Remember Me.

So, I just got back from seeing Remember Me.
First off, I would like to say that I went alone, which I have never done on purpose until tonight (one time I went to the wrong movie theater and saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall alone). Now, I know this may not seem like a grand feat, but for me, it felt empowering. Yes, people everywhere, it is okay to see a movie alone.

I would have waited for a friend to be able to go with, but this movie was filmed when I was in New York, and so I've been anxiously awaiting it's release.

Now, back to the movie.

Well, I'll go ahead and say I was extremely pleased to see Robert Pattinson not playing a vampire, and for all you sexually frustrated Twilight fans (myself included), it was very nice to see some action in which Pattinson did not pull away and claim he could hurt the girl when they kissed.

I adored the girl who played his sister, and the Pattinson's best friend who took the edge off the movie very successfully with his funny lines. While I was hoping for more funny parts, I overall really enjoyed the movie.

Emilie De Ravin was great, and until the end, the movie succeeded in making me want to move to New York, hang out at NYU and look for Robert Pattinson look-a-likes. I also found myself wondering in the many scenes where my main focus was Pattinson's exquisite jaw line and good looks, where are men like that in my every day life? I don't know about you, but I don't walk around Gainesville and spot men as good looking as him on a daily basis.

SPOILER ALERT DO NOT READ ON IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE!!!!

Let's talk about the end now, and if you haven't seen the movie stop reading... no really stop... STOP. Okay, you've been forewarned.

I, unlike the rest of the movie goers in the theater with me, read a spoiler, so I was unhappily counting down the moments until Pattinson went into the Twin Tower and the movie ended. I wish they hadn't done the movie like that. In creative writing, they teach you to never let the main character die as a cop out to solving problems, but in the movie, all the problems were being solved, everything was going his way for once, and then the writers had him killed him on 9/11.

When the chalkboard was revealed with the date, there was a collective "noooo" and groans that accompanied various negative words. The man in back of me simply said in a sad tone, "I remember it like it was yesterday...," and that seemed to be the general consensus. For people who can remember 9/11, I think the scene, where the camera pans out and you see that Pattinson is standing in the tower, is extremely powerful.

I don't know how people who are seeing the movie because they love Edward Cullen and don't have a vivid recollection of 9/11 will react when they see the end of the movie. For people who remember the live coverage, who will forever remember the tower collapsing and people jumping 100 stories up, the scene is moving, because no matter who you are, if you remember that day and the person next to you does, you are connected. You can turn to the person next to you and they will know how you feel, they will most likely be feeling a similar thing, because everyone has a memory of where they were, what they were doing, how they were told, and this movie captures that feeling as well.

The movie shows the simultaneous action of every main character when Pattinson and the assistant, which you grow to love with every scene are killed, and in doing so, shows how each person will be forever imprinted with that day. I think everyone in the movie is brought together by the last 5 minutes of the movie, and not only the people in the movie but the people in the theater.

Overall, the movie is a tearjerker, but I enjoyed Pattinson's role and I was not disappointed.

(photos from entertainmentwise.com)