Editing Analysis

Originally, I was going to say that the editing of the movie "Memento" was one that I think was defined by its edits. Similar works have used the same presentation, such as "Irreversible."

We are first shown the end of the story. The last few minutes is revealed to us, then we are returned to some time before this last few minutes. Once we catch up to where we started, we jump back again, eventually leading us to the beginning of the story and effectively changing the beginning to the end and vice versa.

The cuts are obvious, but for this unique style of story-telling, they do not need to be seamless. The location of where we start and stop each sequence is what is really important, thus revealing events to us in a way which make the previous sequence so much more entertaining and impact-full.

HOWEVER, I'm supposed to find a piece that is short, as the overlords of this blog have willed so.

So, I remembered this music video from ought two, Michelle Branch's "Goodbye to You."

It follows the same style of cuts, telling a story by starting us off at the end and working us back to the beginning. So lucky you, you get to see a Michelle Branch music video. I hope you enjoy 106.7 Lite FM



So you see, if this story were chronological, it'd just be a boring video about a girl who leaves a guy and joins a bunch of young hobos, then pawns stuff and gets a car and then lets a fish go. Because they reverse the order of events, the car and fish are extremely important. That fish is extremely important.