Analytical view

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2006)

We used this movie in my college writing seminar class. It is amazing and worth watching over and over. I notice new things each time. I watched the movie after discussing Hiroshima Mon Amour and the novel "Beloved" in extreme depth. Putting it in the context of trauma and impossible mourning really gave me an entirely new perspective on the movie, which I had previously only watched for entertainment. I thought a lot about how he's defined by his trauma and why he must perpetuate it, and why it doesn't matter who is who. Also, it made me wonder why most of the color scenes are told in reverse order (like, 5,4,3,2,1) but the last two are sequential (5,4,3,1,2). Hm. It's definitely an excellent movie. The screenplay is worth looking at, too. My copy, at least, gives the Nolan brothers' stories of how Memento came to be, and it's funny how different they are. I guess that's the basis of the movie, in a lot of different ways...