Internet Review

otnemem.com (Memento)

This Flash-intensive site for the Sundance-bound Memento doesn't provide any direct information about the film. Instead, paranoia-racked images of newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about a grisly crime are used to evoke a mood of creepy melancholy without a word of detail about the who, what, when, where, and why. There's no telling what the police-blotter snippets and bloodied Polaroids really mean, but the site is fascinating all the same -- and manages to keep the movie's secrets safe within, which is more than you can say for most websites these days. A

Originally posted Jan 12, 2001 Published in issue #577 Jan 12, 2001 Order article reprints
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