The ending sucked!!
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Contrived, stuck in to make the film a tear jerker for no particular other reason.
BTW- I lived within eye shot of the trade center at the time and lost acquaintances in the towers, good people, on that day. I just don't think about what happened as a plot devices.
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The writer wrote this screenplay to honor those who lost their lives.
shareHow can you say that this movie used 9/11 as a twist just to get us to feel for the characters. Think, before that there was nothing that we could emotionally attach ourselves to. The guy that wrote the ending wasn't honoring 9/11 victims, he just used a cheap gimmick just to manipulate the audience to feel for Robert Pattinson's character. My uncle died during 9/11 and this movie did nothing but make me angry. Screw the writer, I hope he no longer gets work in Hollywood for what he has done.
shareI am sorry for your loss. Remember Me probably works best for those viewers not personally affected by 9/11. Angry, self-absorbed Tyler is not an easy character to empathize with initially, but many people eventually get absorbed in his rocky life, and when the end comes, these viewers feel the shock much more personally.
As many threads here explain, the writer did not tack on the ending, he started with it, namely the brief 9/11 bios he read, combined with personal events in his own young life. See http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/reacting-to-remember-me-an-interview-with -screenwriter-will-fetters/
I finally got around to reading that and the thing is that he wanted show an impact. Like after that incident with Tyler. He could've shown that twist at the beginning and show his family dealing with the loss of Tyler. That would've made a compelling drama. Instead he made it a twist and that comes across as offensive like it or not.
shareI don't know, I wonder if the writer started with the idea of 911 and all those who died. Those who died are famous in a way due to 911. To the outside world (other than their family and friends) it is what in a sense defines them. Maybe the writer wanted to define these people by their lives, their stories, their family and friends before that day. To show that they weren't just some who dies in the Towers. They didn't feel defined by the event - it just happened. If looked at this way, then the story could be seen as a fitting tribute to those who did die - their lives were about so much more than that day. It makes them human.
Remember me for who I was and not just for how and where I died.
I wonder if the writer started with the idea of 911 and all those who died.He did. He has stated he wrote the film after seeing the NYTimes' obituaries of all that died.
He was struck by the fact that each one of those people led a complex life and went off that day with no idea that it would be their last.
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Not necessarily. I lost a few friends in the Pentagon, and I still gave this a 9/10.
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youre confused-the writer exploited a real tragedy and used real loss in his stupid, below average movie
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