Tuesday 12 January 2010

memento


psychological conventions
  1. normally a drama/mystery film
  2. the main danger is mainly targeted at the mind
  3. it is normally 2 or more characters using mind games between the two or one main character in solitary losing there mind
  4. characters will have fear or a fetish with death
  5. characters discover there own purpose during the film
  6. the narrative is confusion over what is real and what is fake
Memento uses typical conventions of a thriller using a dark setting through the first scene. It starts with a murder which is a typical psychological.
The start is different to pretty much all films as the murder is in reverse which is confusing to the audience. the whole film is set out to prove that he is insane as he keeps taking photos of things and getting tattoos on his body to remember what happened yesterday as he has short term memory loss. the films sticks to typical conventions as the main character has an clear weakness as he can't remember what has happened.

the film is about the main character looking for the killer of his wife this is a thriller convention as it is a single murder with the main character trying to find what happened.the start is confusing for the audience as the start is what happens at the end,meaning the audience will know what the main character is going to kill someone but the start is not showing the victims face so the victim is not clear until the end

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