Christopher Nolan's Signature Film | Memento

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With 'Tenet' on the horizon, for this video essay we look at Christopher Nolan's breakout film 'Memento', which turns 20 this year. We explore the film's themes, as well as it's cinematic lineage.
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@TheDiscardedImage 4 года назад

Are you convinced? Is 'Memento' Nolan's signature film or do you disagree?

@andrelaguna5494 3 года назад

Yes, I agree. A self-contained film that came to life from a short story, equally self-contained. When Nolan expanded the scale of his next films, he let some of their elements to slip by: too many characters, too long, too many details. Memento is perfect because it is a brilliant idea executed in a small scale narrative.

@michaeldepinto3562 2 года назад

Yes

@nihil8712 2 года назад

@lionofjudah6753 4 года назад

I had never thought of "I've done it" as having multi-layered meaning before! Even the supposed moment of clarity conceals more than it reveals. Just brilliant.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

thanks, that's good to hear!

@lionofjudah6753 4 года назад

Great analysis of how the form IS the message. Truly Nolan's best work.

@dealerovski82 4 года назад

I never liked Memento, should I rewatch it?

@crispouk3070 4 года назад

One million percent. I don’t watch a lot of films. But this is a masterpiece. Absolute astounding film

@dealerovski82 4 года назад

@@crispouk3070 But you have seen all Nolans work right?

@crispouk3070 4 года назад

Daniel Filippus yes. He is my favourite director. This is by far (in my opinion) his most creative piece, even if it was his first. The actual effect it had on me while watching it, the eerie feeling of going mad. It’s spooky how great of an effect he creates. I’m still in awe over this film, just can’t fathom how you would even start to design this as a writer. And execute it so perfectly. Hope you enjoy it more this time dude

@panrebrand8233 4 года назад

I was going to make my own vid-essay on Memento today after reviewing it yesterday, but after this material I feel weaponless.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

do it! great films stand up to constant re-evaluation and recontextualisation. but thank you for the huge compliment all the same.

@gleb4674 4 года назад

I absolutely agree that "Memento" may very well be Nolan's greatest piece of work, which captures his true talent and obsession for cinema. P. S. What are your thoughts on "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk"?

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

huge ambition and superlative filmmaking but sometimes undone by overcomplication (more Dunkirk) and bizarre narrative choices (more Interstellar). but, given the super-conservative, IP-driven trend of modern Hollywood, we need more filmmakers like Nolan swinging for the fences, even if they don't always hit it out of the park - though clearly many think he does succeed pretty much every time.

@santiagomarshall1447 4 года назад

66k! This content deserves millions of subscribers.

@Alan_Wigz 4 года назад

Go and tell as many people as you can...

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

@@Alan_Wigz yep.

@OTOss8 Год назад

I had the good fortune of working in a movie theatre while we had this film and I can say, without hesitation, this is the film I slipped in to watch the most once my shift was done. If I've seen it once, I've seen it at least 50 times. It never, ever got old. Small edit: We had Snatch around the same time (I'm sure someone can check the dates) and I watched that sucker nearly as much as this one.

@bimmovieproductions6352 4 года назад

very interesting, I don't know if this is entirely related to the topic at hand, but I think 8 1/2 mixed reality and dream in a very interesting way that made us the audience really think about what was real and not, and how it affected the story. The film is also full of flash backs which all give a lot of thematic significance.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

you're absolutely right and it's funny that you mention Fellini... watch this space!

@NayimU 4 года назад

Fully agree, its still on my top ten list.

@bryapro 4 года назад

Great analysis, thanks for sharing!

@loveforeignaccents 4 года назад

I am super excited, as I love, love, love this movie!!

@golu_badbola 4 года назад

Time is the narrator in Nolan's movies. Its just that Nolan uses this plot device to its full potential.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

woah! that concept is going to mess with my mind for a good while...

