Robert Pattinson in Remember Me


It has been awhile since Remember Me was released (2010) but for some reason its message resonates after all this time and you will understand why when you see it (if you do). It does not look like a film with great ambition and perhaps its most interesting feature is that is starred by Robert Pattison who plays the role of a young man, Tyler Hawkins, in constant quarrel with his father, a cold and ruthless businessman played by Pierce Brosnan. Looking to move away from everything his father represents this young man lives alone and in constant trouble until he meets a young woman who becomes the love of his life. In the meantime thanks to the only nexus that he still with his father, his little sister, Tyler tries to make amends with the father who truly worships and who also loves him the same. Nothing extraordinary till there but then it is the ending. One day Tyler visits his father's office while his fatjer is out and at the same time his little sister is away in her school. Everyone is unaware of what is going to happen and even the audience is led to believe otherwise (I myself thought the movie was only a romantic film that showed the dilemmas a broken family has to face these days and how love can unite the members of those families if that love is real) and then the teacher writes on the board the date. All of a sudden you understand you have been deceived, fooled to believe the story was happening in OUR TIME but it was not. And you see Tyler looking at Manhattan out of the window of his father's office while the object of his doom approaches silently.
As I said it looks like a movie with no great ambition but in the end it becomes something else entirely. If only for that you should see it. Out of five stars this hidden "Easter egg" deserves a three. 

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