Inception fans will....
"Inception" fans will trace the roots to this ambiguous film. It is doubtful that they will be drawn to it, but credit must go to where it is deserving.
I have to have my official opinion of this film. Though I wish I would have just read the transcript, as it was exceedingly boring and proved to be a five minute film stretched to an agonizing limit,yet the idea was great. This is a completely ambiguous yet character-defined literary work. My advice, view it at double speed.
The married woman has a perfectly clear memory of every detail, which she must completely deny to the bitter end. Her guilt forces her to deny every detail, in a cloyingly manner. She does entertain the idea of letting her lover back into her life.
The one-night lover fell in love with her beauty and his desire was based on lust, not love. Having been with many lovers, his recollection is not pure and crisp. Indeed his desire to remember somewhat meaningless details is perhaps only tied to his desire to have her again. If he can accomplish a revival of their passion, then there can be true meaning in their affair, rather than mere selfishness.
The husband is successful in a cold and heartless way, having a very sharp sense of his wife's inner person. He may, as guilt would suggest strongly, be able to determine his wife's lurid actions and respond in that same harsh and cruel manner.
Certainly, there is the chance that real love can be expressed within an affair. The two lovers may reunite once each year, but only as long as it suits them and their individual desires. Is it a heart that longs for passion and excitement? Will it reopen a wound that has only recently healed? Could it become the death of a marriage and love? Is the audience swept into a desire toward writing the ending themselves? And would we watch knowing that the ending is left open, vague, and ambiguous. Ambitious? Yes. Masterfully crafted? Not quite. Did it make Nolan want to recreate this idea in his film?