MEMENTO

If you're a person who doesn't have trust issues, then clearly you've never seen the movie 'Memento'. From the moment the film begins, the audience is completely lost.  We begin at the ending which transitions to the beginning in the next scene and after that scene we begin at the endings beginning that we saw in the beginning. Confused yet? Well have fun. Now while editing to this movie is very strange and confusing, the film wouldn't have been the same without it. Don't I won't leave you with just that vague explanation: Each new colored scene ends where the scene before began. In other words, each new scene is chronologically one step before the scene it follows. To make things more complicated, mixed into these colored scenes, are black and white sequences of (chronologically) the first scene. If this movie was shot from beginning to end, the first b&w scene would be the first scene in the movie. Now another reason this style of editing makes the film so fascinating is the plot twist that takes place at the end of the movie. Or should I say the middle of the film

You might be asking why anyone, ever would want to watch a film like this? It's all very confusing but I think that it gives the viewer a sense of how the main character feels. Lenard can't make new memories so whenever his train of thought starts over again, he's disoriented and lost. That's what it's goal was. To make the audience feel lost and disoriented. As your watching the film you never know which characters are lying or if their story has just been distorted. Now granted part of the plot twist is very confusing and even you prepared for the editing style, you'll still be very confused.

Now while I haven't seen this film, I have heard a lot (and seen clips) about the style of 'Inception' Both films move you along the story at a smooth(ish) pace. And through the whole film you have no idea if everything happening is real or just in the main characters head.