In todays lesson we watched the opening sequences of two films; Memento and Insomnia, both films have the same genre, Thriller!
Memento is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his brother Jonathonss short story "Memento Mori". It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary.
Insomnia is about a local 17-year-old girl named Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe)who is found murdered in a small fishing town of Alaska. Two LAPD detectives, Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent up to assist the local police with their investigation.
I will be talking about Memento.
I think Memento was succesful as it had a non linear plot. As soon as the film started it went back to where he was in the motel room, which is in black and white, symbolising his memories. The goes back to colour again to show what happens next, which i find really effective. Memento had 2 Oscar nominations, another 42 wins and 32 nominations, so other viewers thought it was effective too. (Video unavailable at present time)
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