Backwards Movie Review: Memento

12. "We all lie to ourselves to be happy."
11. That's why Memento is so confusing, absorbing, mesmerizing and, yes, haunting.
10. So we (the audience) really have to work hard to figure things out.
9. To make this an even more challenging and moving experience, the film is told backwards, as if the editor simply reversed the scenes.
8. This is important, because he's trying to solve his wife's murder.
7. To aid him in remembering things, he's constantly writing things down on scraps of paper, taking pictures and tattooing himself.
6. For starters, the main character (the terrific Guy Pearce) has a bizarre case of short term memory.
5. A better guess might be that I'm still visited by Memento, Christopher Nolan's incredible 2000 psychological thriller. Everything about the film makes me uncomfortable.
4. I'm not sure.
3. Perhaps it's because I ate something bad before I moved west.
2. Maybe it's because I wasn't born right to begin with.
1. Don't ask me why I'm haunted.