Plays out like a never ending real-life nightmare

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2013)

They say that time heals but Leonard, our protagonist, asks, "How am I supposed to heal if I can't feel time"? It was a difficult concept to grasp but, as we've come to appreciate Director Christopher Nolan & writer Emma Thomas' work, we can't wait to watch again for more will be revealed. The Nolan movie experience certainly requires some atypical viewer adjustments. We are always shown what we need to know, but as with "The Prestige" we really don't want to see it. Their formula here combines loss of a spouse with a haunting guilt of culpability. The staggered murder investigation twists are presented through our protagonists' frustrating lack of short term memory. Memento has an artsy look yet an unmistakably gritty feel. Sequenced just as memory occurs, backwards, and broken up by black and white monologue explanation shorts, pacing is smart and the characters are not to be trusted.A film with an overlying aura of a high class guy in a low class existence