10 Tragic Movie Endings That Probably Had Awesome Silver Linings

4. Memento

The Tragic Ending: If you€™re going to get pedantic about it, Memento€™s ending actually comes at the start of the film - that would be because Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who€™s desperately seeking out the man who he thinks killed his wife, also happens to have an untreatable form of memory loss that means he can€™t even remember what he had for breakfast, and the film runs in reverse in order to give viewers a sense of his condition. However, the literal ending of the film reveals a hell of a kicker: Leonard€™s friend Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) has been taking advantage of Leonard all along, getting him to kill people who aren€™t even related to Leonard€™s wife's death. The real attacker was killed more than a year before, it turns out, which prompts Leonard to put his only friend, Teddy, on his hit list (you see his death by bullet to the brain at the beginning of the film). The Silver Lining: Let€™s look on the bright side here - Leonard may have killed dozens of people that were totally innocent, but, with Teddy dead, at least he doesn€™t have a sociopathic opportunist getting him to kill anyone else. Plus, Leonard already killed the attacker responsible over a year ago - justice!