Remember Me recounts the doomed affair between two emotionally damaged individuals who bond over the tragedies that marred their respective childhoods. Pattison is clearly eager to showcase his range and this is certainly a less chaste on-screen partnership. He plays Tyler, withdrawn, neglected and a perpetual disappointment to his distant father. Ally is the apposite dysfunctional love interest who struggles endlessly with damage inflicted as the sole witness to her mother’s murder ten years previous. Remember Me has been severely criticised both for its melodramatic tone (which has been all too cleverly concealed by its advertising campaign) and for the trivial treatment of events towards its close but these occasional oversights are more than compensated for by the solid performances from its cast (Tyler’s interactions with his bookish younger sister are beautifully sincere) while the ‘controversial’ ending seems entirely appropriate for a story about the injustices of love and loss.
Words: Aoife O’Regan
