Memento 2000

Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard an exinsurance investigator who can no longer build new memories as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.

Review

I saw "Memento" in the early afternoon a fact for which I am thankful. Why Because it then proceeded to dominate the majority of my thoughts for the rest of the day. That night I lay in bed tossing and turning my mind trying to wrap itself around the story and I absolutely could not GO TO SLEEP!

I finally just gave up on sleep got up around midnight and watched "Election" to cleanse my palate. Then I went back to bed and starting contemplating "Memento" AGAIN. Finally out of sheer exhaustion I went to sleep.

This is a movie that gets in your head and will not get out until you figure it all out. And that can only be done with extensive internet research. Reading "Memento Mori" the short story upon which the movie is "based" helped too.

"Memento" is nothing short of a phenomenon. And a brilliant one at that.