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But Mike, I don't think that's a narrative cheat nearly as much as a character indicator. She defines herself by outward appearance, one of her fundamental flaws. She seeks her identity in how she presents herself to others rather than in who she is. It bears a remarkable similarity to the...

The car falling is part of the destruction of the memory and not part of the real memory, just as during the real original moments they didn't discuss that she was being erased. We are seeing tainted memories throughout, usually marked by actions that indicate destruction of that memory. And...

SAT night, 9:30, maybe 30 people in the whole place, mostly empty.

Well, I'm not really arguing that they will get along fine now with that knowledge, but that they will have PERSPECTIVE on their troubles. It's a lot easier to deal with a setback when you can see the overall picture, and that is something they now have. They have seen the end of their...

As I said, I don't recall these. Perhaps it was after the credits began since my wife drug me out of there early (she is only willing to wait for the whole film some of the time).

it seemed to me that he meant DURING the procedure he was developing a resistance to it. I don't remember hearing the other line about erase you first but that would likely have been said inside his brain to his memory version of her in a imagined fight during the procedure. There is also a...

SPOILERS, but this is the discussion thread so its your own fault. ;) Quentin, I didn't read the film the same as the coda. In fact I felt like the whole Dunst action was Kaufman altering the tone from the "destined to repeat" view that we might expect to one of "enlightened optimism" that...