Thursday, 3 December 2009

Memento

Memento is a good opening sequence to a thriller for many reasons as it fits in with a lot of the conventions of thriller movies.
-The film uses a non-linear order to make the audience ask questions about what exactly is going on and why each of the scenes shown has actually happened. It creates a sense of confusion as to what is going to happen next by the use of so many flashbacks etc.
- The eerie music creates a sense of tension at the beginning and allows the audience to feel on edge as to what might happen; the eerie music and tension makes the audience feel vulnerable to the story line and what it might bring as the film progresses
- The use of close ups o all the different objects used and broken as a result of the crime taken place makes the audience ask even more questions as you are only shown the crime that has taken place after seeing all of these objects. This allows the audience to make up their own mind about what has happened and why these objects are like this. Also, by showing these it creates some suspense and builds up the audience to something that might happen later on in the film.
- Also, the use of close ups throughout means that they only want you to see certain parts- it shows what you can't see and what you want to know.
- The scene is also like a jigsaw where you have to piece all different parts together to make sense.

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