even more gorgeous than ever! i think he is now thinner and tanner... uh, it's not the point.
it's sly because it begins from the end, then moves backward to the middle, but never quite to its beginning. as a viewer, i find it imperative to trace back each layer of newly-formed memories in the sequence of presentation. therefore audience has to be clever enough to do the writerly text. whereas all the other commercial films this summer seem to be trying to make audience's brain stop ticking.
what impresses me, as a result, is that this moive invites us to follow up and do our own creation of memory (an action of forging ahead) while moving backward in plots.