Momento...wait Memento.

In Memento, a movie starring Guy Pearce (Lenny), a man (Lenny) is on a quest to find the murderer of his wife and avenge her death. During her death the murderer whacked lenny across the head and made him have a very rare form of amnesia where he cannot create new memories. The interesting this about this neo-noir is that it is told backwards. We start the movie with the killing of the killer but every scene is what previously happened RIGHT before the scene we just saw. it was very confusing to watch over a 4 day span (especially with thanksgiving break) but i still LOVED the film and it has been my favorite so far in art of film.
What i wanted to talk about in this blog was how this movie makes us think. It happens a few different way, msot obviously the way the story is told. If ou dont keep tabs or are actively involved with the story then there is 0 chance you understand the plot. So you have to think to even follow with the movie (Katie Rosecrans). Deeper then that this movie makes us think about humanity, what we can do for happiness. At the end of the movie (or the beginning) we see Lenny kill someone who he believes raped and murdered his wife. Immediately after he and his friend chat about how all of Lenny's life is a lie becuase without the purpose of revenge and anger he has nothing to live for so Lenny conditions himself to belelvie that was the killer, immediately forgets it and creates a new killer to find. Now i personally belvieve that this is an exaggerated view on human nature. Like teddy says "so what, you lied to yourself to be happy. Everybody does it". I 100 percent agree with that statement. Whether it be if were happy with our place in society, like our jobs, or even our relationships. as humans our life goal is to be happy "who cares if you dont know some of the detals".

Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly was an amazing example of Film Noir for our generation. In Kiss Me Deadly, the main character, Mike Hammer, is a Private Invesigator who gets pulled aside by a hithchiker which leads to a crazy chain of events. Eventually leading to what you can infer, his death. The reason this movie is such a good Film Noir is becuase it has all the elements that a great Film Noir should have. It is dark in its plot...as well as its lighting, it is black and white, and the movie itself unravels like a great film noir should.
Some great unique things about this film that other Noirs of its time didnt contain, were the multi-plot aspect of the movie. Most older film noir, and older movies in general are focused on one main point and never really deviate from it. This movie on the other hand, has the girl, the death, the box, what the box is for, who wants the box, the hithchikers "roomate". this movie is years ahead of its time in the plot and way it was developed. Also the imaganation of this movie, during the cold war, with the sci-fi part with the hot, (radioactive) box.

In all i really enjoyed this movie and hope i got the most out of it i could. It was a great example of film noir adding on from Double Indeminty.


(im on safari so thats why my post has no bold or anything cool like that)

Double Jeopardy...I mean Indemnity

Double Indemnity, a film directed by Billy Wilder is a great example of Film Noir. This movie is considered one of the 1st and best Film Noirs of all time. This film is a great example of Film Noir because it has all the key elements Film Noir are supposed to have. It is black and white, it was a very dark plot and time, and was very edgy for its time. in all i liked the film because the plot kept me entertained and the editing and music were unique. on the other hand the acting was...sub par...and some of the camera angles were...awkward. i thought the movie in whole was a great example of how Film Noir should look and sound and Wilder did an amazing job with the materials he had in 1944.

Groundhog's day...

This blog assignment doesnt really have a real rubric so im going to just give my thoughts on the movie "Groundhog day" which we watched in Art of Film. This movie is starring Bill Murphy as a cocky, mean, overall dick reporter who was sent to do the reoprt on groundhogs day in the small town of Puxatawney Pennsylvania. His day never really ends because every morning he wakes up to the same song, at the same time, on the same day. Although the plot is completely unbeleivable, the movie as a whole was very good. I really enjoyed almost the whole film. some positive things about it were the fact that it was very funny but not over the top, always kept me entertained and intrigued, and gave pretty good life lessons overall that relate to most peoples lives. for every positive, there is a negative. some things i did NOT like about this movie was the random characters who were introduced but were short lived and annoying (ned reierson, and the 1st chick who he tried to...have relations with). also in the middle of the movie before he started only doing good deeds it was very long and repetitive and lost my attention for about a 15 min span.
overall i rate Bill Murray and the movie as a whle 3 stars out of 4. it was very very good, i liked it alot and would reccoment it to everyone but not an alltime classic

( i know the pic above is from caddy shack...but c'mon that movie is tight...)