Who am I in a Capitalist world?

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2016)

Memento Who am I in a Capitalist world?
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
You watch Christopher Nolan's Memento like you build a puzzle. In a reverse chronological timeline story, each scene is important to the next, but in this case the next is even more important for you to understand the previous scene. Complicated? Memento presents a three- act structure in which the three acts are cut together, whereas its structure presents two linear timelines running against each other, which are cut together and meet in the middle, separated by the transition from black and white film stock to color. The confusing narrative recalls the tension of our daily lives where we are so involved in our mundane personal world that we forget to ask ourselves what is going on. We got stuck in the past, immobile, without any hopes about the future, forgetting living the present. Memento can be seen as neo film noir when it attempts to re-establish the moods and themes of classic noirs flourished in America in the period of 1941-58. Refashioned for present-day feelings, working as metaphor for a symptom of society's evil. In this context, Memento can be seen as the gloomiest of all noirs because it shows anxiety, pessimism, and suspicion as a result of the tensions and insecurities of our modern time. The problems presented are real and contemporary; they belong to us, our despair regarding the world's future. Who are we? And for what purpose are we here? In a capitalist world where the greed and corruption seems to be engulfing us into a decadent society, it shows us another kind of darkness: the psychological torment where our minds are stolen to the capitalist service.