“You
once told me, our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch. Is that true
for everybody, or is it just poetic bullshit?”
Remember Me is
a movie I have been wanting to see for the past few years. I had it downloaded
at one point but I had no room on my hard drive so it had was one of those
movies I figured I would find again. Now Remember
Me is on Netflix so no downloading it for me this time! My brother and his girlfriend
just watched the movie which in turn finally put fire under my ass to watch it
after having wanted to for so many years.
In 1991 Ally and her mother were waiting on the subway
platform to head home. It was late at night and they were the only ones there
when two guys dressed all in black started looking at them. Ally’s mother
noticed that the two guys were eyeing her up. They came up to her and told them
just to take her bag and leave them alone. The train comes, the mother stares
them down, the guys realize she can ID them, and one of them shoots her from
the train killing her. Ally’s father is called to the scene. He is a police
detective.
A few years later, the story goes to a guy named Tyler
Hawkins (Robert Pattinson). His older brother Michael killed himself a few
years before and every year his family gathers at his grave. Tyler’s parents
are divorced. His father (Pierce Brosnan) is a big lawyer at his own law firm
and never has the time for him and his younger sister Caroline. Tyler has not
been the same since Michael killed himself. He acts out and gets into trouble. One
night after him and his friend left a bar they witness a fight. Tyler
immediately gets in the middle of the fight to get all his frustration and
emotion out. The police come and the detective is Ally’s father. He lets Tyler
and the friend go but for some stupid reason Tyler aggravates the detective and
gets himself thrown in jail.
The friend is outside the school talking with a teacher
when he sees the detective from the fight pull up with Ally to drop her off at
school. She goes to the same college as Tyler and they are even in the same
class. His friend has him go up to Ally (Emilie de Ravine) and ask her to a
party to mess with her father. Ally and Tyler wind up really liking each other.
She gets drunk and passes out and stays the night. Her father is not happy he
hits her and she goes back to Tyler’s apartment.
Ally winds up basically living with Tyler and his friend.
Neither of them feels as lost as they once felt. Their anger and resentment and
emotions from their loses are still there but they are not as prominent.
Other things happen that would be all jumbled if I tried
to explain them so I will stop here with the summary. And the ending… honestly
it belongs with one of the best/saddest twists in a movie ever. You will never
ever guess what happens.
I liked the acting a lot. Robert Pattinson needs more
credit than those dumb ass Twilight
movies the guy has a good range as an actor. Emilie de Ravine was great. It was
nice seeing her outside a sci-fi/fantasy story. Pierce Brosnan’s character was
a dick but in the end he realizes what is important. Lena Olin plays Tyler’s
mother. I have not seen her in anything since Alias went off the air almost ten
years ago! Kate Burton played Brosnan’s secretary. Gotta give her a shout out
because she will always be Ellis Grey from Grey’s
Anatomy to me.
Was Remember Me
worth seeing having wanted to for so many years? Yes, it was. I really liked
it. The story was well written, the acting was great, and the direction really
helped you feel all the emotions of all the characters. I liked with the story
how it showed the worst in people be them family members or just random people
that make others suffer. Yet this suffering is balanced with love. I have no
idea if that made any sense but just know that all the characters are suffering
from something tragic and they all want some kind of love in their lives. Remember
Me is a movie I highly recommend watching.
