I had seen a few clips of Memento in media lessons and so asked to borrow the film to watch and write about it on my blog. Memento was directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan and stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.
The film stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby as a man with anterograde amnesia which makes him unable to create new memories, use his notes and tattoos to try and find the man who raped and killed his wife.
The film begins with a photo of blood, tiles and what appears to be a head in the bottom left-hand corner of it, we then see the person holding the photo shake it giving the impression that they are trying to develop the photo as the person continues to shake the photo we see that it begins to lose quality like it is undeveloped prompting the audience to question what's happening it's after this that we see the film is being played backwards as Leonard puts the picture back into the camera and we begin to understand what's happening as the film continues to play backwards we see that Leonard has in fact shot Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) in the back of the head.
This film compared to the others was very confusing as it consisted of two different types of films one in black and white and the other in colour; as the black and white scenes are played in chronological order and the colour in reverse chronological area, the scenes are played alternately until they both meet at the end of the film.
The suspense in this film comes from the main character where they must resolve conflicts with their owns minds, this is usally to understand what happened to them.
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