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Can we pause for a second and give Guy Pearce his props? Priscilla, LA Confidential, this movie, The Proposition, The Rover, The King’s Speech, Christmas Carol… he’s a criminally overlooked legend.
i liked him before he disappeared, changed his name and became "The Deep".
And let’s not forget Neighbours! ☺️
@@Thingfishy beauty.
Ravenous!!!
Lawless
Sammy was 100% Leonard's mismemory, possibly a fantasy he forgot he invented. Which then complicates the picture about what long term memories he actually can form, afterall. And, yeah, Leonard's wife totally tested him with the insulin and he totally, but unintentionally, killed her himself.
"Teddy" lied about all kinds of things and manipulated Leonard constantly to serve his own interests, so why would we believe him about this? Not saying it's impossible, but I think it's more likely that this was just another attempt at manipulating him. Even that's not 100% because I think the whole point of this movie is that everything is supposed to be ambiguous.
@@timeverts2176 nah, it’s pretty clear by the ending Teddy was telling the truth. No reason for Lenny to burn the picture other than to forget it intentionally. Nolan even did an interview where he’s surprised so many people are sure teddy was lying at the end and puts it down to people taking the “don’t believe his lies” message on the photo as gospel even after we realise it’s unreliable. Hell, Lenny even altered one of his “facts” on his arm to add “or James” as well as John to make the list of potential victims as wide as possible. As well as censoring his own police report.
@@jasondemagio4449 As I said, I'm not sure Teddy was lying, I just don't think it's the most likely possibility. It's supposed to be ambiguous. The entire movie is about making the audience doubt their own interpretation of what's happening, and so is the ending. I think people saying Teddy is 100% telling the truth are just as wrong as people saying Teddy is 100% lying. The police report and most of Leonard's facts are coming from Teddy, which Teddy could be lying about, not necessarily Leonard deliberately fooling himself. Or maybe Leonard is fooling himself. I don't think it's supposed to be 100% conclusive either way.
Sammy Jenkis was a real person. But he was a faker, like Teddy said. However, while Leonard was in a mental hospital following his injury, he figured out eventually that he COULD in fact force himself to form new memories through constant repetition. He kept composition books full of notes for a while, and in these books he invented a slightly different version of the story of Sammy in which Sammy killed his wife... because it was just too painful for him to keep finding out that HE had killed his wife. He wrote this made-up story down in the books and read it over and over and over and over again until it was something that he could actually remember, then he destroyed the books and switched to using the tattoo system and that's when he tattooed "remember Sammy Jenkis" on his hand - that was the first tattoo. Sometime after this he escaped from the hospital and went on the hunt for his wife's killer, having conditioned himself to not remember that he was, in fact, the one who killed her.
A lot of this is not in the movie... but it was included in hints printed in the special edition DVD which was made to look like one of Lenny's old composition books. There is a VERY quick and subtle hint in the film about this.. when Lenny is telling the story about Sammy being in the hospital there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment when Sammy is actually replaced by Guy Pearce and you see Leonard was really the one who was in the hospital.
even the tatoo "remember sammy jenkis " is written in a different style of handwriting , by his own rules he should know it's a lie.
Nolan's best film IMO. I wish he'd return to making slightly "smaller" movies like this.
Id say The Prestige with this as a damn close runner up by a nose
Agree wholeheartedly. My favorite Nolan films are Memento and Insomnia.
@@Nick_CF Agreed. The Prestige is Nolan's best movie. Followed by Memento, Inception and Insomnia.
Nah. TDK is his best
Absolutely, too much money ruins a lot of great storytellers.
The moment for Momento is here! "My wife deserves revenge whether or not I remember it" says the protagonist. 📸Memento is a diabolical and absorbing experience !
Love it! :D
This film is a very good example of how you can do more with the "how" of a film than with the "what". A simple story told and filmed in the right way by the right people. This is art. Brilliant piece of cinematic art.
The story is pretty straightforward. Leonard's wife got assaulted and Leonard got hit in the head. The wife survived and Leonard got brain damage and amnesia. He killed his wife with the insulin and made up the story that John G killed her to live with himself. The Sammy story is just him disassociating his own memories from the guilt. Teddy helped Leonard kill John G and noticed how effective he was. Teddy then used Leonard to run his drug empire and kill competitors.
