Otnemem

The film Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, has a very unique way of playing with the audience and taunting their memory in a way. I find the way that this film is presented extraordinary. I believe that the reasoning for the order of the film, color scences backward, and the black and white forward, is to create the illusion that we are actually the main character, and share that same memory loss condition. I also think that the reason for the two different stories, Leonard's and Teddy's, is to show us that we cannot fully trust our memory at all times, just as Leonard cannot depend on his.

Kiss Me Deadly

I am not sure whether or not I liked Robert Aldrich's film, Kiss Me Deadly. While Kiss Me Deadly held my attention throughout most of the film, the end really threw me off. I am not a big sci-fi finatic, and I just didn't really understand the glowing box of death, or fire, or spirits, or whatever the heck it was that was in the box. I also didn't really understand the reason for having two different endings, because they seemed too similar to me. I just think that they could've improved the film a lot if they just changed that one aspect. Or if they had introduced the idea of sci-fi earlier in the film, then it may have made a little bit more sense, because it just seemed so out of the blue at the end.

Groundhog Day

I thouroughly enjoyed Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day. Although getting stuck in a time loop seems basically impossible at this time, I think that many of the ideas of Groundhog day are very realistic. We may not be reliving the same day over and over again, but we do lead very controlled and pre-planned lives. We go to school five out of the seven days of the week, nine out of the twelve months of the year, for 12 to 16 years of our lives. We go to the same classes at the same time every day, with the exception of the switches at semester. Once we graduate from high school and college, we find a job, and then, from there, we continue to attend that job 5 out of 7 days of the week, every month of the year, until we are either fired or retire. We might wonder if such a repetitive life is worth it. In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character, Phil, shows us that, yes, it is worth it. It's worth it to help others as best you can, and do what you can to enrich their lives.

Bringing Up Crap

As many of the other students from the class would agree with me, I did not enjoy Howard Hawks film, Bringing Up Baby. I am not sure whether it was the plot of the story, the script or Katharine Hepburn that made the film so unbearable. If it was indeed the script, then Hepburn did an amazing job conforming into the obnoxious character that she played! No matter the case, it is never a good idea to frustrate the audience that way, because it is extremely distracting from the film.

I would not reccomend this film.