This movie hurt my brain to watch! Some incredible story telling but I think this movie was just an excuse for Guy Pierce to have his shirt off 90% of the time. Thanks for watching! Have a great day! :)
@baronvg
Жыл бұрын
When this movie came out on special edition DVD, there was an Easter Egg through the menu that let you watch the movie in chronological order. This is a movie that makes more and more sense the more you watch it.
@89Awww
Жыл бұрын
Whenever people ask me for movie recommendations I *always* suggest Memento first. I don't give away any details about the story but I explain the structure of the film because that's more important. The first scene is the end of the story and the second scene is the beginning of the story. The film zigzags back and forth between the monochromatic first half and the colored second half with the monochromatic scenes going forward and the colored scenes going backward until the end of the film, which is the middle of the story, where the last monochromatic scene becomes the first colored scene. That explanation alone is enough to get people intrigued, confused and excited about Memento. I love watching KZitem reactions to Memento because they are how I imagine my friends and coworkers seeing it!!
@ym10up
Жыл бұрын
When you think about it, the actual footage for this film is very short. It's the editing that made it into a full length solution to a complex puzzle.
@blakerh
Жыл бұрын
One of the best movies! Great reaction. Have you seen The Prestige? Another Nolan masterpiece.
@DamonDroop
Жыл бұрын
The scenes in B/W are in chronological order and the color scenes are backwards. The two sequencesmeet in the climax of the movie at what is actually the narrative midpoint of the movie. Loved the reaction btw
@firebird7479
Жыл бұрын
Guy Pearce is a legend in Australia where he's an alumni of the long running soap opera "Neighbours" and the popular TV series "Jack Irish". If you're looking for another film with Guy Pearce, check out "L.A. Confidential".
@shainewhite2781
Жыл бұрын
A crazy psychological thriller film from start to finish!
@maximillianosaben
Жыл бұрын
Christopher Nolan. Top tier.
@StreetHierarchy
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget about Jonathan. He came up with the whole concept in a short story. 🇺🇸
@jondbm
Жыл бұрын
I thought your editing had messed up then realised what you were doing with the intro, very clever!
@Esco33
Жыл бұрын
Chris Nolan's very first film was FOLLOWING (1998).
@paul8926
Жыл бұрын
This film is a mind set, it’s best to take a second viewing. Otherwise, you’ll freak-out !
@auntvesuvi3872
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Oliver! ⏪ I vividly recall seeing this at the cinema in Canal Place Mall on the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. #RolyPolyOllie #ChristopherNolan #Memento #Memento2000
@NintendoCapriSun
Жыл бұрын
Used to watch this movie in the background while I played on the computer way back when. Great times, even if we didn't have A/C and despite what they say about Wisconsin winters, the summers can get quite humid. Glad ya liked it!
@spinin1251
6 ай бұрын
Nice intro. I caught what you were doing. The transition from B&W to color happens when the forward moving B&W segments merge with the backward moving color segments in what is chronologically the middle part of the story arc. The idea of the segmented and backwards moving scenes also puts us in a similar position as Lenny. It's as if we have no short term memory and with the start of each scene we have to try and remember what was happening before, where we left off, and where we might be going. And as the movie progresses, we have to put the pieces together and be an investigator just like Lenny. We are in his shoes, until of course we realize what he's been doing all along, which is inventing new leads to keep giving himself new reasons to continue pursuing revenge. Revenge which is also ultimately pointless since Lenny was the one that was "Sammy." Teddy appears to be a dirty cop. He seems to have been using Lenny and his condition to help him take out drug dealers and possibly even help him recover money. It seems that he has been benefitting off of Lenny. Natalie wanted to get revenge against Lenny when she found out that he had done something to her drug-dealer boyfriend Jimmy. She wasn't a very clean character. Once she found out more about Lenny's condition, she used him to get rid of Dodd. And once she learned more about Teddy and the whole story, she guided Lenny again to help lead him after Teddy, though he was already going in that direction. So in the end she helped him get rid of Teddy, while he helped her get rid of Dodd, and also killed her boyfriend Jimmy. In the end, he took out two drug-dealers and a dirty cop. Does the end justify the means? And throughout this, she did also eventually start to feel sympathy for Lenny, his condition and his story. Given that he wasn't entirely responsible for what he had done to her boyfriend, and even if he was, she also got over that and probably did start to feel some sort of affection for Lenny, this pretty unique character. It's quite possible that after he took out Teddy, in what was the last thing that happened in the story that we know, these two actually got together.
@ym10up
Жыл бұрын
This movie left me in a certain state of mind, a bit confused, paranoid, and disconnected from the real world. It messed with my head a little. Other films that left me feeling like that are The Butterfly Effect and The Game. Took me a while to snap back to normal.
@steved1135
Жыл бұрын
Right on. yet another, early, example of the genius of Christopher Nolan. Damn...
