I liked this, but I had to watch it a couple of times, because after the first view all I could say was ...WTF?
Memento (2000)
I happen to enjoy dis-jointed (and disorienting for many) narrative. I'm the kind of guy who reads the first five pages of a book, then the last five pages, then skips to the middle and reads most of it, then go back to the beginning and continue to where I picked up in the middle. Frequently I'll re-read the middle, skipping over to the last twenty pages occasionally before finishing it entirely.
Strictly linear narrative is much more easily comprehended but in many ways I find the characters are better revealed in the way that I've described reading a book above. Some of my best writing is non-linear-based narrative, with flashbacks and flashes-ahead. I'd do much more of it if it weren't so damn confounding for my readers
My ex had a terrible time with
Momento. Eventually I just gave up on attempting to explain it to him.
My all-time bizarre movie is, without any doubt,
Thundercrack! which really must be seen to be appreciated (it, too, has some really disjointed narrative techniques). The official
website claims that DVDs will be pressed from an original negative and that it will be much crisper than the old VHS copies that were available in the 80s. But the DVDs still aren't being sold yet, two years after the website popped up.
Copies are notoriously rare and difficult to locate. It was posted privately on YouTube (through a loose network of friends), but the owners of the copyright threatened a lawsuit and it was, alas, removed.
Thundercrack! makes any early John Waters movie look like a Disney production in comparison.