Writer: Will Fetters
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emile De Ravin
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Teenage hearthrob, Robert Pattinson takes a serious role in Allen Couter’s Remember Me. The film is about Tyler Hawkins, a 21-year old, going to school and living in New York City, prior to 9/11. Tyler is a misunderstood, smoking university student who has a distant father (Pierce Brosnan) and a 12-year-old sister (Ruby Jerins). After a drunken night with his best friend, Aidan, Tyler is put into jail by an aggressive cop (Chris Cooper). When Tyler is bailed out of jail, his best friend convinces him to go out with the cop’s daughter, Allie, played by Emile De Ravin. Not knowing about her father arresting him, Allie agrees to go out with Tyler and the two start to develop a real relationship. In Remember Me, Robert Pattinson is refreshingly not a lovestruck vampire, or a teenage wizard, or Salvador Dali. He’s actually just a normal guy. Still brooding? Kind of, but we’ll take what we can get. What I like about this film is that although the film focuses around his character, we get to know a lot about the other characters in the movie as well, so they’re not just props in his life. Emile De Ravin is a refreshing young Australian actress, who holds her own as Allie, so she isn’t just drooling over Robert Pattinson. De Ravin and Pattinson create a genuine romance between their two characters that is believable and adorable at the same time. Their relationship is kept light and isn’t always intense. Pierce Brosnan does a powerful performance as Tyler’s father, Charles. He makes it so, at times, we hate his character and yet at other times, we feel sympathy for him. He’s officially redeems himself for me after his performance in Mamma Mia. Chris Cooper is also intriguing as Allie’s father. He, as well as Brosnan, leaves the audience torn as to whether to like him or hate him. It may seem clichéd that one of these fathers is abusive, and the other one distant but the film does a great job of explaining this. The film intrigued me at the beginning. My intrigue lessened midway through, but my interest really picked up within the last 30 minutes of the film and that’s what made me decide I liked this film very much. There were cheesy moments, or predictable lines in scenes with Chris Cooper, but there was also witty dialogue and clever lines in scenes between Emile De Ravin and Robert Pattinson. Remember Me is not a sappy, typical, coming of age story as is often the case today. It is a realistic love story, and a poignant portrayal of what the death of loved ones can do to people.
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