the question was something along the lines of the reattempts
             abd retries shown throughout the film.
             I felt this was basically just that famous overused philosophy of try and try again. Even though these people are complete and utter failures, they don't give up. They continue to try doing something until they finally get it done, and that is generally their only strength. People that are that prone to failure HAVE TO TRY AGIN or they will never be able to do anything in life (whether it's raising a family, or robbing a convenience store). Had everyone been able to succeed at something on the first try or giving up after failing on the first try, the movie would not have been as enjoyable to watch, and isn't that what's important?
             I think that Nathan Sr. walking in on Hi and his wife returning the baby helped to tie the film to a conclusion. It also helped give the viewer the impression that the two might be able to rethink their ideas of seperation. This scene also gives the couple the oppurtunity to explain their reasons for kidnapping the baby and exhibits to the viewer that the couple is hopefully headed back on the right path.
             Maybe not between Leonard and Nathan Jr as much as Leonard and Cage. This may seem obvious to others, but I thought that this bounty hunter on a bike was not only a representative of everything that was bad in cage, but was some how part of cage. When cage kills him, he is able to return the baby and atleast dream of a perfect life. Before he kills him he is pretty much incompetent and criminalistic.
             I think you might be able to compare Smalls with Nathan Jr.. If you look at in terms of what could have become of Nathan Jr. if he were kept from his real family. Smalls mentions in the film that as a baby he was sold on the black market which leads you to believe he too was possibly taken from his family as an infant. Smalls was undoubtedly the product of very poor upbringing. When you think of wh...