Memento By and large, it must be said that Memento isn’t terribly demanding on an intellectual level. While it indeed wrestles with weighty themes of identity, reality, and perception, there’s also more approachable angles of grief and revenge onto which an audience can more easily latch. Not that the cinematic pop-philosophising is at all too [...]
Note: Having only see Memento, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan isn’t exactly a filmmaker with whom I’m terribly familiar. So I thought that it would be an interesting exercise to go back and watch all of the films he directed as part of my preparation for Inception, a movie which, if the [...]
Originally written on July, 5, 2010. Also available as a guest post on Blue Ink Alchemy (which is, in fact, why I ended up writing this). Knight and Day There are people out there who would have you believe that a film which is likely to have no lasting impact on its audience, a film [...]