Remember Me
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Remember Me
Director: Allen Coulter
Writer: Will Fetters
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin and Pierce Brosnan
Ally: "It is cheap. I've seen this scene a hundred times."
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin and Pierce Brosnan
Ally: "It is cheap. I've seen this scene a hundred times."
Me too Ally, me too.
A conflicted showcase of emotions leaves you deaf in a dissonance of teenage anxiety. Every cinematic crime needs a probable cause and this won't disappoint your detective nature. A money hog producer misunderstood what the audience cares about and pre-ordered a script. Well, here it is, Mr. Mega-man.
Sudden, alarming violence disarms the viewer after the opening titles as we learn about Ally's past. Jumping ahead ten years and the tear-jerking saga of a romantic comedy, hateful of its own genre, begins.
Tyler (Robert Pattinson) is a nihilistic loose cannon, son of a wealthy New York businessman (Pierce Brosnan) who gets into back-alley fights by night and works in a bookstore by day. Along with his, comedy relief, roommate, Aidan (Tate Ellington), he decides to get back to the cop (Chris Cooper) that arrested them by taking his daughter, Ally (Emilie De Ravin), out on a date. While the filmmaker browses through their intimidating relationship, lies, deceit and the desperate feeling of young man aiming to change the world, emerge.
Unfolding the Romeo and Juliet stereotype through feuding with its premise, the script compromises mope with misery, love with anguish and family with manipulation.
Shot in low tone grays, despite summertime, because Tyler has got the blues and filmed in an earthbound style that throws carelessly the emotional weight on the young actors, I am left wondering if it was pre-determined or a marketing stunt for the over-popular, Twilight star, Pattinson. Probably both.
The dramatically calculated performance of Robert Pattinson begs the question if the oldies' cinematic device was used to shine more light on its star. Throw the secondary characters on the curve in order to make the protagonist stand on its own, conquering hearts and minds. Times have changed though and the audience is a different beast nowadays.
Authentic and witty, Emilie De Ravin is buried under the rumble of her co-star. Her performance is glowing with enthusiasm and lets you take a glimpse of her unforced, upbeat sentiment but can't avoid the shadow of Pattinson towering over her.
Mouthing off to the viewer, the film challenges its small time scope predecessors. Wanting to be so much more than a tragic love affair it makes choices and shifts directions with the same neurosis as its character, Tyler. Never stopping to think while pasting, it leads to the inevitable outcome of an underwhelming, pompous epilogue.
The extracurricular "Remember Me" is easily forgettable but impresses with risky decisions.
