Momento

Momento was at first quite a confusing movie but as the movie picks up, it became much clearer as to what the premise was. The way the movie was made is very interesting because it isn't typical as what we see in today's movies as well as typical film noir movies. The movie had begun from the end and progressed towards the beginning. With confusing plot twists and a storyline that gave more emphasis to how insane the movie was already, it made the movie generate several characteristics of a film noir. Such as the mysteriousness that comes with a film noir. When the movie begins, we see the main character kill what we have thought was the 'villain' at the time. Just from seeing that scene alone, we wonder why did he kill him, who was he, and so forth. Not only that but the movie also had a very distinctive contrast. Half the scenes were in black and white while the other half were in color. Each colored scene corresponded to the movie timeline by going backwards from the end event and the black and white scenes were progressing from the very beginning and eventually the two meet. However, with a confusing storyline, the movie itself had given explanation as to what had happened but still available for subjective views of opinions. The movie overall was good because of its creative and innovative progression as well as the film noir aspects that it had contained.