Re: Remember Me movie discussion
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:07 am
I don't think you missed anything, it may have just been the background during the dramatic pauses.
I still agree w/ Roger Ebert's review. They ended it like a greek tragedy, nothing came out of it that wasn't already happening. One of my favorite books is My Sister's Keeper, and it does end in tragedy, but something very good comes out of it.
I still agree w/ Roger Ebert's review. They ended it like a greek tragedy, nothing came out of it that wasn't already happening. One of my favorite books is My Sister's Keeper, and it does end in tragedy, but something very good comes out of it.
"Remember Me" tells a sweet enough love story, and tries to invest it with profound meaning by linking it to a coincidence. It doesn't work that way. People meet, maybe they fall in love, maybe they don't, maybe they're happy, maybe they're sad. That's life. If, let us say, a refrigerator falls out of a window and squishes one of them, that's life, too, but it's not a story many people want to see. We stand there looking at the blood seeping out from under the Kelvinator and ask with Peggy Lee, is that all there is?
If we invest in a film's characters, what happens to them should be intrinsically important to us. We don't require emotional reinforcement to be brought in from outside. The movie tries to borrow profound meaning, but succeeds only in upstaging itself so overwhelmingly that its characters become irrelevant.