I saw Memento few years ago and I like it. It's a very
amazing movie. There is a French movie, made later, which
uses that king of narrative form. It's "Irr鶥rsible" by
Gaspard No鬠with Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci. The film
begins by the end, an very violent and savage murder in a
night-club. And the spectator learns what happens before and
before, the explanation of that murder. It is not excatly a
crime movie but it's very noir and cruel: there is a rape
scene very hard. But the central thema, in my opinion, is the
destruction of a couple, in a very short time, perhaps ten
hours. But that movie uses a criminal storie and very violent
scenes to express that.
Fabienne
Jack Bludis <
buildsnburns@yahoo.com> a 飲it :
I
accidentally stumbled acrosss the movie "Memento" last night.
I had never seen it and never been able to find it at local
video stores.
It's an interesting presentation with an inside out plot that
has to be deciphered by the viewer but will never be
deciphered by the lead who has an extreme case of short-term
memory loss. If you put it together chronologically (as well
as you could) it would be a kind of sad-sack noir.
Some of it doesn't hang together, but so what. Still
interesting. The beginning of the movie is the end of the
story, the end of the movie is the beginning of the story,
and in context Carrie-Anne Moss (of the Matrix Trilogy) is as
bitch of a femme fatale as their ever was.
The lead, Guy Pierce, was one of the detectives in the movie
"L.A. Confidential" and I understand he will be playing the
lead in the movie of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." (I looked
it up.)
For those who recommended it, thanks.
A nice pic for a Rare Bird to stumble over when he's spinning
the dial. I have no idea what network it was on.
Jack Bludis
http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
http://jackbludis.com/
Recent Story at http://backalleywebzine.com/
__________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
---------------------------------
Ne gardez plus qu'une seule adresse mail ! Copiez vos
mails vers Yahoo! Mail
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 14 Feb 2008 EST