Haha all the times I've watched Memento and I never realized what Teddy was doing fully until that last sentence there.
@@verynice5574 it's a subconsciously created narrative. Brains do amazing things in an attempt to protect oneself.
That's the written story the movie is based on. The actual movie is much more ambiguous, because Teddy is an unreliable narrator.
I completely disagree because the movie establishes Leonard knows his past memories. He knows his wife is not diabetic. Teddy is lying to trick him and the viewer. Do not believe his lies. He is the one. Kill him.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 So True, I hate unreliable narrators, he he thought, he he
Another movie in the "you can only watch it for the first time once" category I quite liked was the 1997 "The Game"... probably the first movie of that type that I really noticed.
The Game is crazy good. Definitely a must watch.
The Game is hands down my favorite Fincher flick...so much fun and the atmosphere is perfect.
“The Player,” with Tim Robbins. Also excellent and a bunch of Hollywood cameos in the film.
Like 'Matchstick Men.'
Appropriately, this is a movie I wish I could forget ever watching because it's so good the first time around.
I find I enjoy it more every rewatch, you pick up on little things you missed and you appreciate this masterclass in continuity
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Natalie originally was angry at Leonard because she figured out that he killed her boyfriend and stole his suit and car.... but it's hard for him to stay mad at him because he doesn't even remember that he did it, and she knows that Teddy manipulated him to do it. Teddy is a dirty cop on the take, Jimmy was a drug dealer that Teddy sometimes worked with. Teddy wanted Jimmy eliminated even though they had done drug deals together, so Teddy manipulated Leonard into killing Jimmy. Natalie manipulated Leonard into scaring off Dodd... who was also involved with drugs but was owed money by Jimmy... of course Jimmy couldn't pay off Dodd because he was dead and Leonard took all his money, so Dodd was putting pressure on Natalie. Natalie, out of anger and frustration at the whole situation, standing in a room with her boyfriend's killer, decided to manipulate Leonard by tricking him into beating her and then making him think that Dodd did it. But later... she felt bad about this. She started to pity Leonard because everyone takes advantage of and manipulates him for their own ends, just like she did. So she helped him out of pity find the license plate... it's unclear if she knew that John Gammel was also Teddy... but if she did then that would have been fine with her as she blamed Teddy (rightly) for her boyfriend's murder.
Leonard's memory of the rape and assault of his wife was accurate. But that was his last clear memory. He didn't remember that his wife survived. Afterward, he went back home to live with his wife, but his wife couldn't cope with Leonard in his new condition. She wanted to believe that he could get better. Out of despair or depression or disbelief... she did what we see Sammy's wife doing and asked Leonard to give her her shot many times, putting her into a coma. Leonard ended up in a mental hospital. In this mental hospital, he had to deal with every day waking up and the last thing he remembered being his wife getting attacked... only to find out upon asking that she was dead, and that he was the reason she died. He didn't want to remember this. It was too painful. So he took bits of a story he already knew - about Sammy Jankis - who was an insurance cheat who lied about a condition similar to Leonard's... then he merged it with elements of his own story... the wife with diabetes. He wanted to make this about Sammy, not about him. He wrote the story down in composition books along with notes he made to himself to commit it to memory, which is what he did, by reading the story over and over and over he eventually was able to make it part of his memory through conditioning. And inside the hospital he gave himself a simple, amateurish tattoo "remember Sammy Jankis" on his hand... his first one.
After escaping from the hospital he then went on a quest to find his wife's "killer." Even though he was the real killer. But he burned or got rid of the notes that would have let him know that. Like he said at the end, he lied to himself to be happy. He wanted to find the other man who gave him his brain injury, and he thought if he could pin his wife's death on him, and kill him, he'd be happier. He found Teddy, the cop who worked the case of the assault/rape/burglary, and together the two of them went on the hunt to find this other man. Eventually they did find him, and Lenny killed him, but he didn't remember.
