Memento

MEMENTO - ONE OF THE SMARTEST THRILLERS MADE. 
    - This film has an extremely difficult narrative structure where events are told in ten minute segments and backwards. This echos confusion that the protagonist feels as he struggles to remember things.

Included in this film..

Conventions such as: blood, abandoned building and a dead body.

Camera techniques in this film use a wide range of shots; close up and ECU (Extreme Close Up) to highlight either a character or an object, long shot of the abandoned building to give the audience a feel of the surrounding the characters are presently in and then slowly begins moving closer towards the location. Filmed in reverse, black and white which symbolises flashbacks and then goes in to colour, back to the present day.

Editing: Slow dissolve into the film.

Sound: The mood is tense right from the beginning even before we the audience see a visual, we know something terrible has happened, the music is the clue.

Mis-En Scene: Red (blood) symbolises danger and destruction. The photo of the dead man immediately make the audience intrigued, do we trust the protagonist?