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The film’s embossed with a distinct “Memento” (2000) vibe, with all the rewinds and revelations.
“Minor Premise” is a microbudget indie puzzler in the vein of “Primer,” “Pi” and “Memento.”
Director and co-writer Eric Schultz owes a debt to Jonathan Nolan, the writer of Memento Mori, which fueled brother Christopher’s big breakthrough Memento .
In Minor Premise , director Eric Schultz makes a puzzle-like psychological thriller in the tradition of Memento and Primer .
It is like the dissociative identity disorder plotting of television’s Herman’s Head (1991-1994), James Mangold’s Identity (2003), Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s Mad Detective (2007) and Pete Docter’s Inside Out (2015), except that the multiple aspects of Ethan appear on screen sequentially rather than simultaneously (except in the default, where all are present) – and as Ethan himself points out when Alli suggests that this is DID, “these aren’t personalities – it’s all still me”.
This isn’t James Mangold’s “Identity” the rain-soaked, “the killer is inside the house” with a diverse ensemble that eventually yields to be a fantasy playing out in one portly psycho’s mind.
It is like the dissociative identity disorder plotting of television’s Herman’s Head (1991-1994), James Mangold’s Identity (2003), Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s Mad Detective (2007) and Pete Docter’s Inside Out (2015), except that the multiple aspects of Ethan appear on screen sequentially rather than simultaneously (except in the default, where all are present) – and as Ethan himself points out when Alli suggests that this is DID, “these aren’t personalities – it’s all still me”.
It’s like if M. Night Shyamalan actually understood the potential of his movie Split .