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I absolutely loved this movie for its unique format! Basically the movie’s about someone trying to avenge the death of his wife, but he has no short term memory, so he cannot remember anything since his accident that didn’t happen within the last 15 minutes or so unless he writes a note. The brilliant part is the movie is played backwards, so a scene is played, and then the scene preceding it is played. This means that every time the main character wakes up and doesn’t know why he is there or what has happened, the audience doesn’t either. They find out what preceded it in the next scene, an interesting look into causality. You know how sometimes you watch a movie, and near the end they reveal something that has been going on all along, like the whole time something was a scam? That happens easily dozens of times in this movie. I highly reccomend this to anyone who likes to think a little when they watch a movie, but still be able to get lost into the world the director has created for them.

The last movie I wrote about was “The Shawshank Redemption,” which showed how sometimes the only way to keep sane is to have hope. It showed the beauty of hope. This movie showed its dark side. On top of showing your average junkies destroying their lives looking for a high, it showed a someone who you wouldn’t expect to be using drugs, a sweet old elderly woman. Without spoiling the movie, I’ll try to tell you essentially what happens. This elderly woman spends most of her time in front of the TV, and one day gets an invitation to appear on her favorite show. She wants to lose some weight to fit in a red dress for her appearance, so after trying dieting and failing, she goes to a doctor who tells her to take some pills that he gives her. She is an old woman with nothing left in her life to live for except this one hope to appear on her favorite TV show. Her diet pills start destroying her, causing her to even hallucinate that her fridge is trying to attack her. Her state continually worsens, and her son even tells her that these are street drugs and pleads her to stop, but she doesn’t. She is still holding onto this sole hope in her life, and it consumes and destroys her. I say this is the ugly side of hope, because she was fine before this false hope entered her life. The opposite can be argued though, that while false hopes are devastating, the real problem is she had no real hope left to turn to. Please leave your opinion, I’m gonna stay content straddling the fence until I can come back to this issue and think about it some more.

I just watched it, it’s currently #2 on the list, so I don’t know why I didn’t get around to it sooner. It was a wonderfully well done movie, one of those movies that is so good it’s hard for me to really convey the essence of it. I love movies that make me think about or appreciate life, and this movie just hit the spot with me. An innocent man damned to spending his life behind bars and still keeping his hope is a beautiful thing.