an opinion that will not be forgotten (Memento (DVD))

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Product:	Memento (DVD)
Date:	19/04/01 (1 review reads)
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This film is directed by Christopher Nolan
It stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
The film length is 113 Mins
It certified as a 15

For a film like Memento, video is a court of appeal. Limited distribution may have strangled its box office prospects at the start but this ingenious thriller should win a new lease of life as a word-of-mouth cult classic. Provided, that is, you don't attempt to watch it with a few beers and half-a-dozen noisy mates.

Guy Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator hunting for the man who murdered his wife. Problem is, the same man gave him a head injury that's left him with serious short-term memory loss, so he has to piece his mission together from Polaroid’s and notes and try to figure out whether waitress Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) and oily cop Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) are friends or enemies.

Writer-director Christopher Nolan exercises the audience's memories as the chronology
runs backwards, showing the preceding events that Leonard has just forgotten. And then there are the multiple flashbacks. Sound confusing? Amazingly, it isn't. Nolan constructs the entire piece like an intricate puzzle that gradually unfolds
to reveal all, demanding your concentration but also rewarding it with a gripping momentum and a breathtaking denouement.

Plotted, edited and acted to perfection, Memento is, on its own terms, flawless. If you're sick of having Hollywood insult your intelligence, here's the antidote.

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