A focus on how both narrative and generic features create meaning and generate response in the first 10 minutes of Memento.
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MACRO ESSAY: A focus on how both narrative and generic features create meaning and generate response in the first 10 minutes of Memento. " SCENE ONE FADE IN: INT. DERELICT HOUSE - DAY [COLOUR SEQUENCE] A Polaroid photograph, clasped between finger and thumb, showing a crude, crime-scene flash picture of a man's body lying on a decaying wooden floor, a bloody mess where his head should be. The image in the photo starts to fade as we superimpose titles. The hand holding the photo suddenly fans it in a rapid flapping motion then holds it still. The image fades more, and again the picture is fanned. As the titles end, the image fades to nothing. The hand holding the photo flaps it again, then places it at the front of a Polaroid camera. The camera sucks the blank picture up, then the flash goes off." As the Polaroid fades to white, so we begin with a blank...