After that, Leonard was still friends with Teddy, but he couldn't remember what they had done, so.... Teddy just started using him as kind of an enforcer and assassin in Teddy's dirty drug dealings. He would plant evidence making him think that this guy or that guy was the man he was looking for... so Leonard ended up killing a lot of people that Teddy wanted dead. That's what happened to Jimmy. After Jimmy's death, when Teddy confessed to all of this, it pissed Leonard off, and so Leonard decided to fool himself into thinking that Teddy was the one he wanted and copied down his license plate as the final clue... that's the start/end of the movie.
Leonard was then driving Jimmy's car and wearing Jimmy's suit, which had the note from Natalie in its pocket (notice the way Natalie says "your pocket"... she knows that it's really Jimmy's pocket)... which led Leonard to go to Natalie's bar and meet her.
There's a scene when Sammy is in the care home and a nurse walks between him and the camera and for a brief moment it's Leonard sat in the chair. Its a "blink and you'll miss it" moment
i don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but the black and white camera effect was a very nice touch. it's so seamless with the movie that i bet a lot of people didn't even pick up on it lol.
Regarding having a system or a mark to show that you didn't write something down willingly: he wrote the note about Natalie in cursive, where his regular handwriting is in all capital letters.
And the tattoo on his hand to "remember Sammy Jankis" is in cursive.
I love this movie's take on the unreliable narrator. It's so carefully constructed so that each scene recontextualizes the scene that came before, totally changing its meaning. Very glad you got to watching it!
This is one of the films I try not to talk about with other people so that when I see it again I don't remember the details of what happened. It's not like seeing it for the first time again exactly but there are large parts of it that I don't remember and that makes the ending uncertain. Seeing you react to this makes me wish you'd do Oldboy (2003) I hope it's already on your list.
Yeah...
First time i saw it i was SO tired afterwards, lolz
As well as OLDBOY (the original, I might add,) I heartily recommend SHUTTER ISLAND.
I've been waiting for someone to react to this movie. Thank you, Mary!
The dvd version had a feature where you could watch it forwards instead of backwards. It was equally confusing. 😂🤷♂️. Glad you enjoyed this movie , it really is amazingly well thought out. It’s a movie that never stops feeling fresh because of the way it is shot.
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The best crime film ever made. It masterfully blends EVERY style, every plot that ever existed, insurance, (Double Indemnity), the lone man, duped by everyone, reacts and gets even.. The barest philosophical, ethical elements of each common sub-plot, the self deception for each way point, and the subtle change in identity for each wrong decision, which accumulates beyond recognition. "The who am I, what's happenning " beginning of each day is a brilliant philosophical tool and I think Nolan (and his brother) are just brilliant enough to explore all the classical arguments and schools of thought/interpretations... they seem to nod to each with a single phrase or response that is perfectly positioned in a circumstance in reality to establish a substantial proof of each's applicability or strength. And this is only one of many foundations they use to create the entire story. Also, one of the hallmarks of early noir films, something that was controversial amongst censors in early Hollywood, was the protagonist engaged in the wrongdoing but escaped the consequences/punishment one would normally see in film, and standard story lines and walks free in the end. Very controversial at the time. If it's true that the Nolans were laying bare each instance in a wide variety of philosophical traditions, then the purposeful forgetting in the end would be the ultimate act of someone who had started his ethical slide into revenge with a necessary, though unwitting, self forgetting. The short term memory loss may just be a metaphor for this. Time and identity stop when he picks up the sword.
that was a cerebral and winding post. I enjoyed it.
There's a YT video of Nolan explaining this movie on a blackboard, I HIGHLY recommend you watch that! It really helps you understand how him and his brother came up with the concept and why it's GENIUS! Ultimately the movie is about how memory cannot be relied (including long term memory before the incident) on so some of the things told to you contradict by design and you'll never know the objective facts of the events.
i remember when i first saw this...it blew my mind. this movie was the first time i saw guy pearce. i just thought he was so good. i had no idea he was australian, either, he does such a good american accent. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is an early movie of his. it's really good. it also has Hugo Weaving in it.
Imo this film is the best screenplay ever written. The complexity alone is just completely unheard of, let alone the characters, plot twists, story beats, and neat details like the first line being "So, where are you?" and the last being "Now, where was I?".
