Re: RE : Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Memento

From: Nathan Cain ( IndieCrime@gmail.com)
Date: 15 Feb 2008


I think where Irreversible failed was with the characters. I didn't really care about them. If the events had been presented in chronological order it would have been completely uninteresting. Guy Pearce's character in Memento, on the other hand, was sympathetic. I felt for his situation and his problems, and I think the movie was much more successful at driving home the point of the pointlessness of revenge, which was theme I think both films were trying to make.

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> In a message dated 2/14/08 6:11:56 AM, fabsoldini@yahoo.fr writes:
> > Irreversible is certainly no Memento. Memento is endlessly watchable and
> Irreversible makes you want to bury the DVD under your house. but what's
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> beatific at fade out. almost like a happy ending if you didn't have the
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