A unique mystery...YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE IT!

Rating: Null/10 (17 March 2002)

This was probably one of the best suspense thrillers that I have ever seen. I found it very creative because I have never seen a movie that started at the very end and revealed the past more and more throughout the movie. I first thought it was confusing because I didn't really get what was happening until the very end. But even when I saw the end I still wasn't sure of what really happened! I think this was the point of the movie. The story was about a man dealing with denial because his wife was brutally raped. He catches the two rapists in the act and he kills one of them. But the other one escapes. This is where I think the self denial comes in because the man will never find his wife's other rapist and doesn't really want to believe that. The man also developes short term memory loss due to the accident, meaning that he can't make any new memories. This is a very big problem because other people see his weakness and use it to make him do things for them. He believes that if he writes himself notes that he can rely on them, but he really can't. I think that the movie leaves the viewer with a mystery for him/her to make a conclusion from. But I don't think that there is a real conclusion and that many people might be to quick to come up with one just to comfort themselves or make them feel more secure. I think that the movie is trying to teach people the power of denial and that some things in life will always remain a mystery and can never be figured out. I think people are so afraid of this that they use denial to make themselves feel better. This is not bad and very natural. I think this movie opened my eyes to the brutal truth and gave me a whole new way of thinking. So if you can't figure out what really happens in this movie my advise is just to leave it at that.
I fell that I would rather know the truth and die, Than live a foolish lie.
Many people would disagree with me but that's just my opinion on life.