I remember editing versions of Memento, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction in chronological order. Watching Memento in chronological order adds a level of humour to the story and it works pretty well. The black and white sequence where he talks on the phone happen before the colour parts of the movie.
I remember being obsessed with this movie back when it came out (I was around 15)! The dvd had a bunch of really cool hidden bonus features that I spent ages messin with too, which I remember fondly! Thanks for your reaction!
I sincerely miss DVD bonus features, featurettes, and bonus materials to play with and explore. That's the only thing I miss about DVD...well that and no buffering haha
@@Nick_CF dude! you act like they stopped making dvds / blu-rays. just go buy one with special features and relive your glory days.
I saw this movie in the theater with some friends. I didn't know anything about it, I just went in on a friend's recommendation. When I went home afterwards, I just laid in bed staring at the ceiling in the dark for a while. It's an impactful movie.
Oh, Mary; I love this movie, I'll have to watch along with you. I haven't seen it in so long
like others have said, imo, this is nolan's best movie. after i walked out of the theater with my friend, we were both kind of IN AWE.... like... how does one even go about CONSTRUCTING A MOVIE LIKE THIS?!?! a story like this?! and at the end, when you see lenny manipulating himself to feel good about himself and about the things that he's done, emotionally it just apexes with this profound sense of despair. ... and yet... it's AMAZING!
probably one of the best made movies ever in terms of just taking the medium and using every aspect of it to its utmost.
but almost as always, you were ahead of the game most of the time - your hypotheses that you dropped throughout the movie about what happened to natalie, whether they were manipulating lenny, they were all right. well done!
I really like how you turned your camera shot b&w for the b&w movie scenes, and colour for colour.
35:17 Well, there's a sentence I never thought I'd hear someone say so excitedly 😂
This is amazing. You have inspired me to do this now. Live this!❤️🔥🙏
This is certainly one of the finest films of all time and, IMO, Nolan's best work. it gets a lot of grielf for the gimmick, but the way the story ties into the concept is absolutely perfect.
Now that you've been introduced to one of Nolans best Time movies can't wait for you to react to tenet. That movie will break your brain. It's like inception mashed up with this movie
I remember the dvd for this movie had an option to watch the movie from beginning to end instead of from ending to beginning. Excellent flick by the way!
Mary, respect for not wanting to take responsability of breaking someone's life in the name of a big company. They say that Dura lex, sed lex, but for me not all laws are just, so even if you can win a case, sometimes it is morally right to lose it. But that is probably not very good for business.
The answer to most of your questions is answered in the movie. Conditioning, learning by repetition. None of us remember every minute of ever say of our past we have all sorts of internal shortcuts to piece together our past. His learning by repetition actually eventually took precident over pre-incident memories. Sammy was likely real because Teddy knew of him but the repetition allowed him to displace his own trauma on this picture of teddy.
I like your commentary! Amazing movie. You are so on point when u said that its so weird experience the movie, like main character is experiencing it, without knowing whats happening exactly.
black and white is the prologue going forward, while the colour scenes are going backward, only to connect at the end of the movie getting the tattoo
So glad you are reacting to Memento! I saw this when it first came out and it stayed on my mind for a long time. Great film. 😎
Thank you, Mary! ⏪ I got to see this one in the cinema. What an experience?!
19:30 exactly, that's why the film goes back the way, to give you the experience of Lenny's condition. When the film came out, a few critics slated it saying it was gimmiky, not understanding the point of the flashback style. Great observation, Mary. He forgot his wife had diabetes through conditioning, to change his narrative in order to offset the pain and make his life more meaningful, someone else killed his wife. Lenny had a reason because someone did try to kill his wife, so he reimagined the truth through conditioning and through his condition in order to give his live meaning. Think about it, without the life he is living, what would he do with himself? get a job? no. Great channel, Mary. Subbed.
Hey Mary new to your channel here, I love the way you reflect on whats going on during the movie , for a first time viewer Im impressed on your logical thinking and how many things you get right.
Liked and subbed :)
Apparently the DVd release of this movie had a version edited so the scenes play forwards instead of progressing backwards and it's just as enjoyable. I might see if I can find a copy on ebay.
