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Memento (runtime 1:53:32) - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2026-07-04 16:00:06
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Happy Saturday! I hope you're all having a relaxing weekend ❤️Because if you're about to watch this movie with us... it's going to get a lot less relaxing haha. This movie was mind blowing! We both really loved it. Any sort of movie that puts us into this sort of "detective" mind set is soooo much fun. We're glad you guys recommended this one, so if you have more mind bending films, let us know! YouTube: https://youtu.be/MeMQ0rHQhxs

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Memento (runtime 1:53:32) - Patreon Version

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John Colson

It truly is Nolan Month! I recommend checking out Insomnia. It's an underrated film of his but it has Al Pacino and Robin Williams.

penoyer79

my introduction to Nolan. A neat little movie with a farily straight forward story but with the ingenius gimmick of putting us in the character's shoes by telling the story backwards. i have the special addition DVD with an interactive menu that is quite puzzley. it has a few different director commentaries you can access.. and each one Chris Nolan gives different explanations about the ending and the whole plot. and each one is completely thought out and defendable. which means he intentionally but an ambigious ending with an unreliable narrator... and wants the audience to come to their own conclusions. most people i talk to seem to take the stance that lenny killed his wife with the insulin. but i keep coming back to the emphasis on his memory being fine before the attack. so i have trouble with that one. i find it the least believable actually.

Thadman

I haven't seen this since I saw it in the theater because, it being a mystery, I didn't need to rewatch it again until I'd forgotten the details. Now that my memory is for crap, I CAN WATCH IT AGAIN!.😁

Sam

But, Lenny makes the point that the memory is fallible—"it can change the shape of a room or the color of a car". So when he says "I remember everything before the incident" it contradicts his own principle.

Sam

In terms of Nolan movies that have a relatively complicated mystery element, I'd suggest The Prestige or Tenet. Another brain achingly good film is Primer. from Esquire: "anybody who claims he fully understands what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar"... I question that even a savant would get it the first time round :)

AzraRillian

if I had to recommend other mind bending thrillers like this, i'd suggest the following: Shutter Island Primer Mulholland Drive

pinkdino99

This blew our minds when we first saw it putting Nolan right at the forefront when his new movies were announced. And then we heard he was doing Batman.

Jeffrey Fisher

Great surprise! I was just watching some YT videos about this movie yesterday, hoping that you guys would get to it. I've been looking for an excuse to sit down and rewatch it ever since you started on the Nolan films. *UPDATE* Just finished my watch along. You're 100% correct in that you now have to watch it again, knowing what you already know. Even watching the chronological cut, this movie holds up. It's amazing. Did you notice the transition at the end from black and white to color as the two timelines finally merge together? I had a friend introduce this movie to me not long after it came out, specifically because she knew I was a big movie guy, and she was surprised I had never heard of it. Needless to say, I watched it twice, back to back, fell in love with it, and it's still one of my favorite Nolan films. He has so many incredible films. When you guys started your Nolan journey, I really hoped this would be one you watched. ❤ Also, The Dark Knight this week? What a great time to be you! I'm just glad to be here for the ride, watching you guys discover these great films together.

pinkdino99

+100. I'd Add American Beauty, Angel Heart (heh), Arrival, mother!, Donnie Darko, Identity (seriously... this is frikkin' mind bendingly awesome !), Michael Clayton (EXCELLENT), Pleasantville (adorable), Stoker, Sucker Punch, The Game (Fincher), The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer X-Men), Weapons - each of these will turn your brains inside out

James M

Wow this is a surprise all right. OK this is possibly the most successful completely postmodern movie made. He leverages the mental condition to rearrange nature of the story and we spend a lot of time trying to rearrange it into a traditional narrative the first watch. That's the mistake we make. SO you literally have to watch it a second time without trying to sort it into a linear narrative and just watch it unfold. You have to do a lot less "figure it out" thinking and a lot more thinking about what the meaning of the things are that happen as they happen. It's a complicated story but a simple one. It's a puzzle but not a puzzle. Try explaining to someone what this film is so that they will have a good idea of what they will see. It's not really possible. This is one of the films I really like to watch but find it mentally exhausting because so much is happening even though so little happens. The noir narrative that people are not what they seem is the essence of this story, but in a way that completely deconstructs the noir principles. In film noir we are challenged to find out the secret, the killer, the location of the special thing, the real truth behind it all. And this story is about all those things but it breaks them into fragments that are astonishing. The real truth is that you won't ever get the real truth. The secret of the murderer is that they don't exist. The bad actor who is misleading you at every step is yourself. This weird relationship of the story to the noir metanarrative is astonishing. You find out the movie is not at all what it claims to be while also being exactly what it claims to be. Because there is ultimately a murder. Watch it again and think about how it relates to noir movies. It's amazing.

AzraRillian

oh yeah, forgot about Donnie Darko and Usual Suspects, definitely a thumbs up on those

WastedPo

I'd like to recommend "Predestination." It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, and I'm not even sure I consider it good or just bizarre. But it's certainly memorable.

AzraRillian

also, thought I'd mention some fun facts. This movie is based on a short story that was written by Chris' brother Jonathan Nolan, whom you should be familiar with as the producer on the Fallout tv show. I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend another Jonathan Nolan tv show - Person of Interest, which in my opinion is a solid show throughout, unlike his other show, Westworld, which is still fantastic, but i lost interest in the later seasons.

