Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Film Review - Memento

Memento


Memento is American film that was made in 2000 and it is a psychological thriller and Neo - Noir film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia.

Memento is a straightforward revenge flick with Pearce's tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. although this plot comes with an ingenious twist, brain damage Pearce sustained during the attack has left him with the memory of a goldfish. thus it leads to Pearce forgetting conversations he had two minutes age. in addition Pearce doesn't know if the man sitting next to him is his friend or enemy. furthermore Pearce's confusion intensifies when he gets caught up with drug dealers, and they abuse his condition. he's develops a system which is cataloguing events and characters from his investigations with Polaroids, charts and tattoos which allows for repeated exposure of the Pearce torso) but these are just susceptible to manipulation, and finding the real killer becomes increasingly tricky.

My Reason
Memento relates to my film because my film is also about a man losing control of himself and that his wife gets beaten up by some other man. I choose Memento as a close link to my film due to both man having some kind of illness that makes then lose their memories.
lastly in our film we make the male character have a psychological illness but in Memento the man is becoming psychological ill due to having a short-term memory.

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