Line #34 YMMV/RememberMe


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4	* {{Anvilicious}}: The terrible nature of bullying is shown in detail far after the point has been made. Caroline is tormented by girls every time she's in a class and the school does nothing each time. Even when the girls do something really nasty, the school does not punish them at all -- [[LoopholeAbuse because it didn't happen on school property]]. It takes Tyler scaring the living daylights out of one of the ringleaders and Charles threatening legal action for something to be done. A very powerful point about how a) schools ''need'' to take bullying seriously and b) bullying is not the victim's fault. There seems to be some measure of this in-universe, too, as Tyler's revenge on the bullies is hardly subtle.
5	* BrokenBase: The twist ending divides viewers down the middle. Some had a {{Glurge}} reaction -- finding it offensive and exploitative. Others felt that the twist was handled in a classy way and captured [[spoiler:the shock and tragedy of 9/11]].
6	-->'''massawyrm of Ain't It Cool News:''' Why was it titled ''Remember Me''? Because [[spoiler:NEVER FORGET]] would've been too obvious.
7	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Aidan and Caroline seem to be the characters well liked by viewers. Even people who didn't like the movie praised Ruby Jerins's performance.
8	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Naturally with this being the first film Robert Pattinson did after ''Twilight'', he got a few reactions like this.
9	* ItWasHisSled: The twist ending, in which [[spoiler:Tyler gets KilledOffscreen due to working at the World Trade Center on the day that the planes hit the towers]], became the most well-known thing about the film after said twist became mired in controversy and openly discussed in reviews. Years later, the film is pretty much known for being "Creator/RobertPattinson's [[spoiler:9/11 movie]]" even though the only thing to do with [[spoiler:the terrorist attack]] happens at the very end of the film.
10	* JerkassWoobie:
11	** Charles. His oldest son committed suicide and his other son is always off the deep end, putting a big strain on the family. It's never revealed why he and his wife got divorced, but that's even more baggage for him.
12	** Neil, too. He's clearly broken by his wife's death, and his relationship with his daughter isn't great. Though the scene where he hits her could divide viewers on how sympathetic he is.
13	%%* {{Moe}}: Caroline.
14	* MemeticMutation: The film's ending has naturally lent itself to [[BlackComedy dark humor]] about [[spoiler:the September 11th terrorist attacks]].
15	* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:The twist ending. It can come across like a cheap attempt to win audience sympathy.]]
16	* NarmCharm: Defenders of the twist take the attitude that while it's jarring and a little forced, the suddenness and lack of foreshadowing add to its impact for younger audience. Younger fans have claimed that this film helped them understand the [[spoiler:true tragedy of 9/11. By having a character the audience has spent the last 90 minutes getting to know abruptly killed in the attacks, it places the audience in their perspective. The real attacks, like most sudden and violent events, also came out of nowhere, and countless people suffered or died, the only difference being that such a sudden twist is sometimes seen as bad storytelling.]]
17	* OvershadowedByControversy: Chances are if you've heard of this movie, it's because of the uproar over using [[spoiler: the 9/11 attacks]] for the ending.
18	* TearJerker:
19	** Caroline's fate. She's bullied at school for being a ShrinkingViolet and having an interest in art (as well as clearly being a very intelligent young girl). She clearly has self-esteem issues from her brother's suicide and her father being distant. What takes the cake is that her family thinks she just needs to socialise more and they force her into it -- and it sadly does not end well for her.
20	** What makes the TraumaticHaircut especially sad is that it clearly happened while she was sleeping (since she's calling Tyler in the morning) -- meaning she woke up to find her hair like that. Also imagine the poor girl waiting at the house for Tyler to pick her up, possibly afraid she'll somehow be blamed for it. Twisting the knife even further is the fact that only half of her hair was cut off -- meaning she had to go to a hairdresser and get the rest cut off, too.
21	** The fate of Allie's mother, as noted under FridgeHorror. The poor woman was mugged and she didn't put up a single fight: she handed over the purse straight away and simply wanted to get her daughter to safety. And she still got shot for it. What's more is that it was an empty subway at night; this begs the question of what Allie had to do next. Did she have to wait there with her mother's body for hours until the police got there? Or did she run screaming into the street for help? Either scenario is terrifying for a child to go through.
