"Memento" (2000) Directed by Christopher Nolan

“The world doesn’t just disappear when you close your eyes”.

Based on the short story “Memento Mori” by his brother Jonathan, this is a cinematic triumph in every way for Christopher Nolan. Director of Photography Wally Pfister deserves early praise for the immersive lighting of the black and white scenes and a distinctly different and more gritty, real life feel to the standard colour scenes. This was to be Pfister’s first of numerous collaborations as DP on a Christopher Nolan film. Editor Dody Dorn also deserves early praise, as does David Julyan who returns to provide another subtle and haunting “electronic hum” of a soundtrack. He also provided a similar score to Nolan’s earlier film Following and also re-teams with the Director on his next two films.

As a music fan, the score is a particular favourite of mine reminiscent as it is of the 1980’s style of synthesised score, simple yet mournful and brooding. As a Radiohead fan it pleases me that Director Nolan originally wanted their eponymous track “Paranoid Android” to play over the closing credits but due to rights issues David Bowie’s “Something in the Air” is used. Even as a Radiohead fan, the use of Paranoid Android wouldn’t have fitted the film at all.

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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my very first opus film blog article on the entire career of Christopher Nolan which I originally penned and published over a decade ago, have added to with his releases of "Dunkirk" and "Tenet" and which was transferred to my Medium blog site on 27th December 2022 and can now be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site and original article linked immediately below. I have also linked my original opus blog article on the entire career of the London born filmmaker here too:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/memento-2000-1c74a4a91dd5

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/christopher-nolan-and-his-entire-cinematic-catalogue-ed5c07e44a67

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