Memento
(Newmarket Film Group) Rated R
Release Date
- March 30, 2001
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Directed
by Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Mark Boone Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky.
Written by Christopher Nolan.
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The movie is called
Memento and it is an interesting little film indeed.
Here's the premise: A guy loses his short-term memory, his
ability to make new memories, after an attack on his home
in which his wife is raped and murdered. And so, he creates
an elaborate system of written notes, tattoos and photographs
to take the place of his failed facility. Enter Carrie-Ann
Moss and Joe Pantoliano, not through a phone line,
but in forms that bounce in and out of Pearce's reality almost
as fluidly. You see, we see the world through Pearce's character's
mind's eye. (Can I use three possessives in a row?) And we
live at the whim of his memory, just as he does. Pearce is
on a mission to find and kill his wife's attacker. Who can
he trust? Who is out to destroy him? What is real? How can
one bend reality? These are all the questions of Memento...

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