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Memento (2000)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
11/03, 3/09
3/09:
Having seen Memento six years ago, I desperately tried to remember what the plot was all about although I knew
it went backwards and the lead character had a bunch of silly-ass tattoos, hence the perfect recipe for IMDb fanboys.
After rewatching the film recently, it's exactly what I remembered. It has a lot of gaps in logic. For example, if Lenny,
who has a memory problem, is driving to locations where he's supposed to be at, won't he, just in the middle of it, forget
where he's going by blanking out?
At one point, the wax residue left on Lenny's Jaguar led me to think he forgot to finish the job. Then later,
it turned out that he stole the car from Jimmy G. So, why would Jimmy G., who's concerned about looks, let the wax stay on
his car? Going backwards, Teddy seemed to know what's going on. So, why wasn't he prepared for what was going happen when
Lenny began to connect the dots?
I notice that during the first half a certain amount of time had been spent on making sure the dots,
while going backwards, were carefully connected. But in the second half, the filmmakers got lazy by letting things
go which caused confusion in the plot. Anyway, whether or not Lenny is telling the truth, it doesn't matter. Jimmy G. is dead,
and Lenny is alive and stuck with his stupid memory problem.
All in all, Memento is G-N-I-R-O-B, G-N-I-S-U-F-N-O-C, and D-I-P-U-T-S G-N-I-K-C-U-F.