Some of the best films remain in your mind forever, and Memento – Ironically, is one of them. If you saw the film, you will know why it’s ironic: it’s a film about a severe memory loss.
Memento is one of my favorite films, and it is streaming for free on several networks: Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and the Roku channel, Pluto TV, Hoopla, Kanopy and Plex in the United States. Unfortunately, if you are in Australia, from where the main actor Guy Pearce comes, you will have to pay to watch him on Stan.
If you haven’t seen Memento However, you are for a real treat. Here is why.
It will play with your mind
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Memento is a question of memory, or rather of its absence. Guy Pearce plays Leonard, a former insurance investigator, and he lost his ability to make memories: hardly things happened, he forgot everything. This is probably linked to the violent attack which left him unconscious and killed his wife.
It is not a whodunnit, because we see who at the very beginning of the film: this film begins at the end, with Leonard killing a man. What is missing is the rest: what and why. And with the memory of Leonard completely turned, it means that it is a kind of exceptionally dark marmot day: every day, Leonard begins with a clean slate and the memories he left him for days which he does not remember.
As the New York Daily News said: “The second film by the writer Christopher Nolan is one of the most original and ultimately confusing spirit games to reach the screen from the usual suspects.”
It’s beautifully done
Just an opinion: Memento is Nolan’s best film to date R / Christophernolan
Here is Empire Magazine: “Although Harold Pinter did this in betrayal, it is always something special, imaginative and stimulating, the exploration of Christopher Nolan of memory and time playing with the story and the structure.”
This continues: “The actors do an excellent job with perceptions, both [Carrie-Anne] Moss enigmatic woman and [Joe] The impatient companion of Pantoliano – new to Leonard every time he meets them – swinging from a friend to an enemy and again. Pearce is remarkably good, now with an intentional leak through which sparkle, frustration, despair and fury. “”
It’s completely confusing, in the right direction
I have seen “Memento” twice now. Can anyone explain the end? from R / Christophernolan
“All this is quite confusing,” said New York magazine (criticism is not currently online), “but again, many classic films.” And Boulder Weekly found him “flexion of memorable mind”.
It is definitely a film that benefits from a repeated visualization. “”Memento is one of these puzzles whose pieces tighten more closely with each view, “said Weekly entertainment.” The fact of feeding everything is a performance by Guy Pearce which is as indelible as the tattoo ink covering his body. “”
As Time Out wrote: “There is class A work of all the people concerned, in particular Pearce, but in the end, it is Nolan’s film. And he delivers, with revenge.”
