Plot Summary of Momento
A memory inside a memory, Memento is a complicated head spinning adventure. Leonard is determined to avenge his wife's murder. However, unable to remember anything that happens day-to-day due to a condition he sustained, short term memory loss, he has to write himself note after note that still don't mean anything after he falls asleep. The film goes back in time to reveal each little bit of the puzzle as he tries to find out the person who killed his wife and makes the audience feel just as confused as he is. The narrative closely follows a phone call Pearce has in which he talks about Sammy Jankis a former client of his who he believed had the same condition. The film takes an unexpected twist as the two characters have a lot more in common than is initially put across. Written by gab_b270@hotmail.com
Plot Summary for Hable con Ella
Marco, a journalist grieving for a love affair that ended ten years' ago, falls in love with Lydia, a bullfighter also on the rebound. Benigno, a nurse, dedicates his life to his only patient, a young dancer in a coma as a result of an accident four years' before; he talks to her, reads to her, holds photographs in front of her closed eyes. When Lydia is brought comatose to the hospital where Benigno works, he and Marco become friendly, and the nurse encourages the journalist to talk to her and hope for a miracle. Marco is Sancho to Benigno's Quixote, and as Benigno's hopes for his patient become fantasies, Marco tries to inject reality. Does a miracle await? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
4 comments:
After watching "Hable con Ella" for the millionth time, I still became completely lost in its story. The idea of a relationship between the awake and the unconscious, introduced in the very opening of the movie in Pina Bausch's "Cafe Müller", is so well played out through the drama. Benigno's obsession and confusion bends the understanding of what it means to live with the sleeping. We discussed in class briefly about glorification of the "awake reality", and Benigno presents a positive version the alternative for the first half of the film; however, in helping Marco deal with his lover in a coma, Benigno get's lost in his comatose patient Alicia's world. Eventually, we learn that one can and should interact with the sleeping, but not to the extent of relationships with the conscious
Memento left me with a lot of questions and a sense of discomfort. After sorting through the actual plot, I am most struck by the fact that Leonard's desire for memory and fulfillment led him on such a destructive path. The movie made me question how I can trust for certain my sense of memory - clearly, Leonard was completely lost without his.
the most interesting aspect of this work is how it redefines the concept of time. the audience (me) was no longer interested in reaching the end of the movie since it was exposed readily at the beginning. I experienced an amazing feeling being lost in trying to piece together and predict the beginning when it all blew up in my fact and surprised me with an unmistakable conclusion.
Abre los ojos blew my mind in its treatment of obsession. Benigno takes care of Alicia for so long that he feels she belongs to him, and attempts to mirror that physically and disastrously. The movie also approached the question of whether communication for the sake of communication is a healthy activity. Whether or not the person can actually hear you isn't the point, but it seems to me like the two men are just wasting their own consciousness.
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