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The NolanOscopy: Memento

This week on Frame Work, we’re talking about Christopher Nolan’s breakout hit Memento. It’s one of the most acclaimed films of his career and a touchstone noir of the early 00s, so why is it neither or us ever really fell in love with it? We’re parsing the Sammy Jankis stuff, expounding on the five year period when Joey Pants claimed complete dominion over Hollywood, weighing the visceral effectiveness of Carrie Ann Moss’s big scene against it’s wild implausibility, casting about for modern significance and finding some interesting parity with Inception, Nolan’s revisiting of these themes several years later.

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Memento

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