Memento (10th Anniversary Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Yeah, I know, he's done tons of great movies. Interstellar might be the best movie ever made. This is a super close 2nd. A movie you have to watch twice to understand what you watched the first time, haha. They also have a version where it is run backwards- which is also cool to watch. He tried unsuccessfully to mimic the concept with Tenet- which was so implausible and unwatchable, I hated every minute I had to sit through it.This is a 25 best movies list- movie.

Memento (2000)Drama, Mystery, Thriller, 113 minutesDirected by Christopher NolanStarring Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano and Carrie-Anne Moss"What's the last thing you remember?""My wife...dying."I remember watching Memento on cable and buying it a few days later. It was such an original way of telling a story that I was excited to show it to my friends at the earliest opportunity.They hated it.The opening scene shows Leonard Shelby (Pearce) killing Teddy (Pantoliano), but that scene is actually how the story ends. Leonard suffered a head injury when his wife was murdered by intruders and hasn't been able to form short-term memories since the event. He remembers everything up to that point, such as who he is and what he did for a living, but can't build new memories.What would it be like to wake up every day and wonder where you were? What are you supposed to be doing that day?In order to place the viewer in a similar position, Nolan tells the story in reverse. We see events unfold and new information is introduced each time. The information changes our perceptions of the events we have already seen and the people we have already met. Who can Leonard trust? How can he keep the information readily available if he's going to forget everything?Nolan actually tells two stories. One is in black and white and proceeds in normal chronological order. This tells the story of Leonard's life before the accident. He worked as an insurance investigator and one of the claimants, Sammy Jankis, had the same problem with his memory. A tattoo on Leonard's wrist tells him to remember Sammy Jankis, and he's able to because it happened before he suffered the head injury.A second story shows Leonard's hunt for his wife's murderer. This time, Nolan tells it in color and uses reverse chronological order.Are you with me so far? Good.You can see why my friends hated the film. It requires patience and your full attention to understand what is going on. Furthermore, Leonard is an unreliable narrator, so we can't trust everything. Nolan presumably did this to show that Leonard can't trust his own thoughts.In order to function at all, Leonard employs a series of devices to aid his memory. He also sticks to a routine as much as possible. He takes photos of his car, his motel, and people he meets. As he finds out information about people, he writes notes on the photos.Teddy is either a crooked cop, a complete liar, or both. He claims to be helping Leonard look for his wife's killer, but he makes several attempts to borrow Leonard's car. When you see the closing scenes, you'll understand what his true motive may be.Natalie (Moss) is also claiming to help Leonard by providing information. Unfortunately, she also has motives of her own.Leonard doesn't know who to trust. He also doesn't know how long he's been trying to avenge his wife's death. Because of the nature of the narrative, we aren't even sure that Leonard hasn't already killed the murderer at some point in the past. Are Teddy or Natalie using him for some other purpose? Are they even who they say they are?I've seen Memento at least twice a year since I first saw it. It has endless replay value and it's interesting to see some of the events unfold when you know the outcome. Nolan gets the little details right as well as the big ones. Notice how Leonard forgets which way the motel door opens and how he brushes his hand against a glass in a restaurant because he's forgotten that he put it there.Each time I watch a Nolan movie I think it's the best thing he has ever done. Whether it's The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige, or Memento, he treats his audience with respect. Rather than spell out every little aspect of the story, he allows the audience to draw its own conclusion. That alienates some viewers, as it did with my friends, but the payoff is worth it if you are willing to pay full attention.

I bought this used for a good price. So it has a little wear and tear. But both discs work and have no scratches.Overall, Christopher Nolan's movies are pretty good. This one is older (2000), but definitely a classic in my opinion. The original movie is out of chronological order, with the black and white scenes going forward and the colorful scenes going backward. It can be confusing at first but the plot draws you back for another viewing or two. By then the order of the movie should become clearer.This version I bought, the Limited Edition has a key to unlocking the movie in complete chronological order. It's a lot of fun to figure out, then you can sit back and watch the movie without having to think as much!

