15min Memory Blocks.

Some new ideas which may seem "Wow" when you hear them the first time, turns out to be the greatest disasters when they finally get implemented. Yesterday I saw the movie Memento. No, it is not the remake of the hit tamil movie Gajini. It is actually the other way.

You can't blame the tamil director for lifting the idea from this English movie. The story line in itself was too good to be ignored. But in both cases the final product was nothing less than a disaster.

In case of the english version, the director tried to experiment a lil too much and it spoiled the whole soup. The hero in the movie suffers form a weird memory loss problem. He can retain in his memory things which happened in the last 15 mins.Yes it is a bit confusing. I am not sure whether he loses the details of 1st minute in the 16th minute, 2nd in the 17th and so on or whether he loses them as contiguous blocks of 15 mins. But i think the latter is true. Now his wife was raped and murdered by some guy and our hero is trying to trace him by overcoming his condition. Now because he loses his memory every 15 mins, the movie runs backwards in overlapping blocks of 15 mins, simulating his memory. This may sound great, but when you watch the movie you get so confused that you wish you would have rather spent the time understanding the unified field theory.

There are certain rules that ought to be followed in every movie. Some of them which were violated in this case are:
->The movie needs to have a proper flow.
->The ending should justify the story.

About the tamil version the lesser said the better. The movie did move forward unlike the english version, but they added so many villains, so many unnecessary characters and so many foreign locations that it confused you even more.
Atleast the english version was a bold experiment. But I don't understand what were they trying to achieve in its tamil replica. How this became a blockbuster defies common sense.