“Some Memories are Best Forgotten” Christopher Nolan’s Memento, review by Zach Gibson For people who want to engage in movies with the best plots, magnificent performances, and exceptional scripts, this movie is utopia. Memento is written and directed by Christopher Nolan, a well-known filmmaker who did noble work in Inception, Insomnia, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Interstellar. This film is about the man named Leonard Shelby and his intention to seek the person who raped and murdered his beloved wife. Also, Leonard is incapable of creating a new memory from his incident. This film’s content is based on a short story by Jonathan Nolan to use film formal with two different perspectives that simplify the main character, Leonard Shelby, by viewing two intersecting storylines; one sequence is forward in time with black and white, while other in reverse as it fills in the gaps from the end to the beginning in color. Memento can be described as confusing, unpredictable, and phenomenal; it is one of the best psychological thrillers that Christopher Nolan ever created. To understand the certain point of Memento, Christopher Nolan desires to build the structure in an opposite way than chronology length of time. For instance, this film generates a series of mystical …show more content…
In their production duty is to use a cinematic scene to break two sequences apart and mixes with the random scene that engage the audience to keep their eyes on screen. For example, in the beginning of the chase scene, Leonard didn’t even know if he was chasing the man with the gun or not until he realizes the man with the gun was chasing him. Because of that, every reverse scene gives a clue of what Leonard was doing from earlier; an excellent approach from Christopher Nolan’s genius idea to use reverse alphabet from Z to