I just got around to seeing this movie now, it’s been on my list for a while. There is a little ‘Fight Club’ moment somewhere when you see the other guy that suffers from the memory thing.

I liked it. It’s original in the way it’s set up, the story is interesting and it has some inventive twists.

I have ADD. It’s not funny. This movie, for some reason, made me painfully aware of how inconvenient it is to have ADD.

I think watching this makes you aware of the limitations and faults in your own memory. But, the problem w/ this movie is you should not get up during it at all, bcuz then you will be lost on what happen and such. Also it goes from backwards to forwards.

One of the most original films you will ever see.

The central idea of Memento is fascinating in that it is a thriller built around a main character who cannot remember anything for more than a few minutes. That is combined with a reversed narrative structure where we see the ending and as we go backwards in time we realize that we know less and less about the character and the situations. It’s great to watch and figure things out and the repetition of scenes works well too. I should have seen this film a while ago, but for some reason I just didn’t get around to it. Playing with what we see and what we know and causality is something that works very well in a film. It’s a gimmick, but it is done so skillfully that we admire the way that it plays out.

The premise was interesting, but I found the film gimmicky, self-conscious and tedious.

Interestingly, a couple of years after the film came out, I met a woman who had suffered a head injury and basically lived this man’s life, (albeit maybe not quite as extreme). She navigated through the world – pretty successfully – with the help of her family, by writing on herself, and mostly “post-its”. Maybe her brain was starting to establish new neural pathways for her most repeated tasks, or something. But, it did cause difficulty in her family relationships, and in her work as a liturgist, she had a hard time connecting music with the rites/services in her church, so that music became just a series of notes, rather than something with a sacred component. This was the saddest thing of all for her.

Although it’s an interesting movie, it is fundamentally impossible. A person who has this disorder (in real life) only has minutes before his/her memory “resets” itself. On top of that, he/she spends those few minutes trying to reorient and understand what’s going on. So, this film’s character would not remember taking the photos and would only be confused by them.

I liked the narrative structure, but this is such a major flaw. I’m always amazed at how people either overlook this fact or are so dazzled by this film that they don’t seem to care.

This was a fascinating movie. An edge-of-your-seat-what-the-hell-is-going-to-happen-next-and-do-I-really-want-to-see-it kind of movie. A laughing-in-disbelief-but-it’s-damned-funny kind of movie. Christopher Nolan has so deftly captured what it must be like to live in the mind of someone who is incapable of creating and holding onto long-term memories and the kind of tragic and sometimes comic turns that someone’s life is capable of making, especially when they are on the trail of a killer who doesn’t seem reluctant to kill again. I know the fragmentation of this movie bothered some, but it really worked for me because it seemed so very real with where Leonard was and what he had made of his life. What is basically a very simple and straightforward story becomes suspenseful and full of mystery when told in interspersing fast-forward and fast-reverse.

Of course, now I need to watch it about ten more times to see if I understand it.

i just don’t like this movie.

I could watch this movie 100 times and not get tired of it. I think watching this makes you aware of the limitations and faults in your own memory.

I just watched this alongside a reading of Oliver Sacks’ “The Lost Mariner.”

i think i suffer from some sort of memory problem, not quite the same as in the film. i think that my memory has to be prompted by something in the environment to remember. my memories are there, they just aren’t easily extracted…

anyhoo, liked the film a lot. i watch films extrememly naively which i think is kind of a good thing. so in this film although i didn’t believe everything i was being told i was still swept along by the twists. which is fun. it is entertainment after all…