Memento is another amazing unreliable narrator movie. In the same vein as Shutter Island and as many twists as The Departed. I really like it. There are so many details I probably missed that would be worth multiple rewatches. I HIGHLY recommend this movie, which is why I’m giving it a 5/5.

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I had a busy April finishing my master’s thesis, so I am 4 movies behind. I’ve watched 2 movies this week and will be watching 2 movies next week to catch up. The first movie I’m starting with is The Sixth Sense. It stars Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis and was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Going into this movie, I only really knew the like “I see dead people”, and boy, this movie was great! Both Osment and Willis did phenomenal jobs in their roles. The movie was suspenseful and thrilling but still balanced. I really enjoyed it, and I give it a 5/5. The next movie is Memento!

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Jojo Rabbit was a great experience. You experience the end of WW2 from the perspective of a 10-year-old German boy who is a Nazi fanatic, but soon grows to become disillusioned by it. Somehow, the movie was able to wrap satire and comedy around such dark tones. I thought all the actors and actresses did very well, and Stephen Merchant was exceptionally unsettling. I can understand the criticisms that the movie was making light of atrocities and humanizing nazis. In my opinion, it only seemed to be making light because of how absurd the propaganda was. The movie made some wildly anti-Semitic comments, and I couldn’t help but laugh. Not because the statement was funny, but the fact that people could have believed that. I think there is a difference between humanizing and empathizing, and the movie did a good job showing the propaganda that children would have experienced.

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