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Memento - She Didn't Die, She Left You

Memento is one of the only films I think where you never get an answer to the question that you started with. Instead, Nolan switches the question on you at the end. Like his, like this lie to himself to give himself. It's almost like he announces the abjaya into existence for the spectator at that point.

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