If I can set my expectation at the appropriate level, or to be safe just a little lower, I always enjoy a film more. Of course the best experience you can have with any film is to come to it with no preconceptions at all. Such was the case the first time I saw Memento.
Never having read a review everything about this film, even the premise and the way in which the story was told, was new. I have since seen several reviews of this film that have only confirmed a long held belief that there should be a special kind of hell reserved for some film reviewers.
![Nadia Comaneci Time Magazine](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Z0LCz-c_WxRzjBzWy_0bS-AbdDoBenACRXeEP6vVz2HPPUJ8Uf43Ss9P8YSp4IaMHw2ICrjSQQchw7qMXMiLBLLLEpyHz9vLDejGRutZwnIrduQJlcx29qb9TA2_EMDfgaEYd7YiJsE/s320/nadia_time.jpg)
You would think that setting expectations for life, that mundane thing that exists outside the world of film, would be easy in comparison. Somehow however I always end up disappointed.I can't pinpoint an exact moment where it all went wrong but I do believe the fault lies with Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. When you're nine years old the simplest of things, such as a smile, can have the most unexpected impact. I didn't have the slightest interest in gymnastics but I was so captivated I made a point of watching Nadia just to catch a glimpse of that smile. Wow!
And from that point onwards it was all downhill.
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