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In what way does the opening of the film Memento align the audience with and enable us to understand the main character Leonard Shelby
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In what way does the opening of the film Memento align the audience with and enable us to understand the main character Leonard Shelby From the start of the film 'Memento' the audience is instantly hooked, and compelled to carry on watching the film, to find out whether Leonard Shelby will accomplish his mission to avenge his wife, by finding and killing the man who raped and murdered her. Since the rape and murder of his wife, Leonard has had no short-term memory, and this is his final memory. Leonard continues to survive by using post-it notes, and Polaroid pictures, as well as the help of Teddy, an undercover police officer, using clever and strategic survival techniques and a bar-maid, Natalie, both of whom possibly have their own different reasons for helping Leonard. The film's use of techniques such as switching between black and white scenes, and running in a non-chronological...
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