Memento uniquely tells the story of Leonard Shelby, a man struggling with his own conscience and capabilities, and which people in his life can be trusted. Leonard and his wife were assaulted during a home invasion incident that left his wife raped and murdered, and him with anterograde amnesia. Unable to make new memories, Leonard is determined to maintain purpose and independence through discipline, focus, and revenge upon the man he believes to be responsible.The redeeming value of this film is that it stretches the brain in a way that allows the viewer to somewhat empathize with the condition. It may also sub-consciously condition ANYONE who watches the film to more easily predict the plot OF other psychological thrillers. Through a subjective reverse chronology of color scenes juxtaposed with a semi-objective chronology of black and white scenes, director Christopher Nolan puts the audience in the driver’s seat through the eyes of Leonard Shelby (“Lenny”). Misdirection, misinformation, and missing pieces within different narratives force the audience to decide their own truth in a linear progression, while also feeling a little taken ADVANTAGE of. If there is a moral of the story to TAKE away, it is that through Teddy’s fate we recognize the dangers of deception and misinformation, which anyone can fall prey to. Because all of the main characters are deceitful, it makes it a nearly impossible task to determine which sequence of events actually occurred, external of the home invasion.Struggling to cope with his DISABILITY, Leonard is forced to rely on A more absolute method of fact-checking, and therefore tattoos ‘the facts’ and other important information on his body. He utilizes polaroid pictures WITH accompanying descriptions to help him make some sense of the PEOPLE in his life, and their trustworthiness. He is initially provided information regarding the home invasion incident through phone conversations with [probably] Teddy, a man whose ultimate motives are unclear, but who helps Lenny put together SOME of the pieces regarding the incident. Lenny repeatedly explains to Teddy the similarities between his ‘condition’ and that of Sammy Jankis who had the same condition and whom Lenny had to investigate while working as an insurance investigator before the incident; ultimately Sammy was unable to live with his condition independently because he lacked motivation, discipline, and a specific overall purpose.Lenny has become a capable killer despite his DISABILITY so Teddy exploits this by helping Lenny identify and kill drug dealers named John or Jimmy G while they both make money on the side. After Lenny kills A ‘Jimmy G’ and takes his drug money along WITH his car and clothes, he finds himself in the bar where Jimmy’s girlfriend Natalie works. Like ANYONE probably would in Natalie’s situation, she makes a quick assessment OF what has happened and proposes to take ADVANTAGE of Lenny by using him to get rid of Jimmy’s partner Dodd (who is looking for Jimmy and the missing cash) and possibly TAKE the money. In return for his help, Natalie provides Lenny with DMV information on John G. based on ‘the facts’, and that information reveals Teddy as John Gammel. She also gives Leonard the address of an abandoned warehouse he can use (where incidentally, Lenny has been killing any drug dealer named John or Jimmy G). Lenny then lures Teddy there and kills him- fulfilling his initial plan- to kill PEOPLE with the name John/Jimmy G.Because two different narratives work in the context of an incomplete police report, an alternate narrative suggests that Lenny’s wife actually survived the home invasion but at SOME point was accidently killed by Lenny as a result of his condition. To deflect that guilt, he has created a false narrative that blames a second perpetrator (who got away) for the rape and murder of his wife, and he must now therefore find him and kill him.

Visione che fa sentire gli anni del film. Ma il film è un opera imperdibile. Geniale sotto tanti punti di vista. Se hai un dubbio… levatelo e compralo subito.

Our Australian bluray player could not read it.

Por fin aparece este título en BR a un precio imbatible que hay que tener. Esta edición viene presentada en caja de plástico de doble disco (BR con película + DVD con extras) con funda de cartón folding en negro barnizado que otorga más calidad visual al packaging.La película ofrece una imagen correcta (no es soberbia pero cumple sobradamente) y un sonido en castellano en PCM 5.1 convincente, aunque lo mejor es la pelicula en sí. Un argumento muy original al estilo David Lynch, que al principio confunde pero que enseguida te atrapa esperando al final que te hará entender el principio de la película y de la ambigüedad de los personajes . Porque esta película esta montada al revés. Podrías verla desde el último capitulo y acabar en el primero,pero entonces se acabó el encanto.Muy buena película y Carrie-Anne Moss guapísima.

I love movies that I can watch over and over and pick up on something new each time. Great script and great acting. I had seen this movie years ago and it holds up in the thriller-noir category. If just seeing it for the first time, you'll probably have to watch it twice to get the full affect. And pay attention when you do. Lots of twists and turns.

Content d'avoir pu remettre la main sur ce film en HD, Guy Pierce y est très bon et l'histoire rondement menée, à voir ou à revoir !