Memento imdb

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Memento imdb

A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. Leonard Shelby : [running] OK, so what am I doing? Leonard Shelby : Oh, I'm chasing this guy. Leonard Shelby : No Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Memento R 1h 53m. Play trailer Mystery Thriller. Director Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan Jonathan Nolan.

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Sign In. Memento Hide Spoilers. This unique and well-crafted tale is a top-notch thriller packed with suspense, excellent characterisation, and a style of story-telling which means the viewer has to use his or her brain for a change. Unsurprisingly it seems to have been ignored by the mainstream crowd, but in any case it's one of the best if not THE best films of Guy Pearce is outstanding in the leading role of Leonard, a man who has developed a short-term memory loss syndrome since a horrific accident which means he cannot remember anything for longer than twenty minute intervals.

One particularly annoying cinema conversation point is when people refer to the structure of Christopher Nolan 's Memento as "a gimmick. It gets your attention, but, by its very nature, has no payoff. If Nolan dressed Guy Pearce in a chicken costume for the entirety of the movie and never explained it, that would be a gimmick. However, the reverse chronology of Memento is essential to its power because it's the only way to put the audience in the mindset of its brain-damaged detective , Leonard Shelby Pearce, not wearing a chicken costume. This unique structure gives Memento a powerful hook, as Nolan is able to brilliantly intersect time, identity, and memory into his finest feature. A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. Memento 's story follows Leonard Shelby, who has short-term memory loss following a horrific break-in at his house in which his wife was raped and murdered. In the incident, Leonard was dealt a severe blow to the head which gave him his condition. He has since been chasing the guy who did it, but his search is complicated by the fact that he can't make new memories since the accident. So, Leonard convinces himself that through conditioning, he can be disciplined enough to find vengeance.

Memento imdb

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Jump to Summaries 6 Synopsis 1 Edit. A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time. A memory inside a memory, Memento is a complicated head spinning adventure.

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And that can only be done with extensive internet research. This is a movie that gets in your head and will not get out until you figure it all out. Jimmy Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Stephanie Searson Acting is solid across the board, as is the writing, directing, etc. Jankis Thomas Lennon Leonard agrees to meet the caller in the motel lobby. Old Joe 6 February Fidlow Efrain Figueroa Memento is one of those pictures that will have you sitting in the theater after the lights come up so you can talk to everyone else about what they thought of the movie. Featured review. He asks the escort to leave.

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The first moments of Memento see an assassination played in reverse, as a bullet — bloodied and scorched — propels itself out of a man's skull and back into its chamber. It was the simplest way for director Christopher Nolan to acclimatise his audience to the inside of his protagonist's head.

Memory's not perfect. In the end there are no definitive answers. Videos 6. Color Color. Guy is, but he's of the rather simple kind, who thinks he plays a character. Every now and then, an original concepts gets turned into an highly original movie. Four Stars! United States. The story line was cool and there was a lot of mind bending moments that made you think but I just think this movie could've been redone and been better than it ended up being. I felt the movie lost your attention and just lacked an overall synergy. But that wasn't a cheap trick to make the movie more "intelectual", it was its strength. See the gallery. Maybe in the next film.