Memento Is Christopher Nolan's Best Movie That Deals With Time
There are many filmmakers who have risen to the notoriety that reaches those outside the film industry. The list of filmmakers that anyone would recognize contains Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and several others, including English filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan has been a huge component of some of the most well-known and successful films of the last decade. Aside from superhero films including The Dark Knight trilogy, many of Nolan's films share a common component. Of the stories Nolan has crafted, many of his films play with the conception of time.
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Some of Nolan's most infamous time-oriented films include Memento, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet. Except for Memento, all of these films have won at least one Academy Award. Even without an Academy Award, Memento holds the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, only ranking second among all of Nolan's films behind The Dark Knight. Nolan deals with time in such an innovative fashion in so many of his films, but Memento remains his best time-bending narrative over 20 years after its premiere.
Memento stars Guy Pearce in the lead role of Leonard, a man with anterograde amnesia brought upon by an attack from two men that he recounts are responsible for the death of his wife. Throughout Memento, Nolan uses both color and black-and-white sequences to separate the progression of time. The scenes in color, work backward, while the black-and-white scenes move forward. In the color sequences, Nolan sprinkles in just enough information that explains the current state of Leonard's
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