Stop that.

@avclub-3c5e3b7f7aa2237a8003ee11f5cd2143:disqus  Oh, I know.  It's just that I'm just about the only person I know whose seen either of those films, let alone both.  But still, he's definitely got a respectable career going.

@avclub-3c5e3b7f7aa2237a8003ee11f5cd2143:disqus  Oh, I know.  It's just that I'm just about the only person I know whose seen either of those films, let alone both.  But still, he's definitely got a respectable career going.

I hope so.

I hope so.

That's a good point.  There are worse paths a career could take.

That's a good point.  There are worse paths a career could take.

Did you ever see the flash of Lenny in the mental hospital when he's telling about Sammy Jenkis?  The doctor walks by Sammy and he turns into Leonard, but it's so quick that it barely registers?  Neat!

Did you ever see the flash of Lenny in the mental hospital when he's telling about Sammy Jenkis?  The doctor walks by Sammy and he turns into Leonard, but it's so quick that it barely registers?  Neat!

See also: dead girlfriends (or ex-girlfriends for whom bats still carry a torch.)

See also: dead girlfriends (or ex-girlfriends for whom bats still carry a torch.)

I thought what she meant was that by her own spending, she would force Peter to spend so much in the primaries that even if he won, he would be all but out of fund-raised money when running against Kresteva.  That would leave Kresteva to well out-spend him in the election, leading to a likely Kresteva victory.  I…

I thought what she meant was that by her own spending, she would force Peter to spend so much in the primaries that even if he won, he would be all but out of fund-raised money when running against Kresteva.  That would leave Kresteva to well out-spend him in the election, leading to a likely Kresteva victory.  I…

Also, he deserves to be more well-known than he is.  He's great in this and L.A. Confidential.  I mean, he's hardly had a bad career or anything, but he does seem a step or two down from where he should be.

Also, he deserves to be more well-known than he is.  He's great in this and L.A. Confidential.  I mean, he's hardly had a bad career or anything, but he does seem a step or two down from where he should be.

I had a theater professor who more or less wrote off this movie because Harold Pinter did it first in Betrayal.

I had a theater professor who more or less wrote off this movie because Harold Pinter did it first in Betrayal.

I don't feel drunk…

I don't feel drunk…

He chose not to remember it.  He says early that memory is problematic; it changes the color of a car, the height of a suspect, etc, and yet he relies on his own earlier memories as pure fact, when in fact they've gotten as muddled as any memory gets.