Close Analysis – Memento Memento (2000) has been purposefully edited in reverse order, to complement the character of Leonard Shelby and emphasize the film’s unique non-linear narrative structure. The audience is further enabled to observe the film through the perspective of Leonard: fragmented and out of order. The distinctive editing patterns used in the film, in its temporal structure for example, reflect Leonard’s thought process and way of organizing what he knows. His method to piece all of the information he gathers is through polaroids he takes and the specific short descriptions he scribbles down of the various people he meets. Leonard’s end goal, being finding out who raped and killed his wife, is prolonged by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss by the medical term, anterograde amnesia. The first section consists of a specific type of editing to aid in clarifying the role of the polaroid photos. The scene begins with a close up of a polaroid being held in a hand and is consequently followed by a shot of the same hand shaking the photo as it develops. The polaroid appears as if it being undeveloped as the scene plays in reverse to the audience. Until Leonard shoots Teddy, the pace of the editing has been manipulated to be relatively slow. This then immediately cuts to showing Leonard in the hotel room in a monochromatic color scheme. This is a complete contrast to the opening scene as the editing is now at a developing pace. It