September 11, 2000

  March 30, 2001

Memento
(Newmarket Film Group) Rated R

Release Date - March 30, 2001
 

Directed by Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss,
Mark Boone Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky.
Written by Christopher Nolan.

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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