Re-edited For My Own Amusement

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2007)

I took a VHS of this film into my editing room and re-edited it backwards, so that it was frontwards, if you get my drift, and watched it a second time, trying to pretend I was seeing it for the first time. It was still visually arresting and the dialog was still sharp and engaging...but it just wasn't the same film and the ending was sort of anticlimactic because you see it coming a mile away. In fact the film becomes frustrating because his memory loss gets very redundant and tiresome very early on.
I am convinced this movie was edited backward because that was the only way this story could be told. It forces the reader to experience what the main character is experiencing, because we don't know any more than he does from one scene to the next. What made my re-edited version so frustrating was that we knew too much and his amnesia came off as just a device to prolong the movie.
Anyway, good experiment. Enjoyed the film immensely the way it was intended to be viewed.