What’s Aged the Worst?
Never matching the first viewing; Guy Pearce's career stock
In the discussion (7)
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- The movie will never match the experience of seeing it the first time, like a first in-person playoff game; the build-up, the theater, and the final-ten-minutes realization that there is no second killer cannot be replicated.
- Films like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense offer a new way to watch once the ending is known.
- Whether Teddy's end-of-film account is the real story is questioned; one reading says yes, while a fun theory puts Leonard in the mental institution with Sammy as an invention, hinted by a quick shot of him in the chair.
- Most characters (Bert, Natalie, Teddy) tell Leonard the truth at various points because there are no consequences to lying to him.
- Anyone holding Guy Pearce rookie cards after Memento took a hit; his Mayor of Easttown character does not add up and needs to be heavier, scarred or balding.
- The episode posts on Monday, when more of that show will have aired, so the character may still surprise.
- The other view is that the film remains timeless with nothing aged badly, agreeing only that the first-viewing feeling is hard to replicate; picking the movie up in the middle feels like vertigo, as noted before recording.