Some memories are best forgotten

Product Image: Memento
My rating: 4 out of 5

Point blank in the head a man shoots another. In flashbacks, each one earlier in time than what we’ve just seen, the two men’s pasts unfold. Leonard, as a result of a blow to the head during an assault on his wife, has no short-term memory. He’s looking for his wife’s killer, compensating for his disability by taking Polaroids, annotating them and tattooing important facts on his body. We meet the loquacious Teddy and the seductive Natalie (a barmaid who promises to help) and we glimpse Leonard’s wife through memories from before the assault. Leonard also talks about Sammy Jankis, a man he knew with a similar condition. Has Leonard found the killer? Who’s manipulating whom?

Underbar film. Överaskade mig verkligen när den kom 2000. Tycker den är den näst bästa filmen som kom det årdet, efter Requiem for a Dream. Enormt cool idé med att visa filmen “baklänges”. Härligt också med ett väldigt öppet slut.

Welcome to the Real World

Product Image: The Matrix
My rating: 4 out of 5

Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life–in what he thinks is the year 1999–until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life–the “Matrix”–to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by “Agents” (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as “The One” who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.

Detta är den första DVD jag köpte. Köpte den så “tidigt” att när jag köpte en DVD-spelare till datorn för att se denn visade det sig att mitt grafikkort var för slött. Hade inga problem när jag nu kände för att se filmtrilogin igen på projektorn. Fortfarande lika bra. Men 2:an och 3:an kändes faktiskt bättre nu. Mycket härlig popcorn-action 🙂