Remember Me

I remember seeing the trailer in the movies a while back, and last Tuesday, I said to myself, well if you really want to get your own opinion on it, then you have to see it so I rented it. Some reviews considered it a bad film because  it started with a tragic event and ended with one, but that was not enough to stop me, so when I came home I told my sister Denise if she wanted to see it with me and she said she didn´t like it. Hesitation comes to my mind at this moment, which of course then transformed into I have to see it because I rented it and I want to get a first hand view of it and then write something about the movie.
The story centered in Tyler, played by Robert Pattinson (otherwise known as Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga), a 21 year old that still grieves over the suicide of his elder brother Michael and yet manages to be the perfect companion for his little sister, Caroline.
On the other side, we have Ally, the daughter of a cop and amazingly enough, the movie begins with her (I thought it would be the other way around). She is 11 and is waiting for the subway with her mom in a completely deserted station and there are two young present, who, of course, are up to no good. They take away the mother´s handbag and well, I found here a small flaw in the movie, a small detail that kept me wondering throughout the rest of the movie. The guys get into the subway (no one comes out), the door closes and then, for what appears to be some kind of a miracle, the doors open again and they shoot the mother, leaving Ally by herself until her daddy shows up. I ran this scene back in  my head a couple of times and I found out that it didn´t seem real, I mean, really, when you think about it, what are the chances of you being by yourself with your daughter while you get this bad feeling that the other two people act like they want to attack you, and you still wait for the subway to appear. And I mean, come on, the whole scene puts itself in motion at the exact moment that the subway stops.
Well, I think I better move forward. Tyler and Ally both go to the same college, and it so happens that her father is the cop who, the night before, had pushed Tyler against a police car for going on the defense of two bystanders who witnessed an attack and are going to be sent to jail. Tyler´s roommate finally gets to him that dating his daughter would be the perfect revenge.
So then we see the couple dating, while Tyler tries to get his father´s attention to the fact that his behavior towards Caroline is driving her away and has all these issues inside of him that he can´t even talk with his roommate, which adds that extra spicy flavor (in my opinion).  And then we have the couple fighting when the truth finally comes out, which also opens a bridge for the relationship father-daughter-son in Tyler`s case to improve.
I knew that somehow the tragic ending was coming, but I think the problem is not where that person dies or the day, but rather that it looks like somehow it was a "I´m-waiting-peacefully-to-be-killed " right when things seem to get better and a breakthrough that reveals that not everything is like the way you see it, saying that people have different means of caring or remembering someone.
I think that Robert Pattinson meets the challenge with his character, and it´s really a risky move to try different movies while you still are in people´s mind as Edward Cullen in Twilight. But I also believe that actors have to go through that process so that they can show us what kind of characters they can make. Think about it, over a decade ago Leonardo di Caprio was the cross-star lover in Titanic and there were a lot of women who were charmed by it, but as time moved on, he has adopted more challenging characters, ranging from an undercover cop to a man in a psychic institute to an expert on the mind (The departed, Shutter Island and Inception) so we can expect that something like that could happen to Pattinson.
It´s a tragic love story that also deals with family relationships that are difficult to handle when you have experienced divorce or lose of a family member, and I think that in that aspect is a good movie. I was surprised at the ending about finding myself in similar situations which I could relate to so it was worth it. I don´t regret seeing it.