Movie #47: Memento

Movie #: 47
Movie Title: Memento
Year Released: 2000

Director: Christopher Nolan
Notable Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Short Description: A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #33
Ranker.com: #66
Lifed.com: #32
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #39
FlickChart.com: #72



Date Watched: 9/17/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)

Rationale: I've believed this for a while, but Memento further confirms my thought that "In Christopher Nolan I trust." The man is nothing but a genius and, along with Steven Spielberg, tops my list of favorite directors. I've seen other movies that start by showing you the end of a story and then jump back in time to show you how the movie gets to that ending in a very linear method. What I don't recall ever seeing is a movie that builds upon the initial flashback with an additional flashback layer that includes more past information. Over and over the building continues through adding more layers until you're finally at the beginning of the story and discover how it all started rather than seeing the ending first and jumping straight to the beginning. Though repetitive at times because each additional layer required a brief retelling of previous layers, it was an amazing way to watch a movie and Nolan delivers as always.