I must hand it to director, Christopher Nolan, for making what is probably one of the best movies i have ever seen. Of course I'm talking about his film in 2000, Memento. Starring Guy Pearce as Leonard, a man, suffering from short-term memory loss, who uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife. I believe what made this movie so great with addition to the great plot, after all whats better then man out on the hunt seeking vengeance, was the obscurity of Nolan's style of filming.
I have never seen a movie shot the way Memento was. With the viewer actually knowing the fate of a later character after the movie, the epilogue if you will. Working backwards all the way to the beginning of the main characters story. Nolan's use of black and white in the film was also very well used symbolizing past tense for the views to understand and switching to color anytime a scene was in the present. In addition i thought Leonard's character was one of the more interesting characters I've ever seen on the big screen. Even with a severe condition of short term memory, he continued to hunt down the killer of his wife regardless whether he would remember doing so. I thought the psychological aspect to Leonard's character was quite intriguing and got me to think more during the film. An additional comment i have on this film is about the ending. With out giving anything away i thought ending was fantastic how everything kind of tied together at the end, and when the credits came on. You had that feeling of "no way". Similar to the feeling you get after watching a movie such as Usual Suspects. How everything makes sense in the last seen (sort of). Overall Memento was a great movie scripting wise, and with its cinemitogrraphy effects and ideas.
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