The narrative of Memento challenges the traditional narrative structure, it is in non-chronological order this confuses the film, and to make you feel as if you are in the mental 'confused' state of the main character Lennie. The film starts with a Polaroid picture fading away in reverse order as a metaphor for the general narrative and confused state in which the whole film is representing.
Black and white scenes are the forward real life scenes that come to meet the colour scenes coming backwards, this slowly adds more detail to the facts you know, adds more facts and introduces new sides to the characters involved, creating false hero's, new villains and a new sense of you 'hero' in the film Lennie.
The character of Lennie is a mysterious character in the way the film represents him, he feels as if he has to do what he can to gain revenge on the 'murder' of his wife by using the slim facts and stories and extremely slim evidence he gets fed by his supposable friends. This leads him to start to trust no one and his memory makes it virtually impossible to have a true sense of trust in people. He is incapable of making new memories, although it is suspicious towards the end as he chooses to know about what he wants to know and how he wants to remember things. His charicter turns out to be less innocent and more sinister than we 1st think.
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