Usual Suspects & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

In the Usual Suspects, Bryan Singer mysteriously twists the viewer's mind into believing the false tale of Verbal, when 
verbal is truly Keyser Soze.  In this scene, it begins with a close up shot on Verbal's face.  This makes verbal seem innocent have nothing to hide.  Typically villians in movies are shown mysteriously with long shots, typically too dark to see.  Since Verbal has none of these going for him, he is perceived to be innocent.Verbal tells the intense tale on how Keyser got his notorious name, in which fast film stock is used which makes the viewer not sure what is going on and feel disoriented, making Keyser's image in the mind not clear.  Also, during the flashback, high contrast lighting is used as Keyser is walking away from the burning buildings, to make the fires seem more bright and dangerous, and hiding Keyser's face and further darkening his image, while the fire making seem like he's escaping hell. 

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry uses confusion and a reversed script making the film hard to follow yet quite capturing. One of the main techniques he uses is the use of cool colors vs.warm colors.  In this scene Clementine's hair is a bright red, which highlights her energetic and open personality, versus the cool colors that Joel always wear giving a more closed-personality vibe.  The medium shots used in this scene are close enough to capture the enticing memories of Joel, but far enough away to factor in the symbolic book store with disappearing books, perfectly done by Gondry. This scene also uses formalist light preference (artificial light) to make the whole room have light, rather than have shadows. This makes the memory seem less scary than some of the preceding memories, giving the relationship a revamp of what it ended like.  It shows he doesn't want to forget her and the light makes her seem much more welcoming than in other scenes.