Thursday, September 13, 2007

2001's memento

This is one heck of a good movie ! Imagine, your wife is killed, you got nothing more to live for except for revenge and the fire burning inside of you to hunt down her killer. To put a whole new twist to this time old tale of revenge, your brain can no longer make new memories due to an accident sustained during a tussle with your wife's killer. Christopher Nolan in this noir classic successfully puts us in Guy Pearce's character ( Leonard / Lenny ) and conveys his fears, pain and confusion with scary realism. He does this by turning traditional story telling on it's head by literally telling the whole tale upside down. Carrie Ann Moss is great here as the conniving Natalie who sees a way out of her problems utilizing Leonard's memory problems to her advantage.

For me Nolan, successfully lifts this normal tale of murder, intrigue and revenge up a notch by doing this. This truly makes the movie memorable. I love both the lookout and this movie.

Some short scenes from this classic :



Check out more about this movie at imdb

I say this movie is worth your time and is extremely rewatchable ( watched it about 4 times with different people now ... ) so go ahead ... you won't be disappointed. 9/10

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