Memento Opening

Here is the opening from Memento, in my opinion a fantastic triller. What is not realy revealed during this openig scene is the serious messing of chronology and mix of black and white footage with colour sections which tell two different narratives, however these evebtually over lap, creating an amazing thriler twist.

what I particularly like about the opening scene, is the use of time reversal first presented through the tightly frame polaroid photo; and then much more cleraly througout the rest of the scene. Secondly I like the concelament of the man holding the photo's identity; which is continued for quite a period of the film. This is what I believe makes this film so engaging; the amount of enigma codes that are presented in the beggining of the film encourages the viewer to keep watching right to the end, although due to the mixed up narrative they may not have a clue what is really going on!

Elements from this openig that I would like to include in my own opening are;
the use of black and white, a chronologically mixed narrative, audience retardation and the the use of tightly framed POV shots.