Movie without a memory

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2001)

This is something as unique as a film without a memory. By telling the story backwards, the director subjects the viewer to the same loss of memory suffered by the film´s main protagonist. You have no previously etablished data to understand the different events in their narrative sequence: the data needed to understand one scene establishes itself, at least partially, in the next, and so on. This structure puts everything afloat, everything is destabilized: memory, the Other, nothing is given, nothing is safe. Absolute genius! I know a lot of critics will probably say that this is SO Quentin Tarantino (stupid, boring hack if anyone ever was) or Usual Suspects, but it actually manages to do something more than show of it´s coolness and how smart it is; it is more conceptually and philosophically oriented, in a way similar to for example Alain Resnais - his Providence (1977) being a key point here - and THIS is the the stuff greatness is made of. Fantastic!