Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Uno Memento, Por Favor!

Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, was probably one of the most confusingly interesting movies I've ever watched. My favorite of the film noire movies (which is really redundant since it means movies black movies), I at first hated the fact that it was filmed in a crazy weird order with weird black and white scenes dispersed through out the movie to make it more confusing. I kind of think that seeing it over the course of like a week made it more confusing, as at the end being able to piece together all the scenes along with the black and white scenes made it somewhat easier to comprehend.

I really like Nolan's choice in using color (or lack there of) to really emphasis and help the viewer understand the differences in time frame of the scenes. The part where we see Sammy Jankis in a mental hospital in black and white, and then a quick shot of Teddy in color, which went unnoticed by me was really interesting.

P.S i really like photos like that.

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