Some of the best movies remain in your mind forever and Memento – Rather ironically – is one of them. If you’ve seen the movie, you know why it’s ironic: This is a movie about serious memory loss.
Memento Is one of my favorite movies, and it streams for free on several networks: Channel 4 in England and Roku channel, Pluto TV, Hoopla, Kanopy and Plex in the USA. Unfortunately, if you are in Australia, where starring actor Guy Pearce is from, you have to pay to see it on Stan.
If you have not seen Memento Still, you’re in a really treat. Here’s why.
It will mess with your mind
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Memento is about memory or rather the lack of it. Guy Pearce plays Leonard, a former insurance investigator, and he has lost his ability to create memories: Not before, things have happened than he forgot all about them. It is probably associated with the violent attack that left him unconscious and killed his wife.
This is not a whodunnit because we watch The Who at the beginning of the movie: This movie starts at the end where Leonard kills a man. What is missing is the rest of it: what and why. And with Leonard’s memory completely shot, it means that this is a kind of unusually gloomy Jordhog Day: Every day Leonard starts with a pure slate and the memorials he has left from the days he can’t remember.
As New York Daily News put it: “Author director Christopher Nolan’s second film is one of the most original and ultimately confusing thought games to reach the screen since the usual suspects.”
It’s beautifully done
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Here is Empire Magazine: “Although Harold Pinter did this in betrayal, this is still something special, imaginative and challenging, Christopher Nolan’s exploration of memory and time playing with storytelling and structure.”
It continues: “The actors do a good job of perceptions, with both [Carrie-Anne] Moss’ enigmatic femme and [Joe] Pantoliano’s impatient sidekick – new for Leonard every time he meets them – swings from friend to enemy and back again. Pearce is remarkably good and keeps this together with an intention blankness across which flicker confusion, frustration, despair and rage. “
It’s totally confusing in a good way
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“The whole thing is pretty confusing,” said New York Magazine (the review is not at the moment online), “But then again, many of the classic movies were noirs.” And Boulder found the weekly the “memorable mind -bending”.
It is definitely a movie that benefits from repeated viewing. “Memento Is one of these puzzles whose pieces click together more tightly with each view, “said Entertainment Weekly.” Fuel for the whole thing is a performance of Guy Pearce that is as indelible as the tattoo ink that covers his body. “
As Time Out wrote: “There is class A work from all affected, especially Pearce, but in the end this is Nolan’s movie. And he delivers, with a revenge.”