Una de mis 3 películas favoritas (One of my 3 favorite movies)
1.- Mulholland Drive.
2.- Memento.
3.- Donnie Darko.
Never seen Mulholland Drive but I love the other 2.
Nolan's best movie by a long shot...
A lot of people miss that Teddy's only goal in this movie is to get the Jaguar away from Leonard because he knows there is $200,000 in the trunk (the money Jimmy brought to the "drug deal"). He offers to take the car to get the window fixed, he keeps asking for the keys, he offers to drive, etc. All of that is because he wants to get the car away from Leonard. Meanwhile Leonard has no idea about the money in the trunk.
MEMENTO!! LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!!!🚀
Going color/Black & White on the camera (to match the scene) was a nice touch.
the amazing thing about this movie is that the structure - the very form of the movie - is made in such a way as to imitate how it feels to leonard which you totally got. form and function in perfect harmony. that's what makes it so amazing.
This movie is about causality, taking advantage of someone else. Lenny takes advantage of every John G. he comes across to give his life meaning. And everyone else that encounters Lenny, every time, Teddy, Natalie, even Natalie's boyfriend takes advantage of Lenny and his anterograde amnesia. Teddy gets him to kill a Natalie's boyfriend, Natalie then gets him to kill Teddy, and Natalie's boyfriend probably had Lenny kill someone for his benefit, which in turn causes Teddy, a cop, to be on his tracks. It's the causality that links all of these events together that makes Memento such a crazy story.
Since you liked “Memento”, you absolutely should watch “Primer”. I don’t think anyone else has reacted to it. No hints, but you will love it!
I prefer Timecrimes to Primer, but it's in spanish so not many people watch it.
100%. Primer is incredible, a movie made for $5000 that makes 99% of Hollywood’s output look like tinker toys.
Yeah Primer was a great movie
Primer is so incredibly ugly, looks like somebody found a decent script got his hands on a camera for the first time.
Camera, blocking, Light and editing are atrocious.
@@j.m.w.5064 I guess that’s how a $5000 film won Sundance. By being atrocious.
Other mind bending film noir detective flicks include The Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski, The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown.
What a great run of reactions we're getting. Thanks so much.
23:50 He literally does have a system. He wrote that in cursive while every other note he made willingly was made with normal writing.
He did kill his wife, but it would be unfair to call it murder. She used his memory fail to kill herself.
Lenny’s wife survived the rape, he got brain damage, and so the insulin suicide happened after his brain damage.
This movie is amazing! I’m so glad I got to complete an assignment on it at university. It’s so good! Thanks for reacting to it Mary 🎉
Also, I’m Type 1 Diabetic as well! Ironically, I forgot that this movie involved insulin 😅
Some other movies from the Crime genre you may really like, The Rainmaker starring Matt Damon based on the novel by John Grisham, Witness starring Harrison Ford, Thunderheart starring Val Kilmer about a true life crime that happened on a Lakota Souix reservation, Raising Arizona is a great Crime/Comedy, The Pelican Brief is another John Grisham novel starring Julia Roberts, The Bone Collector starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and In The Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood.
Response to the videos in our heads comment around 7:15
My brain is blind, so no video stream. The technical name for it is aphantasia. Wasn't even known about until recently because everyone thought what they experienced was normal so nobody even thought about it. Just a little awareness spreading for a very unknown condition for most people which can lead to a lot of things that people assume everyone can do being difficult to impossible.
Imagine trying to meditate without being able to picture anything.
P.S. A fun sci-fi crime brain destroying love story would be Predestination while knowing nothing but the title on the first time watching it, and maybe that the starring role is played by Ethan Hawke.
Ooh what a good movie. You can see a lot of Christopher Nolan’s notable film techniques even as early as this one, and even moreover in his first film before this, Following
I bought the Following movie after i saw this. It is a good first movie.
the beginning is the end, the protagonist is the antagonist, when vengeance is crime, but also is vengeance, the antagonist is the protagonist, the end is the beginning
Love the reaction and mind blow!!! Keeping making more Mary!
This is one of the best films of our time. Now you must watch requiem for a dream.
