How 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' relates to our thriller

What is The Long Kiss Goodnight about?

The Long Kiss Goodnight is about a school-teacher called Samantha (Geena Davis) who suffers from amnesia and remains curious to how she acquired it 8 years prior. After she is involved in a car accident causing a brief concussion, she recuperates to see that she possesses skills with a knife that she cannot explain. When trouble from her past finds her again she demonstrates the prowess to subdue and kill him bare-handed and so leaves with private detective Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) in order to protect her daughter Caitlin. Disturbed by her haunting reminiscences and frightened by a group of people who are terrorising her, Samantha begins to recover her memories and along with Henessey, they discover that she was once a top government assassin.

How does The Long Kiss Goodnight relate to our thriller?

The Long Kiss Goodnight relates to our thriller in that at the beginning, Samantha was unable to remember anything before the event 8 years ago that caused her amnesia. In our thriller, Sean Finch wakes up to find that he cannot remember what happened the previous night. Although they both involve memory loss, they also differ in this way as Samantha’s memory loss was long-term, while Sean’s is short-term. Another way in which they are similar is that they are both required to kill people so they can survive. However, Samantha also needs to rescue her daughter, whereas Sean is only trying to save himself.