Memento | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-02-26 01:59:32 +0000 UTCComments
I love how you summarized all his movies
Franklin
2025-03-02 19:01:33 +0000 UTCIt reminds me of the title of that Joan Didion essay: We tell ourselves stories in order to live. So, he is. He needs the story not to be over, so that his life won't be over. I find Nolan a bit too... hermetic? cold? I don't know, I find it difficult to connect to his movies. But I find his unflinchingness and rigor in examining his own obsessions very compelling. I think it's what you said: he wants to live in the delusion, he wants to still have something to look for. It also reminds me of Íñigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, finding himself quite at odds with what to do once he's completed his mission. Nolan seems to me to mull what it means to turn your life into a story, and how lying to yourself is necessary to advance, in all his movies: in Interstellar, humanity is saved by the lie that there was a Plan B; in Inception, storytelling/lies are spun into dreams in order to process information and emotion; in Tenet, the story only makes sense if its exact opposite is also considered; in Oppenheimer, the whole structure is how to make sense of the gap between intentions and outcomes by polishing a story until all the pieces explain each other... I found it a really interesting movie! But cold. I don't know why, I never connect to his movies emotionally, only intellectually. (Although somehow I think he wouldn't mind that it is the case...)
Lola Lirola
2025-02-27 17:26:13 +0000 UTCWatch 1:45:45 - 1:45:50 again...
E.Shelby House
2025-02-27 07:18:34 +0000 UTC
