'Memento' is worth its name !

Yesterday I watched this movie 'Memento' directed by Christopher Nolan. Memento, which is derived from Jonathan Nolan's 'Memento Mori' features Guy Pierce in the prime role. First of all, I am not a big fan of Guy Pierce. In fact, he stars in 'LA Confidential' and sort of steals the stage from two of my favourite actors Crowe and Spacey.

But this movie is much more that Guy Pierce. He is not at all important, infact anyone could have acted in this role. Wiki says that director approached Brad Pitt for this role before. One could really ask 'Why?'. He should have charged him much more that Guy. In this film, even Jim Carrey could have carried out this ultra-complex character of Leonard Shelby. Shelby is an investigator for an insurance company, who is sufering from short-term memory loss ( a simpler term for 'anterograde amnesia'), but also invetigating about the second among the two guys involved with his wife's murder. So he devices a complicated system of using a polaroid camera and leaving important notes as tattoo all over his body so that when he loses memory he atleast can remind him about the mission he is on. But he is sometimes tricked by his close friend to do something which has nothing to do with his wife's murder. Teddy, a cop and friend of Leonard, reminds him that he has already killed his wife's both murderers. At this point, he decides to kill Teddy and keeps a note for himself that Teddy is indeed his wife's murderer. Finally, he kills Teddy and lives on in his never ending mission.

This may be the end of the story, but this is the begining of the movie. The craft of the movie is divided into two narrations one which runs in a forward direction(in black and white film) and the one in reverse direction ( in color version). But they both meet at the end. I must say I did not read the description of the movie in the wiki before I started to watch it. I also suggest it is fun in this way. Later on, I verified with wiki what I got out of the movie, and was more or less on the right track. This is a lovely movie for those who really loves to criticize technicality of film-making and adores experimentation with the way the story to be revealed. I liked this movie, but also had to watch the entire movie without skipping a scene to really get it. This was more of an assignment than just a real past-time. So, beware trespassers !

Couple of years back, I watched another lovely movie called 'Run Lola Run', that was also a theme movie of showing multiple lives n every instances. But if I start about this now it will be another episode.. so some other day...