Starring: Guy Pearce, Carry-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Certificate: 15
Genre: Thriller, drama
Awards: None
Memento was the film that put Christopher Nolan on the map and it's obvious why. The film is shown completely backwards - The end scene to the beginning- and follows Leonard Shelby (Pearce), a man with short term memory loss, who is trying to track down the people who killed his wife and gave him his condition. On his way to revenge, he meets a number of characters who he is not sure he can trust.
The unique way the story is told really creates this film. You don't know what is going on until right at the very end. This is definitely a film you have to concentrate on. Guy Pearce is a brilliant amnesiac who's story is so sad you can't help but root for him. Although film is incredibly clever, I feel that it is still weak compared to Nolan's other stories such as The Prestige and Inception.
****Good
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