the Reason

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2005)

I watched memento just yesterday and it took me two times watching it to understand it...it's a good movie for sure: the first time you think it is just complicated, while the second time you realize it is devastating.we have this poor Leonard who can't assimilate new memories, so his present life depends on his notes, his pictures and his tattoos...OK, this is the general plot, but there's more. First of all we find ourselves trying to understand who is fooling who...is teddy the one? Is Natalie a deceiver? Who knows the truth...we depend on Leonard stuff as well, coz we see everything through his eyes, we perceive everything through his mind where everything is black or white. There's no grey. According to Lenny, Natalie is the good one, and Teddy is the bad one, and this is the same for us for great part of the movie. But in the end everything is upset, and we have to put together different pieces of the same puzzle...In the end nothing really matters who is the real jamesG or johnnyG, if he's been already killed or not. Leonard could have killed all these jGs thousand times...because this is what keeps him alive. Find and kill who raped and murdered his beloved wife is just the only Reason for him to go on living. Again and again. And the cruel fact is that he just see this, he cannot control anything else, so... Natalie becomes a deceiver, but Teddy too is a deceiver. What we come to know is that the deceptive one is always Lenny that is manipulated to solve other people's bad business. I enjoyed the movie very much, because I usually like movies that doesn't give you an explanation at first sight.I prefer movies that unveil things little by little, and memento is one of them. The choice of actors has been right. I found a great and many-sided Carrie-ann moss, and a good Guy Pearce as well playing the determined Leonard. What this movie leave you after the closing credits? I cannot say exactly. it probably leaves a pastiche of feelings and questions that should be, at least, cleared after a second vision of the movie. This is the reason why I advice memento, and why I advice to see it, at least, twice.