Us = Humans = Lenny

I like the fact that Christopher Nolan's Memento doesn't have a definite solution. The film is really all about how humans believe what we want to believe. The movie starts off in a subjective view of a picture, which the lead character, Lenny (Guy Pearce), is holding. So obviously Nolan wants us to follow this movie, along with Lenny in a way. At the end, but really the beginning, we find out what Teddy tells Lenny to be the truth. But still the film has many factors that oppose that "solution".

If you finish the movie, and you have a strong opinion one way or another on what really happened with Lenny and his wife, you, too are doing what Lenny did; Believing what you want to believe. Christopher Nolan created Lenny, which I think represents humans as a whole in some ways, and as we watch Lenny, we do the same thing. Lenny believed what he wanted. We, as an audience believed what we wanted. Nolan definitely suceeded in what I think was his originial goal.

Kiss Me Deadly

First of all, I forget; Why was this the title? But that's not what I'm about to talk about. I would just like to comment on the fact that this movie was, um, well, not good. And the two endings, really made no change to the rest of the film. I see where the Robert Aldrich film was trying to go, with the whole "nuclear secrets" in America stuff. But, I think this would've been a much better movie if Aldrich had stuck to the originial storyline of the book it was based off of (Mafia drug money in a box instead of a bomb...). But, once again all this is just my opinion. And who decided to add that alternate ending? If you are going to create an additional ending to a film, atleast make it something that really effects the aftermath of the story...Who cares if they die at the end or not? I mean no offense but Ralph Meeker's character, Mike, really wasn't the GREATEST fellow. All he did was...Hm..Well, allow that dumb lady to get the box and make the bomb blow up. Hm. Alright. That's all I have to say.