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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Momento


Momento is about a man who has anterograde amnesia. Anterigrade Amnesia is a loss to create new memories, which can lead to partial or complete inability to recall the past memories. As they explain in the movie his amnesia is a result from a hit to the head from two men who attack him in his house. It starts out in black and white and it turns to color towards the end of the movie. What makes this movie different then any other movie is that the ending starts out the movie.
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  1. JeanneMarch 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM

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  2. JeanneMarch 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    I needed to do a little research to find this this movie. It sounds very interesting so I'll be trying to find this.

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  3. maryredayMarch 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    Christina, movies like this one where the ending is actually the beginning are sometimes hard to follow when you first start watching them. It is usually really hard to figure out that you are actually watching the end of the movie in the beginning until the movie is over. Then at the end of the movie people react by saying "Wow", I never would have figured that out. This was an interesting post about these types of movies. Mary Ann Reday.

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  4. EmanuelMarch 23, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    Great post Christina. I love this movie. It is my personal favorite. Christopher Nolan did an excellent job in unfolding the story in two ways, with both black and white scenes cut together with color scenes. The scenes do not “start in black and white and turns to color towards the end of the movie” like you claim. The black and white scenes are in chronological order but the color scenes are in reverse order. They are intermixed so the audience does not know what has just happened, kind of like the state that the main character Leonard is in. The movie is very well done and even the DVD menu adds to the strangeness of the film. It made me think how difficult life would be without the ability to make new memories.

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  5. Monica GuimaraesMarch 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM

    Movies like this always make me think. I haven't seen this movie, but it looks very interesting. I like these types of movies once in a while to remind me of how some people might live.

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