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.
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