The movie that I have recently watched
is Memento. We watched part of it in class and I thought it was
really good so I went home and watched the rest on netflix. If I had
to give it a rating I would give it a 9 stars out of 10. This is a film by
Christopher Nolan Nolan who also directed the batman movies. All
these movies have the film noir feeling where one man is alone and
trying to figure something out and he doesn't always do the morally
right thing. They all have the dark feeling to them and they all
question what is really the right thing to do.
In class we talked about the femme
fatale and I believe that there are actually two of them in this movie
one being a man. Natalie and the police officer teddy use him to get
whatever they want done. They use him to go kill people that they
need erased. You could even say that maybe even he uses himself to
get whatever he wants. I really enjoyed this movie and when I thought
I understood everything an other part started and again I was lost
like the main character. Like the main character's memory the film is
told backwards in little parts at a time. The editing is done super
well because just like our guy you do not know why he does what he
does. He feels so confident why he does things while he really
shouldn't. For example he really believes there was a Sammy even
though there probably wasn't and when he believes that the car is his
because he was wealthy but we find out that it was not the case and
that the car actually belonged to a drug dealer. I guess even some of
the things he tattooed to his body were wrong even though he believes
that they are facts.
One scene that I thought was really
good was the last one when he writes down the license plate number of
Teddy's car. He just found out that Teddy has been using him many
times and so he tricks himself and writes down that John G's plate
number is actually Teddy's. He does this so that when he forgets once
again and tries to find out who killed his wife he will find this
"fact" and start hunting down who ever has that license
plate and kill them. This could go along with a quote that he said in
the movie that goes something like I do not need to know what revenge
feels like as long as I get it. I guess this time he is trying to get
revenge for himself.
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Maxime, good review. I too watched Memento, but it was for a different class. I thought the movie was interesting and you made good connections to Film Noir. One thing though is that a femme fatale has to be female, so teddy wouldnt work. But I think another cool thing about this movie is it's whole exploration of truth versus reality. It tells us that even though his actions are based off of truth, he still comes up with the wrong end result, by killing Teddy. I thought the chart of plot progression was really cool as well. It provides a good way to visualize what acctually happened. Great job and great movie.
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