Watch Timecrimes.Its a nice film too.
And watch The Others.Climax is too good.
And watch The Others.Climax is too good.
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If you liked Memento you should watch.......
Well if it is the postmodern genre of "not knowing what is truth and what is not" you enjoy, Donnie Darko is a true winner. Awesome film.
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Memento reminded me of Se7en. Both modern classics, with very dark themes.
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Yea that was a really great moveigangefan83 wrote:Memento reminded me of Se7en. Both modern classics, with very dark themes.
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Definitely agree that if like "Memento" should watch "Mulholland Drive"; it has the same extraordinary juxtapositioning of different levels or models of reality, the shifts between them, etc, even if only once, what a "once"!: ... ... ... ( Possible Spoiler Alert! ) the moment when she opens the box with the little blue key, wow!
Other films with the same interest in models of reality, the stories that we tell ourselves, ( aswell as "The Prestige" of course :lol ), are "Avalon", ( by Mamoru Oshi ), "Dark City", "Brazil", "Synecdoche, New York", "Matrix", and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
I think that what distinguishes them from many other brilliant films in which one apparently rock solid "story" or model of reality is shockingly exposed before the end ( eg. "The Usual Suspects", "The Sixth Sense", "The Others", which someone mentioned, and "Don't Look Now" ), is that they are about that experience itself; their "story" is about our tendency to tell ourselves stories, to in fact, unavoidably, *live in* stories/models and confuse them with the "one ( indescribable, ungraspable ) reality".
The interesting thing is how the different films "suggest" that we should, or do, react to this. What do we do when we realise that we live in a model?
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Other films with the same interest in models of reality, the stories that we tell ourselves, ( aswell as "The Prestige" of course :lol ), are "Avalon", ( by Mamoru Oshi ), "Dark City", "Brazil", "Synecdoche, New York", "Matrix", and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
I think that what distinguishes them from many other brilliant films in which one apparently rock solid "story" or model of reality is shockingly exposed before the end ( eg. "The Usual Suspects", "The Sixth Sense", "The Others", which someone mentioned, and "Don't Look Now" ), is that they are about that experience itself; their "story" is about our tendency to tell ourselves stories, to in fact, unavoidably, *live in* stories/models and confuse them with the "one ( indescribable, ungraspable ) reality".
The interesting thing is how the different films "suggest" that we should, or do, react to this. What do we do when we realise that we live in a model?
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I agree. But, Brazil was a freaking weird movie.ouinon wrote:Definitely agree that if like "Memento" should watch "Mulholland Drive"; it has the same extraordinary juxtapositioning of different levels or models of reality, the shifts between them, etc, even if only once, what a "once"!: ... ... ... ( Possible Spoiler Alert! ) the moment when she opens the box with the little blue key, wow!
Other films with the same interest in models of reality, the stories that we tell ourselves, ( aswell as "The Prestige" of course :lol ), are "Avalon", ( by Mamoru Oshi ), "Dark City", "Brazil", "Synecdoche, New York", "Matrix", and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
I think that what distinguishes them from many other brilliant films in which one apparently rock solid "story" or model of reality is shockingly exposed before the end ( eg. "The Usual Suspects", "The Sixth Sense", "The Others", which someone mentioned, and "Don't Look Now" ), is that they are about that experience itself; their "story" is about our tendency to tell ourselves stories, to in fact, unavoidably, *live in* stories/models and confuse them with the "one ( indescribable, ungraspable ) reality".
The interesting thing is how the different films "suggest" that we should, or do, react to this. What do we do when we realise that we live in a model?
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gosh..! I still get headache when I think back to watching that movierbevanx wrote:I watched Brick in the cinema and loved it, so original and really well made.
Another film that I felt was similar to Memento was a film called Primer.
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Nolan has stated that the script was floating around when he tried to get Memento made, and it does have some notable similarities (writing down memories/activities). It also stars Inception's Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Nolan has stated that the script was floating around when he tried to get Memento made, and it does have some notable similarities (writing down memories/activities). It also stars Inception's Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
