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Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss
director Christopher Nolan | Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
2001 | Murder Mystery - Psychological Thriller | R | 113 minutes
Region 1 | DVD-9
& DVD-5
anamorphic
widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio
DTS 5.1 |
Dolby Digital 5.1
Summary: Memento is a movie about a
man who loses his short-term memory and his ability to create new
memory. This condition was supposedly caused by the head trauma
during the tragic and
violent murder of his wife. He devotes his life to searching for his
wife's killers and will not stop until he avenges his wife's murder.
Without short-term memory, he uses a number of mementos as a
reminder to himself: Polaroid photos, notes, and even body tattoos.
To put the audience in this man's perspective,
writer-director Christopher Nolan makes the movie unfold in a style that
is entirely unique. I'm not going to tell you what that is.
But it's brilliant. About half an hour into the movie, most viewers
should begin to see the plot's developmental style.
This Limited Edition also features packaging that
is refreshingly original and exceptional well done. It's probably
the best that we'll see this year. It imitates a psychiatric report
that a psychiatrist would have on a patient. The bonus materials in
this Limited Edition takes some work to access. You have to answer a
series of questions posed as a psychological profile puzzle. If you
answer wrong, you're back to square one. If you answer right, then
you get to see the bonus features. Expect to find clues in the
unique DVD packaging. In all seriousness, I think there should be a
shortcut to readily access every bonus feature. After a while,
navigating by means of answering those psychological questions quickly get
old and frustrating. According to the press release that I received,
there is reportedly a DVD Easter Egg that
allows the lucky finder a linear viewing experience.
Special Features: audio commentary by director
Christopher Nolan; "Anatomy of a Scene" Sundance Channel
documentary; original short story by Jonathan Nolan, director's script
featurette using the DVD multi-angle feature; and hidden a DVD Easter Egg
feature
DVD released on 5/21/2002 | Reviewed 5/12/2002
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video and audio quality are very good when their grades are "A-"
or better. Only the highest number of channels of surround sound
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
Be sure to check out our Top 10 DVDs of the year
2001 and our list of this year's Oscar winners on DVD.
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