>Re: the Memento DVD - why didn't they include a "remix," so we could >watch the movie in chronological order? It seems like an obvious move - >several people I talked to after seeing it all specifically mentioned >(& you could create your own rough remix if DVD players allowed you to >rearrange tracks like CD players do--perhaps some do but mine doesn't.) A friend of a friend has loaded the film into a PC and recut it into chronological order. I have a VHS PAL copy of the result sitting on my shelf (still unwatched). I do not where he put the shots that might be 'fantasy shots' though. >It >seems to me that a chronological rearrangement of the film would work >against the themes (the unreliability of memory is explicitly stated but >it's also about the nature of images & communication, the construction of >personality/character, the purposes of violence) and nearly all the >dramatic tension, making it fairly pointless even as a curiosity. I think the main point of the recut version is simply that it is then easier to check the continuity of the film. >This is where I start to >think Memento may be a bit too tricky for what it's trying to do. By >chance I'd seen the Japanese film Perfect Blue a few days earlier and that >film's mirrored, unsolvable narrative seems much more radical to me. >Memento at times feels like a diversion along the lines of a 5000 piece >jigsaw puzzle, just get the right approach and it all fits. Right. Although very interesting, I think MEMENTO ultimately has been granted too much weight as a genuinely artistically valuable work. Dag Sødtholt ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]