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Here is one of those movies that need more then one viewing to comprehend, and in my case took 3 or 4. It's so unique and a giant leap from the Hollywood movies that are out there today, that you want to see it again and again not to just figure out the puzzles in the film, but to enjoy a great landmark film.
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehend-able life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. Now he tries to find his wife's killer and end the madness of his life.
Through out the movie, as it is told backwards Leonard is lost as are we and this is where we get hooked, we are connected to the main character straight from the beginning. The people around him who claim to be his friends, do we trust them, should Leonard, he only has his notes and pictures to look at to know who to trust. From the beginning we meet Teddy and are told not to believe his lies, why is this? We want to know why we can't trust him, what has he done to make Leonard not trust him and trust Natalie.
Joe Pantoliano always chooses great films to be apart of and here he is with his matrix co-star Carrie Anne Moss, both give good performances, but it's Guy Pearce who runs the movie.
This is a movie that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime because it is so unique and visually stunning in it's chronological order. Once you know what's happening in the film, and see how each scene ends, you desperately want to know what happened before it. Christopher Nolan gives us great suspense in a way that no one has ever done. In every thriller we want to know what happens next, what happens at the end. Here, if you want to get technical, we want to know what happens at the beginning, how did he get his memory amnesia, did he really kill John .G already?
There lies another greatness of the film, it never really tells you if Teddy was lying or not, just because Leonard thinks he's a liar, he's made out to be one throughout the rest of the movie, and then our whole experience with him changes. Was he really telling the truth? Does Sammy Jenkins really exist or was it really Leonard, this my friend is up to you to decide.
10/10
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehend-able life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. Now he tries to find his wife's killer and end the madness of his life.
Through out the movie, as it is told backwards Leonard is lost as are we and this is where we get hooked, we are connected to the main character straight from the beginning. The people around him who claim to be his friends, do we trust them, should Leonard, he only has his notes and pictures to look at to know who to trust. From the beginning we meet Teddy and are told not to believe his lies, why is this? We want to know why we can't trust him, what has he done to make Leonard not trust him and trust Natalie.
Joe Pantoliano always chooses great films to be apart of and here he is with his matrix co-star Carrie Anne Moss, both give good performances, but it's Guy Pearce who runs the movie.
This is a movie that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime because it is so unique and visually stunning in it's chronological order. Once you know what's happening in the film, and see how each scene ends, you desperately want to know what happened before it. Christopher Nolan gives us great suspense in a way that no one has ever done. In every thriller we want to know what happens next, what happens at the end. Here, if you want to get technical, we want to know what happens at the beginning, how did he get his memory amnesia, did he really kill John .G already?
There lies another greatness of the film, it never really tells you if Teddy was lying or not, just because Leonard thinks he's a liar, he's made out to be one throughout the rest of the movie, and then our whole experience with him changes. Was he really telling the truth? Does Sammy Jenkins really exist or was it really Leonard, this my friend is up to you to decide.
10/10