Memento (DVD)

Memento is the story of a man with short term memory loss, who can remember his past up until the traumatic event where he and his wife are attacked but is unable to make any new memories. This means he can not remember anything, including what he is doing, for longer than several minutes at a time. The film is the story of this mans mission to avenge a man he knows only as John G who he has limited information about who we know from one of his many tattoos; raped and murdered his wife. It also deals with the way Leonard has to live in order to cope with his condition, which involves a lot of notes, tatoos and photographs to remind himself of things. The main ...  Read the complete review

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) is a man with an unusual brain defect - he has no short term memory and is unable to remember things for more than a few minutes including people, names, faces and actions. This film follows Leonard as he searches for a man who raped and killed his wife and is the reason for his condition - the infamous John G. The most interesting thing about this film is it's sequence of events as essentially, it's backwards. The opening sequence shows what happens at the end of Leonard's search and goes back from there. At first, I did think that this may be a bit pointless as you essentially know the ending within the first two minutes. ...  Read the complete review

A few years ago i started watching this film, however half way through i was interupted and was forced to stop watching. It was in the sale for £5 and i thought i'd give it another go. Im glad i did. This is a clever film. It must have been difficult to film, but it was worth it. This film is about a man with a very odd conditition where he has no short term memory. He knows who he is, and can remember everything up to the point of an incedent (you can find out what when you watch the film). Throughout the film he is trying to find out what happened. Now this is one clever film where everything happens backwards. its a good idea, and makes for fun ...  Read the complete review

Call me dumb if you like but I don't understand this film at all. Films are to be enjoyed not puzzles to solve, mind you many will disagree with me on this. Memento is a psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby and insurance agent with big problems. Shelby wakes up in a motel room oblivious to the reason why he is there. He suffers from chronic amnesia; solution for this problem is for him to write notes as things happen because in very short time frame he forgets everything. He writes messages on his body and on the photo he takes. A character keeps propping up, a woman is dead ...  Read the complete review

Amid a morass of conventional Hollywood blockbusters all clones of each other featuring inane predictable plots, wasteful special effects and below average acting it is refreshing to think that every so often a filmmaker has the balls to come up with something different and make it into a huge commercial success. Memento is one such film. PLOT Essentially this is about revenge Leonard Shelby an insurance investigator is trying to discover who raped and murdered his wife. A hard task in the best of circumstances but Leonard has an extra problem. During the attack he suffered head injuries, which mean that he has lost all his short-term memory. He ...  Read the complete review