Throughout the film, we are given glimpses of a conversation the main character has with a mysterious character on the phone. We know nothing about our mystery man, only what the director and cinematographer choose to display through the emotions of the leading actor. Through a close up, we can see the character's initial comfort and ease when telling a story through the phone until shock and horror run through his system when he reads the tattoo on his thigh telling him to never pick up the phone.
After the main character and the woman he meets have an imitate experience, they stand together in her house in front of the mirror. The stare in wonder at his tattooed body that gives the clues needed to find his wife's killer. Their relationship is clearly displayed in the medium shot; he stands, stalwart and distant, as she grasps his chest from behind. She wants him, and he wants nothing to do with her. All this is told through the correct use of the medium shot.
At the end of the film, the main character decides to destroy evidence that he has already "avenged" the murder of his wife in order to allow the continual puzzle to be forever incomplete. In a long shot, he enters a car outside an abandoned warehouse, and drives off. Through the use of this shot, the character is portrayed as alone and lost as he sets off, although he doesn't know, to complete a fool's errand. Only his polaroids are there to comfort him as the film ends and his quest begins.
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