Narrative structure of memento
· Someone trying to find out who killed someone close to them.· Lots of possiblites of who it might actually be. · Hard to follow as story is shown in different parts, for example the ending might be at the begging of the film, and we are shown how everything links to what happens. · Possibly a simple story line but chosen to be viewed in a difficult narrative structure. · As the audience would be watching this at the cinema, they have 100% focus on the film so that they can work out whats going on. · There is not a lot of action in this film as that tends to distract the viewer and they lose focus on the plot. · The film does have a classic narrative structure but is not shown in the usual way of beginning, middle then end, instead it reverses it and it become the end, middle and finally the beggining. · This adds to the pleasure of the audience as they have to work out what is going on and they feel success when they work out what is going on. · The way the film is shown is exactly how the main character will remember it as he suffers from no short term memory, this makes the audience sympathise with the mai
· Also the significant object which is the Polaroid's that he takes everywhere with him. A woman named Natalie (Carrie-Ann Moss) gives Leonard details of the driver she has had traced from the car registration Leonard has tattooed on his body. The owner turns out to be Teddy, whose real name, Natalie reveals, is John Gammell. Leonard writes on his Polaroid of Teddy, "He is the one. Kill him." On the outskirts of town, he accompanies a man called Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) into a deserted warehouse. After looking at a photo of Teddy on which is written, "Don't believe his lies. He is the one. Kill him," Leonard shoots Teddy dead. Leonard meets a cop, John Gammell, and takes a Polaroid of him. Gammell tells him to identify him as Teddy as he's working undercover. He sends Leonard to kill Jimmy Grantz in a deserted warehouse on the city's outskirts. Grantz thinks he's meeting Teddy for a drugs deal and has $200,000 in his car. Leonard kills Jimmy, believing him to be his wife's killer, takes a Polaroid of the body and changes into Jimmy's clothes. Teddy tells Leonard he's a cop who helped investigate the rape of Leonard's wife. Since the police dropped the investigation, Teddy has been finding criminals with the initials "JG" for Leonard to kill. He tells Leonard
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Genre Drama/murder, Jimmy Grantz, JG Leonard, Guy Pearce, Teddy Leonard, Development Leonard, Moss Leonard, Joe Pantoliano, Leonard Dodd, Polaroid Gammell, tells leonard, jimmy grantz, film shown, takes polaroid, teddy tells leonard, called teddy, don't believe, believe lies, city's outskirts, rid dodd, narrative structure, don't believe lies,
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