Momento introduction analysis.

Memento introduction analysis

At the beginning of Memento an unconventional title is used with a blue on black feel to it. The blue on the back can symbolise coldness and loneliness, combined with the black background it gives the impression of being lost and engulfed by darkness showing that a person could have been lost and have changed into something that they are not. As the credits at the beginning are rolling an orchestral sound plays in the background giving the feeling of sorrow and ending. The first camera shot shown is a close up of a Polaroid image in a mans hand. On this image is a dead person who installs confusion and fear into the audience. As the film continues the hand holding the Polaroid shakes and the image slowly fades. The fading of the image could connotate how the main roles memories slowly fade over time due to his condition. This is because the film at the current moment of time if playing in reverse order. Quick editing between shots means that the scene that is currently on is sped up and shows in reverse order one man shooting another. The camera quickly changes into a black and white view in another place with the main role, in the background a sound of a clock ticking or a heart beat resembles the way that the main role is partially going mental and that after this attack the only part of him that made him who he was is dead. The main role is seen to be white and wearing a suit with no tie, from this image we can analyse that he is of middle class but when a view of his car is seen the viewing of him changes to a well-off middle class person.