I wasn't able to blog last week, on account of the 80 foot tree that fell on my house and took out my power for almost a week, but now I can finally catch up!
Just some quick thoughts on Memento, I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie. It was very different from any movie I have seen. I really loved how the story worked backwards and kept adding on different memories. It was kind of like being in his shoes in a way. At the end of the movie I do have to say that there were definitely some open ends to the story that led you to believe one thing and than another. Up until Teddy said that the story of Sammy was actually Lenard's, i really thought i had the movie figured out. But they way he said it was so convincing that it instilled some doubt in me an that Lenard really might have killed his wife because of his memory. I'm still not 100% sure what the real story is, which i think is the point.
Tarnation was also a very different film. I'm not a person who usually watched documentaries because i just cant seem to get into them for some reason so it was a little harder for me to watch. I do have to agree that I was very shocked by some of the things i saw and that there were scenes that were very long and uncomfortable for me to watch. Especially that one scene towards the end where his mother was dancing with the pumpkin. I couldn't believe some of the things that had happened to him and his mother, it was just so sad that because of really bad advice this families lives were ruined. But I do think he was able to overcome these hardships and work around them to get where he wanted to be in life. I thought Jonathan's use of sound and the movie clips were very interesting. That one sequence where there was the four different picture, there was a lot of different movies clips. I wasn't sure what the purpose to them was, if there was any, but some of the movies clips i caught i thought were interesting choices for him to make.
I really enjoyed the section on hypertext because as you're reading you never know where the next link we'll take you. some of them were funny and others were really interesting too.