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Christopher Nolan??€™s Memento, one of the better films of the past year, never had a chance at a Best Picture nomination. Partially because it was a film that simply kept it too real for Oscar consideration, but mostly, because it refused to obey several cardinal rules...
Perhaps the whole Mike Tyson saga is attributable to a short-term memory deficit like Guy Pearce’s in Christopher Nolan??€™s Academy-snubbed thriller. Perhaps Iron Mike just has no idea what he’s doing at a given point and lives life in brief, incomprehensible bursts. Even a movie plot might not be able to make sense out of Tyson. But then again, maybe it could...
Christopher Nolan??€™s Memento didn’t get nominated for the Best Picture Oscar yesterday. That was a shafting of biblical proportions. Nolan??€™s masterpiece told the tale of a man with no short-term memory (Guy Pearce) whose is plunged into all sorts of trouble because his memory blanks out every so often. The story is told chronologically backwards—beginning with the closing scene ending with the first—in a way that lets viewers feel Pearce’s disorientation. Few people walk the earth feeling that confused, but you?...