My first Christopher Nolan film many years ago. Still very, very good. It raises so many interesting questions about grief, time, memory, identity, morality, etc. Glad you liked it. Though I haven't heard anyone say they disliked it.
How am I supposed to heal if I can’t feel time, what a line
Mary, this is a movie that would actually be worthwhile to react to the SECOND time you watch it!👍
I love this movie so much. Saw it for the first time in the first session of a class I took at university: Images of the Body in Modern Fiction (this and Crash were the two movies we covered). It's one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen.
That's why we love reactors, we get to watch these movies we love for the first time thru other people's eyes...
My favorite Chris Nolan movie! And his first big studio movie!!
I have the whole Nolan Infinity Gauntlet collection on Bluray:
Space Stone = Interstellar
Mind Stone = Memento
Power Stone = Batman
Soul Stone = Prestige
Reality Stone = Inception
Time Stone = Tenet
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My #1 movie of all time. Perfection
I forgot i saw this movie ;)
Do remember i was exhausted after i saw it in theater
Having heard it was a brain twister I went into it concentrating. Even then when I watched it a second time I realized things I didn't get the first time.
I had to watch this movie twice in a row to fully internalize the plot. Every time I watch it, I gleam more information. That's a good movie.
Have you noticed how the black and white scenes move forward in a linear fashion, while the color scenes go backward through time? Through what should be his memories?
One thing everyone gets wrong about the ending is that Leonard is not a serial killer. Not by choice at least. TEDDY lies and manipulates him into killing drug dealers, so TEDDY (a cop) has a easy way to clean up the streets and take their money without incriminating himself. Leonard lies and manipulates himself at the end not to continue the killings, but to STOP them.
You are such a sweet heart... glad you liked this "ever so slightly" 😅confusing movie... its done so well and you can appreciate that!... ty you for your reactions.... i am a true fan of your channel.... peace ☮
The hotel clerk in lots of Chris Nolan movies. He was in Batman!
Memento is one of my most recommended movies.
My understanding is that the assault and rape was real, and so was his trauma. That is the last thing he remembers. Afterwards, his wife just didn't believe. He was Sammy. So she committed suicide by asking him to put more and more insulin. He forgot that, because that is after his trauma started. He went on a revenge quest with Teddy, they found the assaulter and they killed him. But Lenny forgot that too, despite the photo, because he stills wakes up on the wake of that assault in which he thinks his wife died (even tho she didn't), so he needs to keep looking for the "murderer", even if he is already dead.
What a great movie. A lotta "work," but so much fun. Thanks for another wonderful reaction.
btw: this helped me understand the movie: ruclips.net/video/tYScJZWhaHA/видео.html
Gotta say I love this movie and Im glad you are watching it
At the beginning of the movie you hate Teddy because you think that he was the killer because you see Leonard kill him. But as the film goes on you start to trust him, and by the end you realize he's telling the truth and despite him using Leonard to kill drug dealers, he's really the best character. He's helping Leonard give himself a purpose, hoping that he will remember that he killed "John G" and enjoy that memory and not forget.
The brilliant way about how this film is edited, in reverse order, is that the audience doesn't have more information about what's happening in any given scene than the protagonist does. You're experiencing everything the same way that Lenny is. But I disagree with some people that it's not a film you can watch over again... I mean, sure, you don't get the same sense from seeing some of the twists, but I've watched this movie a dozen times at least it's just so well edited and written and put together. Enjoyed it every time.
On the first DVD there was an easter egg, pushing the right buttons on the remote and the movie was played in chronological correct order. On the BluRay I guess it is just an option you see and push
Great reaction to a great film
I don't think I commented on this reaction. I just left a comment on your Breaking Bad reaction, and remembered how much I liked this reaction as well.
So I just wanted to let you know that you are doing a good job and I personally think you have a really good mix of talking when necessary, NOT talking when necessary, and the editing is great.
Not sure how many reactions you have personally watched, but there are a ton of TV show and movie reactions that are ruined by too much talking, joking, or bad editing.
I think too many reactors try too hard, instead of just being themselves.
Also, you can tell when a reactor is reacting because they have to because of a vote or a Patreon. We have all been there, when we watch a show or movie because a friend or family member thinks we will like it. Of course we would rather be doing anything else. When we're not in the mood, it is very hard to stay engaged and positive. Those are the reactions that separate the average or good reactors from the great ones.
