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Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, and Alex Borstein

Directed by: Scott Frank

Once in a while there comes a great script but handled by not so great director boasting of an amazing cast. The film sits in this genre beautifully. The movie has a really good cast but only one person in this matters. Its Joseph Gordon-Levitt who takes the show on the road with a shocking first sequence. The film takes from there and discovers the inner workings of his mind.

There are couple of people who play with his disability and plan to rob a bank. A bank where he works as a night janitor. Joseph plays Chris who after an accident has got short term memory loss. But this makes him forget things in the immediate future. This becomes very frustrating by the end of the movie. There are few people he meets during this process. One of them is a blind man he stays with played by the fresh Jeff Bridges. There alot of characters who are out to get what he has. But Chris is fighting his condition taking it a day at a time.

His social life is destroyed because of this disability. People take advantage of him because for his need for appreciation. Something he begins to get from a set of thieves. The film meanders into its own state of depression giving the plot little hope for revival. The movie is an extremely depressing consequence of such a disability. There are several revelations that makes this movie very endearing towards the end.

Joseph Gordon inhabits this role like a hermit. He takes the loneliness of this man to new heights. Thus giving us a body of work that we take with us by the end of the film. There is a time and place for people to show maturity. But for Joseph he works with such mechanical ease and still give enough sparks to the character that makes this role worth remembering. This also gives him yet another movie to put in his slowly establishing filmography.

The film might have become another Memento replica. But it is the conviction of Joseph that gives this movie something new. The director tries to work with the script. But there could have been a lot more added dimensions that still didnt figure in the story. Joseph as an actor new the strength of the script but misjudged the person who helmed the project. The performance warrants several shades of human condition that Joseph portrays and leaves us spellbound. This actor is a force for this industry for it to go in the future and allow hollywood to peek into the lives of such people.