nobody cares about the man in the box

[vilebody]

Finally got to see The Prestige this evening, after roast dinner no.2 of the weekend (lamb, from mum, with dad, a & j). SUCH a good one. My love affair with the career of Chris Nolan continues. It was especially exciting as its so long since I'd seen the trailer that I'd forgotten half the people who were in it (somehow I kept fixating on Xtian

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[niallm]

Memento is still absolutely the most cunningly constructed film ever...

[vilebody]

I know! I was raving to mum in the car on the way home from the cinema about what a stunningly amazing film it is. I still remember the first time I saw it, quite a while after it 1st came out, at the prince charles cinema in soho with my friend dafydd. It was everso cheap and we'd started going their quite a lot, just as something to do other than booze really, but after Memento we had to find a quite bar to sit in, and made a bottle of wine last 6 times as long as it normally did with us, while we went back over and over it, piecing it all together. Like books, poems, most things; I like films that work on you AFTER they've finished...