So anyways, I haven't seen one reaction from your channel that has disappointed me or turned me off to the channel. I really like your energy, and although I don't know you personally, you seem to have a very positive attitude and an open mind.
Again, just keep doing exactly what you are doing.
My favorite movie. I dug the fact that you kinda guessed the end a couple of times.
I haven't watched your video yet Mary but SUPER big props for doing this, trying to review/comment Memento by the Spielberg of our time is super gutsy (C. Nolan). This would be my second time around watching the movie, some scenes are burned into my brain, they are so good (or impactfull), but I know there are holes in it to. So Let's Go!
My mind is a mesh. That movie is a mind blower. I thought I spotted a few plots holes the first time around I watched it, not sure anymore. Seeing Trinity spitting (and asking around, even the victime - was one of the memory burned in my mind, but not accuretely apperantly) is still so troubling. Great movie, great review. Have a happy 2023 year Movies with Mary!
Hey Marijke, You are right. the movie "Momento" is so you. THis is our wedding gift to you. Letting you bend and stretch your mind to the edge of its limits in an amazing crime drama. I'm so glad you enjoyed it ans gave us such a great reaction. You should watch the movie again with your friends. Now that you know some of what's to come it will give you feedback in the group much more weight.
Memento is a classic.
One Of Christopher Nolan's Early Films Ever Made, Cool Reaction As Always Mary, Take Care Sweetie 🥰❤️
One of the best movies ever made.
This movie is definitely in my top 10 films of all time. The ending or beginning as it is is extremely dark and you have no clue that it is coming. Anybody who says the guessed the ending (beginning) is lying.
Can’t remember if you have seen pans labyrinth or not but if you haven’t seen it, I would like to see your thoughts on the ending.
A brilliant piece of art. This is a movie anyone who wants to call themselves a fan of film has to watch.
So... if they make Memento 2 is it a prequel or a sequel?
Yeah. It was called Mementwo. Don't you remember? 🤔
what a ride!
Great movie.
great choice to watch Mary
14:57 Wow. Thank you for sharing the experience which made you reconsider being a lawyer. That was amazing.😳 I hope that is done often. Sounds quite impactful.
Speaking of _impactful._ . .This is the type of film that reveals what film can do. How they engage us. How they can move us. Open our minds to ideas we hadn't before considered.
My usual Recommendations:
● *_The Fisher King_* (1991) Dir. by Terry Gilliam, with Robin Williams & Jeff Bridges.
● *_Silverado_* (1985) A fun western with Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Jeff Goldblum, and more.
● *_The Abyss_* (1989) Dir by James Cameron. Ed Harris, Michael Biehn (Reese from Terminator & Hicks from Aliens), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
being arranged the way it is, puts us (the viewers) into leonard's situation of only living in the moment. we don't know what happened before. it's a very clever trick to force us to be doubtful and off-balance just like him.
EDIT : and at 19:24 you mention exactly this thing. well done.
It was Natalie's plan from the very start to be hit by Lenny
I think Teddy's explanation at the end (which is chronoligically the middle of the story) is true. Leonard killed the other guy, his wife survived the assault and gave Leonard the "final exam". It's questionable whether Sammy existed or not. There's a scene with Sammy in a mental institution which switches to Leonard for a couple frames after someone walks in front of the camera suggesting that there wasn't actually a Sammy.
There was a Sammy - Teddy knows about him. He also knows that Sammy never had a wife, which means he would have look up Sammy after hearing the story from Leonard and discovered the truth about him.
@@jhornacek All we have to go on is what Teddy has said and he is not a reliable source. You might be right, but there is conflicting evidence.
The structure of the movie, with most of the scenes shown in reverse order, puts the viewer in the same position as Leonard. You know what's happening to him right now, but you don't know how he got there.
An interesting thing about Leonard is that he always thinks he's in control, when in fact he's being manipulated by everyone around him. Teddy and Natalie, in particular, each use him as a tool against the other.
I saw Memento in the theater when it first came out. When I told a co-worker I had seen it, she asked, "Did it have a happy beginning?"