Oh, or...errr....what was that movie?....blank.....blank......All the right men? something like that...
You know...talking about a suprising ending. That one totally had me. All the right men (hmm, not sure about the title still. Might have something completely different)
Mystic River did, too, although most people claim they knew the killer was the mute. I didn't, then again, I was severly hungover when I saw that one.
AHEM, After and hour of googling I found out that by "All the Right Men" i actually meant "The Usual Suspects!" - isn't that the same thing though? men, suspects, same difference...
oh yeah, so close i can't believe i didn't pick right up on it.
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pfffft. don't you see the direct link? in any case, it's a miracle i found it at all. i have a chronically bad memory for names. for example, i love kevin spacey, but i keep thinking (repeatedly) that his name is Douglas something, and then can never find him online because of that...
I know, I always get christian slater, some guy named slade and some other 3rd guy all mixed up.
seriously, I'm surprised I even remembered chrstian slaters name, and I'm probably wrong on that.
oh christ, and what about john hurt john herd william hurt/herd......I'm hopeless.
I'm even worse on womens names, I mean, who cares?
sometimes I'll be watching a movie and ask my husband "so, who's that guy"?
he'll say "why should I bother telling you, you're not going to remember".
oh,.....yeah......you're right......<munch munch munch> mmmmm, good tofu, want some?
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I think that he did kill his wife and that Sammy is just a figment of his imagination...a guy he made up to cope with killing his wife.
This is correct.
IIRC, Sammy was a real case he dealt with that he projected his memories on to. As in that false memory, the narrator's wife had diabetes, and he gave her an overdose due to his short-term memory loss. She had survived the rape, but then he killed her unintentionally. Teddy helped him track down the rapist, who he killed. Teddy then took advantage of the narrator's condition and uses his quest to kill people who interfere with his drug business. That's how I remember it.
I forgot about the drug business.....
Shazzer has it closely enough. There are enigmatic, unanswered questions in "Memento"-- it's the Kubrick movie that wasn't directed by Kubrick. Well, you could also insert Hitchcock into the plan -- the movie bears a lot of resemblance in construction to "Vertigo."
Shazzer is right. Although it is an unanswered question, presumably it happened as Shazzer explained. For sure is that 'Sammy Jankis didn't have wife' - (Teddy) . So presumably Leonard accidentally killed his own wife with insulin after the rape incident.
So I just watched this, much due to this thread. Anyway, two things came to mind:
1) The whole point, the very nature of the plot's 'twist', is that Leonard, after having been understood as the good guy for the entire film, is actually the bad guy. This simple fact goes a long way toward answering this thread's initial question.
But, 2) There's a quick shot toward the end of the film where Leonard and his wife are lying in bed together, and Leonard has a tattoo on his chest that says "I've Done It!" Given the context of the shot, this seems to imply the girl we've known to be Leonard's wife (i.e. the female presented in this role throughout the film) isn't even necessarily his wife. In other words, just as the first James G. turned into several others, it's possible there were several (or at least two) wives as well.
All in all, very complicated film...
I had to watch it three times before I really started to get it (I know, I know, I can be slow sometimes!)