David Harvey

Jordan and Chandra - "Memento" is an early Christopher Nolan Masterpiece based on the short story "Momento Mori" that Nolan's brother wrote. There's a two-way time structure on the film too! This film put Nolan on the map and it garnered a couple of Oscar Nominations. "Memento (2000) is a neo-noir psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan about Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man with anterograde amnesia who can't form new memories and uses tattoos, notes, and photos to hunt for his wife's murderer. The film is famous for its unique, non-linear structure, telling its story in two interwoven sequences: one in color that runs backward in time, and one in black-and-white that runs forward, meeting at the end to form a complete narrative. It was critically acclaimed for its clever plot and themes of memory, perception, and self-deception, earning Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing." Dave

WastedPo

What? I've literally never heard of "Momento" by Nolan. At first, I thought you'd just misspelled "Memento."

David Harvey

Thanks for catching the typo. I fixed it.

WastedPo

Yeah, if Lenny's story supposedly matches the story he told about Sammy, then that means that after the attack/incident, the wife physically recovered, and Lenny would've continued to inject his wife with insulin. Only now (because Lenny is injured) he would've then put his wife in a coma because (like Sammy's wife) she was trying to gauge how severe his condition was. Which come to think of it, is pretty back luck for Lenny's wife. In that scenario, she not only got attacked, and had to recover from that, but then had to go through her husband suffering memory loss, culminating in her husband putting her in a coma via insulin.

James W.

Nolan makes great films but this by far still my favorite of his whole catalog. I wonder sometimes if he wakes up in a sweat realizing that his most interesting film was one of his first. Just to be clear he makes great movies, I even like Tenet which gets shit way too much. I just feel Memento has the best narrative execution. His other films have an insane level of polish and presentation as he move from project to project, but conceptually they are often lacking in comparison. I'm not sure if you can still find it anywhere but I there was a DVD feature for this movie where you can watch it linearly, as opposed to backwards as presented. Might be a fun way to rewatch. I am very happy in the seas of relatively emptyheaded movies we get, there are directors like Nolan Villeneuve who make us fire some neurons when we watch their work.

James M

A few people recommended some similar movies. For me the complex relationship to classic noir mystery is the core of this movie. For one that's similar in that regard see "Broken Flowers" (2005) by Jim Jarmusch.

James M

Whether his wife died because of insulin he administered or she died after the attack, either would have happened after he was hit in the head. You can't really say the second was true because he remembered it from before being hit.

N.T. Stars

Wait, neither of you mentioned The Matrix. You have seen The Matrix... right?

OddThomas

The Prestige, Predestination, Shutter Island, Mulholland Drive, eXistenZ, The Village, Oblivion, Identity

Stephen Zepp

+1 to The Game, and Identity. Primer is worth a watch as well, but even harder to follow than this one was.

pinkdino99

You missed out. Westworld rewards your patient attention. You can't sit there on your phone "watching" it.

AzraRillian

That's probably fair, I just fell off during season 4, but I do plan to revisit the show at some point. I still think it's a great show, I just personally liked Person of Interest better overall, of those two shows.

WastedPo

Oh, funny. I wasn't even trying to be sarcastic in my comment. I literally thought that there was a Nolan movie called "Momento" that he did before Memento.

David Harvey

The Film was based on a short story written by Nolan's Brother titled "Memento Mori" which is Latin for "remember that you must die".

Alpa Chino

When this movie originally came out- This is the era when I really like Nolan and his films. Next I highly recommend 'Insomnia'.

penoyer79

hard to picture leonard just langushing aimless around the house like sammy.

penoyer79

it all just comes down to personal taste really. all of his movies are well made. I'm probably the only person on the planet that likes Dark Knight Rises over Dark Knight. I appreciate and respect the big swing Nolan took with Tenet, even though it's my least favorite of his.. though i do need to watch it again. I also didn't enjoy Insomia and Prestige as nuch as his other films.

penoyer79

those are my least favorite nolan movies lol. petty beefing self-absorbed magicians in the 19th century trying to one-up and steal eachother stuff just didn't engage my interest. wasnt a story that was for me. i appreciat Tenet's ambitious big swing but i dont think they nailed it. Insomia felt a bit slow for me.

penoyer79

im old enough to remember when it was announced he cast heath ledger as joker and everyone completely lost their shit. "wtf is his thinking!" lol now that is the most over mythologized performance in the world

James W.

Right on, I think Rises is decent, and didn't deserve the hate it got. I like it more than Begins, and I feel like it was good way to cap off Nolan's Batman run. I haven't seen Following or Oppenheimer, but Prestige was "fine" but not something I feel the need to revisit. I don't know why but I really like David Bowie as Tesla, that one of the things that stuck with me after. I haven't seen Insomnia in like 15+ years but even back then I wasn't that into it; I should rewatch and see if I dig it now. Dunkirk was fine but has less resonance with mew as I am not English. It was a good watch but have no need to see it ever again. I am the weirdo who liked Tenet. I was a narrative mess but I liked what he tried to do. I won't defend because there are so many valid criticisms, I just know I liked it. I think as a longtime sci-fi nerd I was able to fill in gaps that in the story so it didn't break my immersion of watch it. For others I think they got stuck on new or weird concepts.

pinkdino99

I'm old enough to remember that happening with Michael Keaton !