Week 5: Momento

This week's task is to analyse the first 30 minutes of the film "momento", starring guy pearce, in terms of character, setting and direction set-up.

The film is unorthodox in the sense that it plays backward. Now I know what your thinking... You do know the ending BUT you don't know how it all happened, which is what keeps the audience watching.

It begins with leonard (don't call him Lenny) killing a man. Ultimately, this is the end of the film, but each scene starts about 5 minutes before the begining of the previous scene, so the movie keeps revealing and reverting back, revealing and reverting back. Its confusing for about 7 minutes but then you get the hang of it.

Early on we learn that Lenord has a bizarre condition where he has no short term memory. We also find out that he tattoos himself with clues and facts about something. This "something" is later found out to be Leonards search to find and kill the man that raped and murdered his wife, who is also responsible for his condition.

Its quite a challenging movie to watch, however the plot eventually ties in at about the 20 minute mark and everything starts to make sense.

I definitely recomend it.