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Memento gone wrong
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Nobody is a film noir with a repeating, backwards progressing narrative. Referring to Memento is inevitable and in this case very necessary because it illustrates why that storytelling device worked so well for Memento and miserably fails for Nobody.

The protagonist in Memento suffers from amnesia and doesn't know who he is, where he comes from or who to trust. The audience is kept out of the loop as well, creating a real sense of identification.
Furthermore, the plot device actually serves a grander purpose, it helps to get the theme(s) and message(s) across: are memories reliable? are people honest? and does it matter anyway?

Compare this to Nobody, where they use the backwards shifting plot just to "progress" the plot, and to be able to shoot only about a third of the runlength of the film, because they endlessly repeat entire sequences of the film.

Rating: 5