Memento
In my opinion,
Memento was a good movie. I usually
enjoy mysteries, so I really enjoyed trying to figure out what was going on and
what would happen next. The backward, flashback-like format was very confusing,
but this just made it more fun to try and predict things. It was so engaging
that it bothered me to have to wait a day until I could figure out what was going to
happen. I love stories, whether books or movies, that make you think, and understanding Memento took a lot of brainpower. The
idea of the film was also great. Having a guy that can’t remember events from
just minutes ago was really cool and allowed for all sorts of interesting
scenes. There were hilarious scenes like when the hotel manager tells the
protagonist, Leonard, that he is charging him for two rooms because he won’t
remember anyways, and intense scenes like when Natalie screams insults at
Leonard but he can’t find anything to write it down with so he forgets and
kills Dodd for her.
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The movie’s story may be disturbing, confusing, and violent
but it certainly isn’t boring. Another great aspect was the twist ending of
Leonard actually having lied to himself to go after Teddy, and the explanation that he had killed
his own wife. I was not at all expecting that so it made me rethink the whole movie.
I love endings that mess up everything you thought before. It was very exciting
and afterwards I wanted to go through the whole movie again to pick out all of
the clues leading to the truth. Overall I thought Memento was a wonderful
mystery movie with a great plot and unexpected finale.
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