The Third Man vs. Memento

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Good lord, The third Man is much better.

Memento all the way...

Two of my all-time favorites right here. Numbers 8 & 11 on my flickart, respectively. But really, it's so close you couldn't slide a kodak instant photo dusted with black market penicillin between them.

Film Revelation: Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pierce in Memento) was in a financial crisis and could no longer afford the penicillin that his wife desperately needed. Shelby heard of a man by the name of Harry Lime (played by Orson Welles in The Third Man) that sells inexpensive penicillin on the black market. Shelby sought out Lime and became a customer. Shelby didn't realize that Lime was selling him a very diluted form of penicillin that eventually lead to the death of Shelby's wife. Harry Lime is really the killer that Leonard Shelby is hunting, not John G. Mind = Blown.

I like, not quite love, both movies. I think The Third Man has a little more depth (that and it looks gorgeous).