Witnessing the rape and not taking any meaningful action to stop it leaves Mitchell Hayes with a fractured sense of honor. ... These characters, like Susan, her children, and the regulars at the bar, are all flat static characters that represent Mitchell's life before the incident, and do not change their perception of him. ...
The looping of primarily the colour scenes represents continuity and its effects over both Leonard's perception of time and time in itself. ... Throughout the text there is a constant sense of caesura which calls on the spectators to collate and assemble the information presented within the narrative to allow interpretation to take place. The absence of long shots, wide shots and panning all contribute to the disestablishment of setting; being a sense of time and place. The analogy of real time versus time sequences within Memento acts as an element which propels a sense of disorient...
