Remember Sammy Jankis

Leonard always said, "Remember Sammy Jankis" and in turn he needed to for Leonard could not make new memories. Before he was afflicted by this condition he knew a man named Sammy Jankis who was very similar to his current state and through that connection he remembered his condition. Christopher Nolan's arranged the scenes in Momento to follow this condition. Colored scenes went in reverse order, starting at the end, while the black and white scenes went in normal order from near the beginning. The end of the film actually was where these two perspectives merged into one and the whole story was finally unfolded. This line of storytelling intrigues the viewer and makes him wonder, "How did Leonard come into this perdicament" instead of the normal "What happens next." This is a nice change from other movies. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it because it is very nearly one of a kind.

Kiss Me Burning Box of Fire!!!

If you haven't seen Kiss Me Deadly you are probably wondering why I wrote burning box of fire, on the other hand if you have seen it you know exactly what I am referring to. For those unenlightened by this film I will elaborate on the box. Near the end of the film the character named Gabrielle opens a box that is not supposed to be opened and when she does she starts screaming. At the same time she is lit on fire and continues to open this box that she seems so deadly afraid of. My question is why does she continue to open the box, what person in their right mind would continue to do something that is going to kill them? I guess you could liken it to people that smoke cigarettes. Cigarettes are a clear cause of lung cancer, that is known to be deadly. So why do people smoke cigarettes, no one for sure knows the exact reason people do. As for Gabrielle, I guess I can say the same thing, that no one for sure knows why she opened the box even more instead of shutting it again. Another thing about the movie that I found peculiar was that when the beach house was blowing up at the end of the movie, why were there explosions happening on the sand below the house when the cause for the explosion was clearly the box that was in the upper floor of the house. I didn't exactly enjoy the movie as a whole but it had its humorous parts.

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity was a very interesting film that involved romance, cigarettes, and trains. It appeared to be the exact definition of a film noir. They used venetian blinds and low key lighting. Also Walter Neff, the main character, was doomed from the very beginning. We knew what he did at the start of the movie and the rest of the movie told the story of how he came to such a predicament. This was the first film noir that I have watched and I enjoyed it. The suspense of knowing the ending throughout the film intrigued me and made me want to find out what happened next even more. Later in the movie I thought it was a bit odd that Neff would kill Phyllis and bring himself back into his doomed state when he had just been freed of it. This showed that Neff was completely the bad guy that he was made out to be. Watching this film noir made me like the genre and hopefully the other movies we watch will be just as good.

Groundhog Day

I found Groundhog Day to be very entertaining and amusing. Bill Murray did a wonderful job with the jokes and the moods and it was especially interesting that there was a suicide montage. Normally people cannot die more than one time but the reliving of a single day made this possible. The reliving of the same day brings very interesting thoughts to ponder. Phil (Bill Murray) does many things that people would not try normally because he knows that he will live the day again. If I were him I would probably do the same type of thing because there are many things that I would like to do but are not practical to do if I were not to live again. Yes that last sentence was very confusing but it is an example of the repetitive nature of the film with added vagueness. More or less it was a good movie that made viewers think about how they would spend a day if they could do anything in it without any consequences.

Bringing Up Baby

Bring Up Baby was a very interesting movie and was funny at times. The falling of David and Susan always happened in pairs so near the end of the movie you could expect one to fall if the other had already. The predictability sort of took out of the movie at part such as when David slid down a rock cliff, you knew Susan was close behind. A part where this pairing is done well is when David and Susan attempt to wade through the creek/river. They both fall at the same time unlike in other times when it will be one after the other. This makes it a surprise and not a prediction. Another thing in the movie that stuck out was the barking of the dog. The dog was not in any way beneficial to the production of the movie. Its constant and monotonous barking made people want to strangle it or beat it to a bloody pulp. This hating of the dog creates hostility in the viewer so that he/she ends up not enjoying other parts in the film and makes them only be able to think about when the dog will be gone. Making the viewer angry is not something that a director should want his movie to do. It simply makes people hate the movie and thus hate the director for making it. It more than likely makes less people go to see the movie if bad things spread around communities about it. Overall I found the movie to be just O.K., it had its funny parts, but it also had its extremely annoying parts.