10 Genius Ways Movies Made You Rewatch Them
6. To Watch It In Chronological Order - Memento
Christopher Nolan's Memento is one of the most ingeniously premised thrillers of all time, revolving around Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man suffering from anterograde amnesia as he attempts to solve the mystery of his wife's death.
Nolan visualises Leonard's amnesia through a deviously non-linear narrative, with one sequence of scenes taking place chronologically, while the other plays out in reverse-order, and the two finally meet in the movie's climax.
Even for attentive viewers, it's a heady stew of a feature that damn-near requires at least one additional viewing to glean everything that Nolan's doing. But Memento also goes one step further than this, as the film's DVD release features a special version of the picture in which the story plays out in entirely chronological order.
While there's a strong argument to be made that watching the film chronologically is actually not great - due to the story clearly not being designed to be ingested this way - it is nevertheless a fascinating way to encourage people to revisit it in a highly unconventional new format.