Memento Full and early
Added 2023-06-09 15:02:05 +0000 UTCComments
Wow I never heard of “Following” and always thought Memento was his first film. Thanks for the info. I’m excited to watch that now :)
Robert Healy
2023-06-22 07:30:39 +0000 UTCYou are so nerdy, it's sexy :D Btw. in the last scene when we see him with his wife the place on his left chest has the tattoo "I've done it".
KaffeeKind
2023-06-21 22:22:13 +0000 UTCI mean it was also only Nolan's second film. And I have love Nolan, but I also haven't watched Following yet :D
KaffeeKind
2023-06-21 22:15:53 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favorite films (super impactful to me in it's themes, anyhow). It takes at least a second watching but it's only rewatchable until you put the storyline together and more or less figure it out. The themes of memories, perception, motivations and self deception are powerful. The genius is Nolan cuts the scenes together in this disjointed order to give us the disoriented perception of the protagonist Leonard. There are special editions out there that join everything together in chronological order but that's kinda cheating and ruins the directors intent. Hint: note the alternating between color scenes and black and white scenes* *the black and white scenes are the FIRST half of the story (within the movie) moving FORWARD in time. The color scenes are the SECOND half of the story moving BACKWARD in time. The movie starts with a scene from the end of the story and then the beginning of the story and alternates until the movie ends (at the middle of the story). How trustworthy are our memories really and how do we deceive ourselves to deal with loss and trauma and to find motivation to go on? This drives our perception of events and the world, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others, and form our purpose(s). It's not so straightforward as we might hope.
Roegwon
2023-06-19 01:59:30 +0000 UTCAlso, here is a comedic explanation of the film by a now-defunct (closed) youtube channel where they pretend an alien finds a decimated earth and digs up films and tries to explain us by the leftover films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2GE-XpaJw
Mr. Avatar
2023-06-16 08:36:31 +0000 UTCBy the way, here's a video of how Polaroid is pronounced, but I think we should start a petition to say it the way you said it, because it sounds so much better your way! 👍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mJDaWCvBs
Mr. Avatar
2023-06-16 08:28:22 +0000 UTCThis was a great reaction, you were locked in the entire time even though you were confused 😂 It's a very complex movie. Telling the story backwards was genius, we were put into the main character's shoes of not knowing what's going on for most of the movie. And yes, watching it a second time will clear things up for sure but you have great theories. I think everything Teddy said in the end was true except for not admitting that he was also using Lenny. He definitely did tell him the truth about Natalie.
Lela Amboko
2023-06-15 06:13:06 +0000 UTCNolan explains in 1min the timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8AJg3EFOc
Z
2023-06-11 20:28:36 +0000 UTCI liked this one Biss. You have a great eye for details. You noticed that Teddy was so interested in Leonard's car without knowing it's because the money is in there, and that his car has the license plate, and it was great watching you put the pieces together. To me the movie is much sadder and even frightening when rewatched. I feel it's presented as romantic but is an unsentimental look at mental illness. Leonard is abused by everybody in the movie, and whether crazy or permanently injured, is a dangerous person. The scenes when he is talking on the phone, or remembering his wife show that when he has somebody to talk to, when he focuses on good things in his life, he can calm down and be okay, even reachable, but when alone he regresses to pain, anger, resentment, guilt and paranoia which makes him susceptible to lashing out. The homemade tattoos are really self-mutilation, akin to somebody cutting themselves. For what it's worth, I think him remembering his wife in the diner with Natalie is the best sequence. I believe those flashes are memories after his injury. At 21:30 in your reaction he says, "How much you hate the person who took them away," and the camera is pointed at her face. The look on her face is as though she is looking at a stranger. She doesn't know who he is anymore, and his dialogue is mirrored in her eyes. And simultaneously, he is saying that he hates himself for accidentally killing her, while also hating her for making him do it. Or maybe I'm the schizophrenic.
Nate Wilson
2023-06-10 20:09:34 +0000 UTCThis was the first Nolan film I ever watched and I've always really enjoyed it. It's a 4 or 4.5 out of 5 for me.
Robert Healy
2023-06-10 19:03:54 +0000 UTCBiss you are a nerd and I love it
Robert Healy
2023-06-10 18:41:16 +0000 UTCI walked out on it when it first hit theaters I just couldn't put up with the constant stopping. On a good note I finally finished the entire movie decades later
Michael Aalgaard
2023-06-10 16:17:11 +0000 UTCI have tried to watch this movie a couple of times before, but I just can't. I just find it annoying. Sorry. Maybe someday I'll make it through the whole thing. Until then 1.5 out of 5
Andrew Zachman
2023-06-10 11:57:27 +0000 UTCThis was my first time watching. Here is what I think. I think Leonard accidentally killed his wife with an insulin overdose. He ended up getting investigated to see if he a) should be charged with killing her and b) whether he should get the life insurance money. He may have been in the beginning phase of mental illness when he killed his wife, so he gets cleared of murder, because the cops are convinced it was an a cidental overdose and there were no intruders or evidence of foul play, but he doesn't get the insurance money because the insurance company thinks the whole memory thing is a scam. Teddy is a cop, maybe one of the cops that investigated Leonard, but he is dirty. Teddy uses Leonard to help with his drug deals, and Dodd is the dealer. Leonard makes up the whole intruder thing in his mind to assuage his guilt, and Teddy feeds it. Leonard is a perfect patsy. He will walk into fire because he thinks he is on a mission, and he can't be a snitch if he gets caught because he can't remember anything. The guy he kills at the end is the buyer on a drug deal, and he is Natalie's man. That's why she knows the car and the suit. She knows Leonard has killed her man, probably knows Teddy got Leonard to do it, and she convinces Leonard that Teddy is John C, something that Leonard has already convinced himself of. Natalie got all the Teddy documents because Leonard had already told her about the licence plate, or saw the tattoo, and she just filled in the information on Teddy that Leonard already wanted but had forgotten. There might not have even been a Sammy.
Bandmaidfanatl
2023-06-10 05:49:05 +0000 UTCI didn't watch it until now and I didn't know both most hated characters of Matrix were in it, Trinity and Cipher, and the CSI wife. I have no clue who did what and what's real and what is planted memory. if you figure it out, let me know
Sven
2023-06-10 01:25:12 +0000 UTCI found the movie extremely disappointing. I walked out on the movie less then halfway through it because of all the stopping and restarting. Having watched your reaction I actually finished the entire movie and the movie only got worse sorry. But I loved your reaction and your reaction is the only reason I finished the movie. I look forward to your next reaction.
Michael Aalgaard
2023-06-09 17:24:54 +0000 UTC
