Memento

The movies "Memento" is a psychological based thriller. Produced in 2000 and directed by Christopher Nolan, the movie is based on the short story, Memento Mori written by Jonathan Nolan. The movie documents the story of Leonard Shelby, a man who, in the past, suffered a break in into his house and was assaulted, and his wife raped and killed. Leonard Shelby must now living out his life with Anterograde Amnesia; this means he can't remember anything from after his wife's death, even if it has happened only minutes ago. Leonard can make no new memories of faces, people, incidents. Because of this, he resorts to taking polaroids of people and places in order to navigate his way through life.

I think one of the most powerful aspects of this movie are the voice overs and accompanying use of black and white in the hotel room scenes. The editing of this movie is notoriously bizarre and un-chronological (to use a word I just made up just now), but the black and white scenes and so out of place, so suspended in their own time lines and own events that I get lost in them, in a good way. Guy Pearce is also so good in these scenes, he is distracted and seemingly innocent without becoming irritating. There is an element of frustration because he just can't get it due to his dissability, but I think that the backwards editing is deliberate in order to put you on the same level with Leonard; you are just as confused as he is, and because of that you sympathize with him.

Sidebar: oh my god, how evil is Carrie-Ann Moss in this movie!? She's so evil! When she says all that stuff and is like "But when I come back in here you won't remember any of it" and then he's rushing around to find a pen and gets distracted by the car door and forgets everything?????? AAAHHHHHHHHHH! IS THERE NO JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD? THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS!!!