Most puzzling film ever!

I think Eyes Wide Shut can qualify too!

TheGazzardian wrote: In Memento, the black and white scenes happen before all the colour scenes ... if you think of the end of the movie as a pivot, all the black and white scenes move forward in time towards it, while all the colour scenes move backwards in time towards it. A buddy of mine edited the film so that it played in chronological order and said it was actually pretty boring that way. A pretty interesting comment on how the way a story is told is at least as boring as the story. SPOILERS!!! The big question in Memento to me has always been: Did Leonard kill his wife, or was Sammy Jenkins real? There were three directors commentary, one where the director said Teddy was lying (Sammy Jenkins was real), one where the director said he was telling the truth (Leonard did kill his wife), and one where he didn't bring it up at all. How's that for a mystery?

The special edition dvd has that edited version as a special feature, and yes, it is very boring that way. My interpretation is that Teddy was telling the truth. What motive would he have to lie? But Sammy Jenkins was real, he was just a con man who pretended to have the memory thing for insurance purposes.


Edited by thellama73 - May 04 2011 at 07:34

from the list Mulholland 

Other-Naked Lunch. I still don't have the foggiest idea what this movie is about! 

If it helps those who have problems with 'Memento', try this version... Bollywood has a long history of remaking western movies & this film was no exception:

'Ghagini' (just like Memento, but in Hindi for the Indian market, so just as understandable, then )



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Incidentally, I voted for Eraserhead - not for the film itself, but just puzzled why they bothered making it at all; sorry chaps, complete garbage!

+++hides from Eraserhead fans+++

Edited by Jim Garten - May 19 2011 at 02:53

Henry Plainview wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Incidentally, I voted for Eraserhead - not for the film itself, but just puzzled why they bothered making it at all; sorry chaps, complete garbage! +++hides from Eraserhead fans+++ Don't worry, stonie and I got your back on Eraserhead's being possibly the worst movie of all time.

Aren't you the one who keeps talking about how there's no inherent good-ness or bad-ness in works of art?

Eraserhead was one of Stanley Kubrick's favourite films. I don't find it particularly puzzling. It's a lot more direct than most of the later Lynch movies.

I don't like films that try to be clever and puzzling, they are more pretentious than puzzling (Primer for example)

Edited by wilmon91 - May 19 2011 at 19:13

The Pessimist wrote: I found Moon quite puzzling... not the plotline or anything, but more the fact of the meaning behind it... Great film by the way, how it can be interpretted in so ways with only one character.

The twist for Moon was really goofy, it's probably not worth thinking about. The beginning of it was great, though. 

harmonium.ro wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Incidentally, I voted for Eraserhead - not for the film itself, but just puzzled why they bothered making it at all; sorry chaps, complete garbage! +++hides from Eraserhead fans+++ Don't worry, stonie and I got your back on Eraserhead's being possibly the worst movie of all time. Aren't you the one who keeps talking about how there's no inherent good-ness or bad-ness in works of art?

I'm less subjective about movies. ;-)

The Truth wrote: The amount of pretentious rubbish spouted by its fans about Eraserhead is amazing.

Gotta say, I'm with you there