This fan perspective contains spoilers so it has been placed under the cut. However, once you’ve seen the film, please come back and read this!

I went to see “Remember Me” last night thinking I was going to see a dramatic, angst-ridden love story, and get to see hot Robert Pattinson not be a vampire, but instead, had my heart broken when I left that theater,.

I live in New York, born and raised on the upper-east side of Manhattan – home of the once Twin Towers. I was there that day. I’m 26 now, and was in High School when 9/11 happened – my classroom shook, our lives shaken forever – another part of my heart forever broken. I will forever remember that day, along with the subsequent weeks of funerals and memorial services I had to attend for friends and family members that lost their lives on that day.

This movie completely blind-sided me into reliving that day (I hadn’t read any spoilers etc), though I still do not go a single day without thinking of it regardless.

Now with that all said, I would like to state that, I am in NO WAY offended by how they ended this movie, nor do I think it was a “cop out” from the writers, or disrespectful in anyway. I feel that it was incredibly tastefully done, and I think anyone that is up in arms about it, is being, if I can share my opinion openly, ridiculous about it.

By no one ever talking about it, by people saying that it’s cruel to “remind people” of that day by putting it into a movie, I say this: You should be reminded. If we are to forget, or try and pretend like September 11th, 2001 never happened, and never mention it in movies/books etc, then you are saying all the people that lost their lives that day should be forgotten.

I would like you to say that to my Aunt who lost her husband – my cousins their father. I would like you to tell my best friend that her mother’s memory should just be forgotten because the day she died, and the events that caused her death, are just too sad for YOU to remember. I could list the dozens of people that I knew personally that died that day so that you can tell ME, and their loved ones, that the 9/11 events are just better forgotten. I’ll give you their phone numbers. I’d honestly like to see you try and tell them that.

In the end, I think it was a great movie. They handled the events at the end in a very tasteful manner, and Robert Pattinson really shined, and proved he honestly is a very good actor. This was quite possibly the saddest movie I have ever seen, but was also moving, and incredibly well-acted and honest. I am left heartbroken – but also touched

Was I surprised by the ending? Of course. But it honestly didn’t feel out of place, or there just to make people talk about the movie. This was a movie set in 2001, in September. It would have been out of place for them to just skip to like October as if nothing happened the month before or something.

I do maybe just wish I had seen all the signs that foreshadowed the ending so I would have been a little more prepared:

Twin Towers in the very first shot of the movie, figured out the year a little sooner (it never said 2001, only “ten years later” from the subway shooting scene that was in 1991), put two and two together that the speech Former President Bush was giving on the TV in one of the scenes was the huge controversial Stem Cell speech he gave in the summer of 2001, realized that they had gone to the beach for Labor day – only days before 9/11.

Was Robert Pattinson hot, and sex on a stick for most of this movie? Um, yes, yes he was. But that IS NOT what you were supposed to take away from this movie. We all know he’s hot.

You were supposed to take away that throughout this whole movie, especially with his father, you were shown that people take life and the people in their lives, for granted sometimes. Sometimes something completely out of know where, completely out of everyone’s control – like 9/11, like a train or car wrack – will happen, so you should “Live in the Moments” you do have with the people close to you. Not only tell your children that you love them, but prove it. Don’t allow petty little bitches in school to make you feel inferior because they make fun of you. Don’t let love pass you by because of one misunderstanding or fight.

I could go on and on, but the fact is, that this was a great movie – and if people would really have paid attention to the message they were suppose to take away from it, and not just “Omg RPatz is having sex with that Lost chick” or “How could they use 9/11 in the end – too soon, too soon!” – Then they all would be living much better lives today and forever because of it.

The whole point of this movie is said in it’s title: “Remember Me”. We need to remember the victims of that day, and their families. And if you take anything away from this movie, it should be the tag line for it: “Live in the moments” – that is what should stick with you forever.

Love and cherish life and those in your life. It really all can get taken away from you in mere seconds.

-Vanessa

Thank you to VanessaLoveJoy for her post on Rob’s IMDB message board!

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