I finally saw Memento this week and felt this movie has taken Modern Film Noir to a new extreme. While the characters have always felt a sense of dislocation and alienation from reality (The Third Man, Fargo), this is the first movie I've seen where the audience is the one who feels alienated and dislocated from the story. The main character contained a sense of ironic humor toward the end, while we, the audience, simply left the theatre and wondered how the director got away with manipulating and "playing" our own reality. Good Movie (without even mentioning the narrative structure).
I finally saw Memento this week and felt this movie has taken Modern Film Noir to a new extreme. While the characters have always felt a sense of dislocation and alienation from reality (The Third Man, Fargo), this is the first movie I've seen where the audience is the one who feels alienated and dislocated from the story. The main character contained a sense of ironic humor toward the end, while we, the audience, simply left the theatre and wondered how the director got away with manipulating and "playing" our own reality. Good Movie (without even mentioning the narrative structure).