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I don't understand what is confusing about the end of Memento. To my mind the plot is neatly resolved, sure during the movie it gets "confusing" part way through, but it all makes sense by the end.
Only IF you've been able to pay attention through the whole thing. Now with Memento I think they did a fantastic job with the script so that in a movie that could have been a nightmare to follow was actually not too bad (how it didn't win an award for the script is beyond me). Still, at the end there are questions to ask (or at least I did): "Was it really the truth he heard at the end of the movie?" Because he'd been tricked so many times before by people, how do when know the cop was telling the truth? I suspected he was, but I definitely was thinking about it all for a while. After a second viewing there was left little doubt in my mind that what the cop said was true, however, given that one of the themes of the movie is that the things we trust can often betray us even when all the pieces fit together, you have to question if even at the end of the movie what we really heard was the truth.

But more than anything, a movie that requires constant attention to "get it" is not something my wife would enjoy. Additionally the insulin scene would end it for her if the confusion didn't. She did buy me the DVD though; she just won’t watch it. That’s fine because there are several movies that go the other way!
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