>>wtf? yet you said that all this film needed was it's
>central
>>concept and everything else falls automatically into place.
>>so if the central concept is so easy to come up with, how
>come
>>no one's done it before?
>
>...but after that there's not much to get excited about. And
>correct me if I'm wrong, it was a concept that he and his
>brother came up with together, right? His brother wrote a
>short story using the concept and he made the movie, right?
>So it's not like the concept belongs entirely to him, either.
>
>And yeah -- I'm sticking to it, the movie really falls off
>once you get over the novelty of the concept. And yes, making
>a movie stick entirely with one character and entirely with
>one POV shouldn't be that difficult for any self-respecting
>film student. Just watch Rear Window a ton and then go make
>your movie. I'm goddamn serious about that.
>

two things here

1. I doesn't really matter if his brother wrote the story to start with... i'm not one of these idiots that thinks the director is the be all and end all, every film starts with a script or at least a concept.

2. no the perspective device IS the concept of showing the scenes in reverse order. That's what lets the audience identify with the main character's amnesia. I don't know wtf you thought i meant

and the gimmick LASTS the entire film, i don't see how you get over it

Rear Window... great film... uninteresting story (i mean, nothing much by itself) ... interesting concept and filming technique
Memento... same thing