There is no goof

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2001)

I'm not sure if this is worthy of being #11 on the top 250 list, but it is nevertheless an interesting film and, personally, I'll take a film like this any day over, um, a stupid sequel or remake for the teenybopper audience. At least it aims for some creativity in this post-modern age -- even if it swipes from Seinfield and Fight Club and Usual Suspects et al. If you liked this film, I recommend checking out Jonathan Lethem's book "The Vintage Anthology of Amnesia". It'll make you aware that this film very purposely plays into the idea of introducing a black spot in the text itself -- there's things going on vis-a-vis character relations that aren't entirely cashed out. Which is, of course, fascinating from an amnesia fiction point-of-view. In fact, if people do complain about the contradictions within this film -- I almost thing that these contradictions are *deliberate*. I'm not sure how I feel about them, but I can respect the fact that Christopher Nolan seems to be actually paying homage to an overlooked facet of American fiction -- the amnesic text -- by actually placing blank spots into the text. Which, to me, is intreguing.