@lordofchaosinc.261
Жыл бұрын
Also watched this as a double feature movie back in the days. Pretty sure it was only the "B-movie" but ended up being the better one. Of course I only understood half of it. Makes you think about how memories make you who you are really are and without them time and life stops for you.
@NoelleMar
Жыл бұрын
(SPOILERS for the movie) One of my favorites. I understand feeling disconnected or underwhelmed even when you objectively think a movie is well-done. I was super invested in this, but a little thriller where every character including the protagonist is a psychological mystery is very much my type. Lenny, and frankly all the other characters, are morally ambiguous, and that’s putting it nicely. He’s quite… cold and arrogant in a way, at least looking back after the reveal at the end. You realize he truly isn’t a good person, and no one else is either. Natalie, Teddy, and many others take advantage of and mock him. And then his ultimate user and abuser is himself! I think a number of your questions would be at least somewhat answered upon rewatching. (I still discover new things, or rediscover things I’d forgotten lol.) Natalie was a horrible person (fantastic acting by Carrie Ann Moss, and everyone else), but… her fury makes more sense when you realize this guy killed her lover, stole his car, took his clothes, and walked into her bar.
@rxtsec1
Жыл бұрын
The scene where lenny is in the hospital is the biggest clue. His wife survived the incident but since he couldn't remember he thought she died. He killed her himself giving her to much insulin. She was depressed he couldn't remember her & thought she could fix him believing he would remember and not give her the shot but he did & she died of a overdose. How he escapes the mental Institution we will never know but when he does Teddy led him to the guy who violated him & his wife & he kills him believing he was the one that killed his wife not knowing he only injured her. Since he doesn't remember He still believes he has to kill someone so teddy uses him to kill whoever he wants but it eventually backfires on him because Lenny leaves clues for himself to Kill Teddy.
@cashflowhustles
Жыл бұрын
I see you beat me to it. I just commented and basically said the same thing that you just said right here. This movie is absolutely AMAZING and I recommend that it's MANDATORY to view this movie twice. Just my opinion.
@SEOshogun
10 ай бұрын
What I love about this movie is that Lenny can make memories since his accident. And he can also choose to forget. Otherwise, how would he know he had a condition, at all? How could he retain that he has this memory problem? We saw him get the injury at the time of his wife's assault. He should gain consciousness in a fit of rage and grief and panic, ready to call the police. Not a steely resolve to find and kill the person who just now murdered his wife. That shift could only happen with the passage of time.
@Огурчик-ж1у
7 ай бұрын
He remembers about his condition because he "learned" it through repetition, just like he "learned" that Sammy had his own wife and memory issue.
@allyallyorange
Жыл бұрын
This movie is soooooo good man! Glad you got to it
@StreetHierarchy
Жыл бұрын
This movie is kind of the same as and the opposite of Total Recall. Total Recall is more like The Bourne Identity.
@TangentOmega
Жыл бұрын
I believe the color cuts move forward in time and the bw move backwards. Takes several views to get it. It's still mentally exhausting.
@rxtsec1
Жыл бұрын
Have you seen Insomnia by Christopher Nolan???
@bmatt2626
Жыл бұрын
If you want to go nuts, look for continuity errors. :P
@cashflowhustles
Жыл бұрын
You gotta watch this movie TWICE. You will automatically miss certain things with just one viewing. I could tell by the way you explained it that you missed certain things. This movie HAS to be seen TWICE IMO. But that's just my take. If a person doesn't want to watch this twice that's on them. And your complaint about Character Development and Connection? This movie is not ABOUT Character it's about STORY AND PLOT. That's why you have to see this twice for story DETAIL and not Character Connection. This movie is brilliantly WRITTEN not because of the character connection but the STORY and its non linear complexity including several twists.
@spinin1251
6 ай бұрын
I disagree. I think there is quite a bit that this movie reveals about the characters if you pay attention or rewatch it. It's just that the story and editing force people to focus on that during the first viewing, and even during repeated viewings. For example, Teddy is possibly a dirty cop that has been using Lenny to help him take out drug-dealers. Throughout the movie, Lenny takes out a drug-dealer (Jimmy) and Teddy (a dirty opportunistic cop) and gets rid of Dodd, another criminal. Maybe they all got what was coming to them. Maybe what Lenny is doing, while it is very self-servicing, is also a little bit of street justice, and is also helping him get rid of people like Teddy, who latched onto him, and Dodd, who poses a threat to Natalie. And with the way things left off with Natalie, who was at first using Lenny as well, it's possible that there could be a bond between them there as well after all the dust settles. Now that Teddy, Dodd, and Jimmy are out of the picture, perhaps Lenny finds a new direction and actually reconnects with Natalie.
@cashflowhustles
6 ай бұрын
@spinin1251 Other than Teddy and to a much lesser degree Natalie we get very little character depth or development from anyone else in the film. They become characters in the murder mystery but the point of the mystery is to SOLVE the mystery. I love movies or shows with great character development but because of the complexities and twists and turns in this plot character is diminished IMO because of the plot complexities and even multiple interpretations on exactly what happened.
Пікірлер: 33