no past nor the future makes sense Original title:
Memento Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan
Year: 2000
Production: Use
Length: 113 minutes
Genre: thriller
Rating: 9
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), has a rare disease that prevents him from store new memories for more than a quarter of an hour. This seems to be due to an accident during an assault had in which his wife was raped and killed. In fact Leonard only remembers everything up to that terrible day. In his life destroyed, the only goal left is to trace and punish the murderer. Polaroid Photo , memos, tattoos, are the means by which it attempts to build a grid of memory, resistant to the ambiguity of the survey and the volatility of the disease which he can perhaps arrive at some truth. The help a man who says he is an old friend (Joe Pantoliano) and a girl who claims to have suffered like him (Carrie-Anne Moss).
Christopher Nolan, to access the Pharaonic budget of "Insomnia" and especially "Batman Begins," has convinced Hollywood stars and producers of his talent with this (not too small) piece of jewelry. Scripted by the director's brother, Jonathan, and based on his original story, "Memento" is its greatest strength in its original script and complex, thanks to a building "progressive " full of flashbacks and flash-forward, with alternating black and white and color, an extreme concept that has been Tarantino in "Pulp Fiction" (honestly, already proven in 1956 by Stanley Kubrick in "Robbery in armed "), to art history of disturbing facts in the light of the plot.
Telling the story " the contrary" is not a sensationalist or choice voted for complacency: the only possible way to empathize with the viewer in a profound sense of dislocation and tear of interior which Leonard is a victim of its almost pathetic attempt regularly and systematically to object to a condition that would make life impossible for everyone.
Besides being a great thriller that recalls the best atmospheres of other times noir, this film is primarily a reflection on human frailty, the ancestral questions we ask everyone. These questions can be answered only in the past, without even meaning it loses the present and the future does not exist either.
Maybe that's why often you lie to yourself, building memories and fictional actions that this wadding and give boost to the future. The tragedy of Leonard is the same as those who, without being affected by such a disease, does not accept himself and prefers to deny their feelings, hiding under the veil of shame. In fact, those who are not ever want to remove even one day of their lives to defend himself from past uncomfortable? But on balance
difficult to maintain their identity by denying pieces that, like it or not, are part of us.
is that the investigation of Leonard becomes the only motive that would justify even a life forever compromised. Here's to rebuild the complex puzzle of his life he needs the help of his friend Teddy (Joe Pantoliano better). But he can really trust and all the other people who revolve around them? Like Leonard, we, in our daily lives, we must face questions to which, not always, we can give answers.
Memento is a film that, due to its complex structure , requires extreme caution and probably also needs more views to be included in an appropriate manner. But this is not a defect, but a common feature of many masterpieces.
Review also published on www.scheletri.com (January 2006)
David Battaglia
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