Subj : Re: Usual Suspects
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 05:51:57

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

RR wrote:

> Hated, HATED "Memento". If you were to take the story that occurs in
> that film and watch it in a linear fashion it would be a
> straight-to-video cop film starring Van Damme or someone like him.

This is a common complaint, and I still don't think it applies.  When
you take away the cuts and play it forward in time the viewer gets
absolutely no sense of what the main character is going through.

It is that sense of disorientation (which is so simplistically done that
it's near-perfect) that is a major part of the plot.

It is used in a way that it becomes more than just an editing style, it
is *the* defining plot point.  It tells the audience more about what is
going on in the main character's head than any other event.

Like a voice-over, some POV events can't be simply removed if you wish
to be left with the same movie you started with.
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Tyler Trafford

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking
advantage of them.

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