Review of Memento

Memento (2000)
9/10
Like a breath of fresh air.....
22 June 2001
Fantastic!! This film is a must see for anyone who likes cinema. Obviously it is the delivery, rather than what would otherwise have been a simple story, that is the key to this film. Starting at the end and then working backwards in the style of the affliction which affects and fragments the lead characters mind, one has to do mental gymnastics trying to cope with seeing the cause of after seeing it's effect.

Not a Sunday afternoon flick, this is a film that you really have to watch and concentrate all the time if you are to get to the end knowing what is going on. Many people I have spoken to have been put off by the fact that you frequently have to go long periods not understanding why something has happened, but I think that is part of the beauty.

Saying any more would give the game away - but this is up there with Being John Malkovich in the originality stakes...
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