Memento

Step by step back in time


Meet Lenny. He hates to be called that and its by far the only thing he remembers when he suddenly find himself shooting a man without the benefits of knowing why. Because Lenny can only remember the last few minutes of his life and every few minutes a new circle of finding out the previous events starts. Lenny finds himself having tattoos all over his body with clues to who murdered his wife. He wants revenge but he never remembers what else happened since he started searching for the man. Now that's why he makes polaroids of everything and the really important stuff he just tattoos on his skin.

"Memento" is the only movie of his kind that starts with the ending of the story and traces the steps back in short episodes to how it all began. And between those steps there are sequences going even further into Leonard's past, kept in black and white.

What makes this movie interesting is that you can think about what may have happened to get to the events but you never know more than what Lenny remembers and thats only just a few minutes each episode. Sounds confusing? Actually not, somehow director Christopher Nolan did the trick to keep the movie interesting and catching till the last minute. If you like a good thriller, don't miss this one!