Nerve breaking Amnesia

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2006)

Memento is quite intense. I would also say that it is a pretty challenging film too. this is what I believe to be film noir, dizzying film noir. You got your twist at the end, yes it was a very popular to have a twist at the end of every movie that year. But I enjoyed following the movie through....all the trying to guess stuff. You got a new form of narrative here. You will be pretty exhausted by the end of it. Our main man wears expensive clothes and drives a flash Jaguar around Hopperesque parts of Pasadena and the San Fernando Valley, and yet lives in motel rooms. In voice over this enigma tells us he is hell bent on seeking vengeance the man who raped and killed his wife. But he has another problem, being hit on the head during the incident which haunts him, he suffers a rare form of memory loss. He can remember everything that happened before that but now can only remember and keep up with whats been going on for a few minutes at a time before it deserts him. He often finds himself confused "Ok so.....what am I doing....ah, I'm chasing this guy. Uh-oh, no, he is chasing me. Paranoia and suspense as he takes notes to keep track, especially tattooed on his body as he attempts to piece his identity together each morning.