Narrative structure: Memento

Memento:

• Black and white is used as a constant feature throughout the movie, it established some sort of flashbacks and we constantly know when we see Lennie talking in his bedroom on the phone.
• The use of sound in the fact that they refer to it is 'The incident' emphasises the narrative structure.
• Repetition can take the form in sound, edit and sequence. Within narrative structure repetition can correlate with Lennie's condition.
• The sequence is showed once and the it repeated again and the black and white sequence is played with Lennie speaking on the phone about his condition.
• Personally I think that Lennie could be seen as all of Propp's character.
• Edit: The photo changed from black and white to colour as the scene did, this shows how the sequence was in the moment and he wont remember however the photograph would stay with him forever.
• Non-diegetic music and voiceovers are used throughout to develop the narrative structure.

Equilibrium---->Lennie has short term memory loss, he cant make new memories
Disequilibrium---->Uses pictures and notes to remember things, the phone sequence is the disequilibrium
New equilibrium---->Already killed John G, Teddy remembers and tells Lennie the truth but he doesn't believe him