[Movie Review] Memento (2000) & Twentynine Palms (2003)

Fig. 1: Poster of the movie Memento 

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Got some time this afternoon to watch an old movie, Memento, directed by my favorite director Christopher Nolan. The very first impression that this movie has left to me is, once again, Nolan used cross-cutting and backward story-telling skills to narrate the running of the events. These skills are very typical in Nolan’s other representative movies, such as Inception, The Prestige. The movie itself is a fairly awesome product with appealing pilots and mixed threads. You couldn't predict what would happen next, and meanwhile, it is also brain-burning. I really enjoy following the movie and focusing myself to constantly investigating the underlying truth that is otherwise hidden. Overall, I strongly recommend it to those who feel like exploring and disentangling the threads of the events to find the ground truth.

Fig. 2: Snapshot from movie Twenty Palms

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It is such an awkward movie that at most of time, David Wissak (male co-star) and Katia Golubevamale (female co-star) are either fighting or fucking. Their travel to the city named Twentynine Palms, is originally aimed at shooting a photo cover for magazine, however, it turns out that they do nothing to investigate the area, instead they had fun anywhere.  At the final closing time, the interruptive bad guy erupts and kills them both. Personally,  it conveys no ideas but an immortal line says “Someday, I want to see you pee…”, it is really confusing to me and I did not know what message this movie want to express.  From my perspective, this is a really horrible movie, if not deadly awful.