Response Paper 2 length: 500-700 words style: MLA (be certain you cite any sources you use) film: Memento due: by midnight, Tuesday 26 February Choose one of the following questions and answer it using specific details and observations of the movie’s formal composition. You do not need an introduction or a conclusion (this is a very short paper), but you should have a clearly identifiable thesis, which makes a claim about the way the film’s meaning is conveyed through its form. -- ~What is one object (prop) that is important to the film? How do characters interact with it, and how is it relevant to the plot or story? How is its significance communicated in the way that it is filmed? How is it a part of the film’s meaning, in terms of its interest in broad themes like violence, revenge, tragedy, grief, belief, stories, history, disability, the nature of the self, the nature of relationships, etc? ~What is one setting that is important to the film? How do characters move through this setting or talk about it in ways that show its role in the movie? How is it dressed, lit, and filmed to convey its significance to both the story and the themes listed above? ~What is one place where a specific piece of language is important to this movie? What is the importance of this piece of language, and does it occur visually, as dialogue, as voice-over or voice-off, as non-diegetic language, etc.? How does this language contribute to the film’s representation of the themes listed above? nb: I’ll leave Memento on reserve at the library; it’s also available in iterations of variable, but mostly low, quality on YouTube. I definitely don’t recommend you rely on these YouTube versions, but you can use them to remind yourself of plot details or dialogue if necessary. **To get full credit for this assignment, continue to analyze and write specifically: identify specific details and describe what the effect of those specific details have, distinct from what other elements of the movie does: how they contribute to the effectiveness of the scene, why you believe the director made these particular choices.** ...