amazingly well thought thru

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2000)

A great movie! Basically about a chap who loses the ability to make sort term memories when he was trying to save his wife from a rape attack. He makes it his mission to find the culprits, but with his memory problems has to rely on notes he made himself, constantly reviewing his notes to work out what is happening and how far he has got in his search.
As he says in the movie we rely on our memories to know who we are, but our memories do sometimes bend the truth.. he tries to see his 'method' as a better way to remember the past thru the unbending reliance on his note taking.
When he is sure of a fact... he tattoo's himself so that he cannot lose that memory.
You go in to the cinema, and after the first 10 minute you understand the plot and think you have 'solved' it. Then a little later on you realise that you must have missed something and start working on a different scenario. This goes on until the end of the film... you come out believing you have a theory as to what happened... but it takes some mulling over to really understand.
Brilliantly acted by Guy Pierce (Mike from Neighbours years ago!!)
I would highly recommend this film... one of the best I've seen in years.