Rememory (2017)

You can get the gist of this entire film merely by listening to Miss Barbra Streisand's rendition of the song "The Way We Were." The Streisand song lasts three minutes. "Rememory" lasts one-hundred-eleven minutes. Take your pick.The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about the phenomenon of eternal recurrence, which is a fancy way of explaining why the characters in this film can't seem to let go of their memories. There is a list of emotions given at the end of this film that serves as a reference point for eternal recurrence, not of the memories themselves, but of how the past can remain with us and haunt us forever: "regret," "hope," "grief," "anger," "passion," and so on. Those emotions are the residue of memories.This film does a good job in raising some questions about the power of memory. On the other hand, it is gimmicky and tends to promote the view that we are all monsters. With the exception of Mrs. Dunn (Julia Ormond), it was difficult to feel empathy for the various "clients" who had bought in to the science of retrieving memories. "Rememory" tends to miss the point that our subjective experience of a past event may conflict with how others have experienced the same moments from a different perspective. There was a flaw in the premise that memory is an entity that may be synonymous with truth. The film is worth watching for Dinklage's compassionate interpretation of his character Sam Bloom from Pequod Road, a modern Ishmael reconstructing his variation on the memory of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. There was also a clever device with Sam's stick figures which our protagonist assembles to try to get back to the scene of the crime. It was fascinating to watch him track down the strange clients of Gordon Dunn, inventor of the memory machine. But the most interesting strand of the narrative is the trail that leads back to Sam himself and the memories that he repressed. Overall, this was a MEMORABLE film.

I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I sat down to watch "Rememory. But still I opted to watch it because of the movie's cover alone.It turned out that the storyline and plot presented here in "Rememory" was rather interesting and the director and writer Mark Palansky along with writer Mike Vukadinovich did an amazing job at keeping the audience in the dark, guessing and trying to figure out how it is all connected and how it ends. I like those kind of movies, because they challenge the audience instead of just taking us along on a ride.The characters in the movie were nicely detailed and well portrayed as actual everyday people. Needless to say that they had a great ensemble of actors and actresses for the movie.A rather intense and edge-of-the-seat thriller, definitely worth the time and effort to watch.

I really think this movie was good, you did not expect how the story would continue until the end, and the end had a nice twitch. I also think it was a really warm movie and a feel good feeling during the movie. The actors was great and felt believable. Sorry to see Anton Yelchin doing one of his last movie before he past away.

First, I thought that it wouldn't be much to see about this movie, but after I was digging through the story I noticed where it was headed and what it wanted to communicate. Yes, the message of it is simple and straightforward, but the facts that got me fascinated were not only the scenes, but the manner by which they were filmed and how all was put so well together to form something so beautiful. The staff that made this has my appreciation. You created a piece of art.