@jcjcviews 11 месяцев назад

Just making notes to myself: Black and white imprints the idea of newspaper print as the truth, "it was in black and white," they say. And thus we have night and day. Sordid and the Revealed. As for color, we have light; we move into the revealed based on having a brighter, lighter sense of being, evoking another question: Are films in color necessary to make things appear "more real." One thinks of propaganda. Mememto. It's a brilliant puzzle for exercising the brain. Now, the final question: is it entertaining? Hahaha.

@Armakk 4 года назад

Nice work, Leigh. Best look at this film I've seen yet.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

you're too kind, Armakk, thank you!

@jorgereyna1796 4 года назад

well done

@tupaicindjeke275 4 года назад

I hope we get another Nolan movie after TENET

@kiranramanujam5264 4 года назад

Height of analysis ...

@temperuncentered1753 4 года назад

This movie some of the best films ever made in history.truly brilliant.tarantino and scorsece do not even come close to this

@oneum88 2 года назад

Thank you for speaking so slowly

@lactroc11 4 года назад

great

@sidious501 4 года назад

This was the Memento breakdown video I was looking for

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

thanks, that's great to hear!

@voteforno.6155 4 года назад

Good stuff

@josevelasco216 4 года назад

Your film and director analysis are really good. Specially those about what´s fun for some directors, like Wes Anderson or the Coen Brothers. I think we really need a video on Yorgos Lanthimos´humor!

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

love the Coens and Lanthimos, consider them added to my (ever-growing) wish list. and thank you!

@aserr5660 4 года назад

Is it true they're working on a sequel?

@keshavbhanu5788 3 года назад

Prestige was nolans best

@filmdetective 4 года назад

Marvelous

@movedmindpoRUSZonyUMYS 4 года назад

Brilliant!

@daron9229 4 года назад

Is this ASMR? Parents sleeping in an adjacent room? Why are you whispering?

@TheWritersNest 4 года назад

ASMR video essays. I think you're onto something my man.

@mononokehte 4 года назад

Love it

@ianmay9372 4 года назад

imma go ahead and stick this one in my top 10, and bump shutter island off the list. What a film, Nolan highest point. i do hope tenet is gonna be good, and not fall to the hype

@TheMutantMindframe 4 года назад

what's the movie at 5:37

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

that's Peppermint Candy (1999) an early film from the great South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, whose Poetry and Burning are, for me, two of the best of the 2010s. do check them out if you haven't seen them, both just superb.

@howard130 4 года назад

Amazing video🔥

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

thanks Howard!

@Blankford777 4 года назад

Umm...what?

@neelabhpandey8956 4 года назад

What are the names of those french movies in the video ? Plz tell me if someone knows

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

the two Alain Resnais movies are Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961). in many ways very different to Memento, but definitely connections there in terms of time and structure. not easy watches, but would highly recommend them.

@Dayvit78 4 года назад

@@L3i6HSin63R In this video he compares them side by side. It's clear Nolan saw those films before making Memento. Now I'm going to have to check them out too.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

@@Dayvit78 yes, I know - I made the video! but do check out the Resnais films, they're pretty groundbreaking and influential.

@Dayvit78 4 года назад

@@L3i6HSin63R :) I don't know how I hadn't heard of him before. Thanks for the recommendation!

@kiskalacs 4 года назад

The narrator’s half whispering half timid voice is really offputting. It gives me the wrong types of shivers, it’s like an anti-ASMR video essay. Really good writing, interesting points but I couldn’t bear listening for another 7 mins. Shame.

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

*timid whisper* thanks for part-watching, David!

@highwind1991 4 года назад

while it's true that Memento premiered at the Venice film festival in the year 2000, it wasn't actually released theatrically until early 2001

@Trakinasnove 4 года назад

This was a great video that explains why people like Memento, but I still hate this movie, I think it's bad, boring and told in a dumb way. But hey, great video none the less!

@L3i6HSin63R 4 года назад

err, thanks Marcelo!