Manipulation in Memento
The reverse narrative of Christopher Nolan’s Memento manipulates the audience to make incorrect inferences about the characters. The movie starts at the end and goes on to the beginning, at first glance it’s just a gimmick, how many movies have been made like this. The reverse narrative is more than that however; there is a dead body and a man with a Polaroid camera when the movie begins. Why did this man kill the other one? Why does he take a picture? The facts aren’t present and this allows one to sympathize with Leonard Shelby. At the beginning of each scene, one is left wondering how these events came to be, like injuries or tattoos for example. The reverse narrative aspect of Memento makes it possible to see the world as Leonard does, it lets the audience know what it feels like to have anterograde amnesia, the lack of a short term memory. The audience is right there with Leonard, not knowing whether a character is a friend or a foe. Not knowing the true nature or motivation of these characters. The first character that actually appears in Memento is Leonard Shelby or, as he hates to be called, Lenny. Incidentally, Leonard is also the main character in the movie. About three or four second into the movie, the
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