Memento (2000)

[ER]

Finally got back to my little VHS watch-a-thon and pulled out this movie, toward which I once lacked warmth but which impressed me a lot more this time around. (To be honest when I first saw it I associated Guy Pearce so strongly with LA Confidential, one of my favorite movies, that it annoyed me to see him playing an entirely different kind of character in there. Not saying that's right, just that was how something in me reacted.)  It'd been so long since I saw Memento that it was like seeing it for the first time, and to go through the looking glass of a plot so twisted and impressively creative was a pleasure. A near-great movie, a warped classic, as frustrating and captivating as it is maddening and sad. I'd give it an A-.