Average Bufph Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
2000
A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.
Christopher Nolan's early masterwork, Memento, serves up an intricately constructed puzzle box revolving around trauma, amnesia, and memory. Guy Pearce inhabits Leonard Shelby with eerie determination, and the reverse chronological unraveling keeps one perpetually engaged despite initial confusion — perhaps reflecting cognitive dissonance experienced personally? Ultimately though rewarding upon second view once pieces fall into alignment satisfyingly.
