Classic in film made, unforgettable in story told

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2011)

Classic in film made, unforgettable in story told. It's normal if you don't get the point at first time watching it, but if you do, besides that you're smart, I would totally vote for the excellent achievement the director did.
This is a text book in film editing, and for those who wants to break ordinary time line, there is no better demonstration than this. Compared with Pulp Fiction or Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind which are both great movies of all time, the model that Memento established was more than its art of editing. Since this is a mystery movie, there won't be as much pleasure if we see the movie too clearly! Therefore, the complicated way of film editing really leveled up the unsolved problems which made the audiences wonder all the time until the end.
In fact, the process to reason the story is parallel to the missing part of each chapter which was played backwards, and with the disease the male leading role had, every flash moment before the missing parts make the audiences go through the same experiences as the male leading role did. The ambition is not satisfied with only one narrative method, so there appeared two different time lines in the movie which are separated by their colors. As the movie approached the end, two time lines came to an intersection, and the mystery was finally solved at that time. The most genius and impressive point is that at the forwards narrative time line, the leading actor mainly talked about the past story and that really confused the audiences about the real story that was going on!
Not only the form of the movie impressed me, but also the humanity that occurred after things he had gone through and the problem he had to deal with. How to live a life without knowing anything happened to you? Maybe the best way is to ignore the fact and create one for your own sake like the role did. Sometimes, it is more dangerous to know than to forget!