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Memento Critique Memento is a very frustrating film that starts at the end of the events and works back to the beginning leaving you with a lot of unanswered questions about the main character. It does an excellent editing job in keeping the plot together while going backwards and still retaining the suspense. The information given to the viewer is very slow and repetitive but it is aided with the main character’s self narration and flashbacks which alleviate much impatience. The director forces you to feel compassion towards the victims and five minutes later slaps you with the irony that the victim was not the victim after all. The story is very twisted and has many angles that you can analyze and criticize and form your own conclusion depending on which of the characters you want to believe. If this low budget film had been shot in the normal chronological order, the story could have been told in about thirty minutes, yet Chris Nolan (the director), made it extraordinarily interesting and suspenseful through out the whole movie. The protagonist is a Brad Pit look a like which acting ability is not challenged in this film. He has about twenty minutes of acting and ten minutes of just narrating. His character name is Leonard Shelby and is played by Guy Pearce. The whole story revolves over him as he tries to get revenge for the murder of his wife. The most interesting side of Leonard is that he has a memory condition that doesn’t allow him to make new memories.
Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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