Memento (2000) : Anything serving as a reminder or warning. [Dictionary.com]

Memento (2000) by Christopher Nolan is one of the breakthrough films of his career and may be one of the greatest films ever made.

Now that the audiences know this what can a Sri Lankan film fan like me can give new to the readers.

Memento is a 2000 american neo-noir psychological thriller film after Nolan's "Following (1998)" which was kind of the same film making which later becomes his world renowned iconic film making style.

Like many of initial films Memento explores the dark human conditions and it's cold heartedness with psychopathy infused. And also he brings his great editing and story telling techniques to the film in a grand scale.

This is a most talked about film and needs multiple viewings, Now with my busy schedules I only watched it once and I'm like really confused but awed by it's film making competence.

The story is about a guy called Leonard as a result of a past trauma, suffers from anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories and suffers short-term memory loss approximately every five minutes. He is searching for the persons who attacked him and killed his wife, using an intricate system of Polaroid photographs and tattoos to track information he cannot remember. Memento is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences "meet" at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.  

As a SL film for me Memento is unique noir classic with it's unique confusing narrative style which later becomes nolanites favourite in his films with haunting music, context, acting and depth. This becomes one of the best films ever put to screen in terms of crime and human condition with unique atmosphere.

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·         Title: Memento (2017). Format: (Jpg.). Available at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/mediaviewer/rm1285798656   (Accessed date : 5/02/2017)

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 ·         Website – IMDb.com (2017). Website title – Memento (2017) [Online]. Available at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/ (Accessed date : 2017/05/02)

·         Website – Wikipedia.com (2017). Website title – Memento (2017). [Online]. Available at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)   (Accessed date : 2017/05/02)

·         Website – Dictionary.com (2017). Website title – Memento (2017). [Online]. Available at : http://www.dictionary.com/browse/memento    (Accessed date : 2017/05/02)