{"id":141,"date":"2001-05-04T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2001-05-05T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=141"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:27:28","slug":"memento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/05\/04\/memento\/","title":{"rendered":"Memento"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10484,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000640SA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311063342\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000640SA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0000640SA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:28:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:28:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16976,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000068DBC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314170920\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000068DBC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000068DBC\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 07:24:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 12:58:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 08:20:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 08:20:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Went out to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000640SA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Memento\">Memento<\/a> last night. I&#8217;d been curious about this one ever since I started hearing about it, and even more curious once I saw the trailer. The main character has suffered a brain injury, and has a condition where he cannot form any new memories. The last thing he can actually remember is his wife&#8217;s murder &#8212; everything else that happens to him fades in a few minutes. He can&#8217;t remember anyone for more than just a couple minutes, if conversations last too long he won&#8217;t know how they got started&#8230;interesting enough on its own, but during the film, he&#8217;s actually trying to track down the man who raped and killed his wife. Notes all over the place, key clues tattooed onto his body&#8230;a man obsessed, but incapacitated by being completely limited to short term memory. In addition, the film is told in an extremely &#8216;dis-linear&#8217; (the director&#8217;s term) style&#8230;in other words, it doesn&#8217;t start at the beginning and end at the end. Similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000068DBC\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Pulp Fiction\">Pulp Fiction<\/a>, only more. Very, very cool &#8212; certainly the best film I&#8217;ve seen so far in 2001, and I&#8217;m so looking forward to it coming out for sale &#8212; I need to watch it quite a few more times just to make sure I&#8217;m seeing everything correctly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very, very cool &#8212; certainly the best film I&#8217;ve seen so far in 2001, and I&#8217;m so looking forward to it coming out for sale &#8212; I need to watch it quite a few more times just to make sure I&#8217;m seeing everything correctly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,1873],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-memento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}