Memento

Memento was quite a difficult movie, but I think it was really impressive!

At first, I thought it was tough for the director to make this movie interesting – because the conclusion came first, and the audience won’t need to predict what would come next. However, because of the great editing, I didn’t get bored at all! But I also have to admit that because it was a bit confusing movie, concentrating on the scenes are required.
The most unique thing about this movie is the narrative. The scenes are not in chronicle order, and the conclusion comes first. It can be said that the initial scene is also the insight. Therefore, I guess the audience can get an experience like Leonard – who can have memories for only ten minutes.
Also, the movie consists of to parts – the colored parts, and the black and white parts.
The colored scenes is the main part of the movie, while the black and white scenes focus on the past and about Sammy Jankins – a person that Leonard must not forget. Because the two parts alternately comes on screen, and the colored part is solely complicated, the movie becomes confusing and attracting at the same time. It was quite interesting when the two parts synchronized together.
Memento is quite a psychological movie – of course because of Leonard’s lack of short-term memory, but because the movie also requires the audience to use their cognitive interactivity. When the audiences see a particular scene, they only see it in one perspective, but when the reverse scene comes up, you realize that you can see the scene as a totally different one than you did 10 minutes before.
I think this movie should be seen more than once, because it is so confusing. Well, not only confusing, but it would be quite interesting to see this in another perspective. I bet that if I see this movie again, I would see the scenes and characters in a completely different way.Moreover, I estimate that I would recognize the things that I never focused on at the first time.