Revision on What to Choose, What to Choose?

     Well, I have now watched the movie Memento for the first time this past Friday. It was a very good movie, but it was kind of difficult for me to understand it all fully. I think I need to watch it a few more times so I can hopefully better understand it.
     As far as classic noir characteristics, there of course was the scenes that were shown in black and white, and the Neo noir twist on it is of course the colored scenes. There is also the classic noir factor of the fragment and non linear narrative way of organizing the scenes. Within the movie you of course have the protagonist Leonard, whom is also partially the detective in the film. It has the crime that we have also come to tie in with noir as well. Something that is very frequently used in the movie, are the flashbacks. The whole movie actually consists of constant flashbacks from present to past, since the movie is told in a backward sequence. The odd thing about this movie is that the "detective" which again is also the protagonist has had an injury which has caused him to have a form of memory loss, or memory dysfunction, so the clues he finds can't necessarily be trusted 100%. This movie has lots of classic and Neo noir qualities and should be a good choice for this final research paper.
     At this point I'm a bit confused about the movie, but apart from that I found the movie to be very entertaining and I'm glad I finally watched it. Now onto the paper.



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What to Choose, What to Choose?

There were lots of movies to choose from for the Final research paper and presentation, but after briefly reading about a few of them, I was able to narrow it down to Memento, Brick, and Seven...but I ended up picking Memento. The thing is I have never seen this movie, so I will be doing that shortly. I've seen Seven numerous times and I love it, but I thought it would be a good idea to try something new. The fact that it has great reviews helped a lot too, in some articles it said that it was the best movie that year it was released, so that definitely caught my attention. The comments I read about the movie specified also that it fell into the noir genre and since that's the premise of the movie we were to pick for the paper, it was perfect. Since I haven't seen the movie yet, I don't have many details about the movie and why it falls into the noir category and why it's a good choice for the paper, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the movie and being able to decipher the noir qualities that I have come to understand through out class. One of the comments I found about the movie mentioned that watching the movie once wasn't enough, that it was a bit involved and that just watching it once wouldn't do. I will probably have to watch it at least a couple of times to really get all the hidden messages and clues the director included. According to what I've heard, it should be quite entertaining. My sources will include the movie itself, 3 movie analysis I obtained online and movie reviews. It's amazing what information and ideas are available when seeing things from anothers perspective.