22	** The montage showing everyone's reactions to [[spoiler:the World Trade Center attack]]. Diane walks outside for an innocuous reason, then notices all the people running through the streets. Charles gets out of his car, barely able to register what's going on. Allie and Aidan watch from the roof, Allie looking nothing short of horrified. Caroline is leaving school, surrounded by parents frantically picking up their kids -- looking around to see if anyone has come for her. In-universe FridgeHorror for her, too: she ''knows'' where her dad's office is and that Tyler was going there.
23	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Diane, Tyler's mother, gets little to no characterisation. We never find out the reason she and her husband got divorced, and she barely factors into any of the plot points.
24	* TheWoobie:
25	** Dear God, Caroline. Her oldest brother committed suicide, her parents are divorced, her father is barely around, she's bullied at school and doesn't appear to have any friends. Then let's not get started on the ending.
26	** Allie, too, considering her mother was murdered '''in front of her''' when she was eleven years old and her father is borderline abusive in some cases.
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30	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was the pre-brainwashing Nilin a sincere believer in the Errorist cause? Or did she join it for the thrill and the sensation of power (given her ability to alter memories and personalities of people) it'd give her (at least until she pushed a man to suicide)?
31	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Has its own [[AwesomeMusic/RememberMe page]].
32	* CompleteMonster:
33	** [[MadDoctor Dr. Sebastian Quaid]] is a chief [[MadScientist scientist]] at La Bastille prison, who regularly engages in torturing countless prisoners and using them as test subjects of his experiments, which causes many of them to either die or mutate into feral Leapers. Taking the most active role in the Reconversion Project, Quaid [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented]] on thousands of Leapers to turn them into obedient slaves, as well as specifically draining the minds of prisoners to turn them into Leapers and repeat the process and turn them into slaves as well. Defying the orders of Scylla Cartier-Wells to stop the Reconversion Project, Quaid openly desires to destroy the "individuality" of the city and use the newly created army of mind-broken Leapers for his own purposes.
34	** [[WardensAreEvil Madame Astrid Voorhees]] is the head of [[HellholePrison La Bastille prison]], which she keeps as a harsh, brutal hellhole, where Dr. Sebastian Quaid experiments on countless prisoners and the guards freely abuse them, causing many to die or be turned into feral Leapers. Regularly engaging in torturing prisoners for fun, Madame also took the memories of all prisoners to keep them docile, which left many of them in [[AndIMustScream a state of constant pain and suffering]]. When [[PlayerCharacter Nilin]] breaks into La Bastille prison, Madame activates the Brain Drainer in an effort to destroy her, not caring that the machine would destroy the minds of any prisoner caught in its sight.
35	* DesignatedHero: Nilin is the protagonist of the game, gifted with the ability to take and alter others' memories. [[spoiler:She uses those powers in a flashback sequence to drive a man to suicide, and in the present to help a terrorist cell cause a flood in a major city that injures and kills hundreds. This causes her to question her motives and actions on several occasions afterward, but not actually change her behavior.]] This is not to say that the antagonists are any better; they range from cartoonishly evil to merely bitter, amoral, and wealthy.
36	* GeniusBonus: In Olga Sedova's memory, Doctor Quaid mentions "tachycardia", which is the medical term for an abnormally fast heartbeat.
37	* MagnificentBastard: Johnny Greenteeth is the leader of the Leapers and the only one among them, who managed to retain at least part of his mind, after mutation. Formerly known as Dr. John Green, who got betrayed and experimented on by Dr. Sebastian Quaid, Johnny Greenteeth remained hidden for many years in a Leaper infested tunnels, forming a bond with them and keeping his identity a secret, until Nilin found him and seemengly defeated him. After the Memorize Corporation started the Reconversion Project, allowing Dr. Quaid to experiment and brainwash Leapers into being slaves, Johnny got furious and used Nilin to get inside Quaid's laboratory, remaining hidden the entire time, until he tricked Quaid to come right to him and then killed him. Deciding to destroy the laboratory and the entire prison complex to "burn away all horrible memories", Johnny activated the self-destruct sequence and then tries to kill Nilin, almost succeeding, failing only due to Bad Request distracting him.
38	* {{Narm}}: The lines in the previews are played very over the top and melodramatic. The PurpleProse doesn't help.
39	** ''Everything'' Captain Trace says. Playing the game in French gets rid of most of the {{narm}}, but not in his case.
40	** Speaking of Trace, Nilin's one-liner to him: "This Little Red Riding Hood's got a basket full of kickass!" Heck, the whole sequence leading up to that is full of it. None of it makes any sense and only serves the purpose of looking silly.
41	* ParanoiaFuel: The ''entire premise''. Memories are what make us who we are, and there are people who can and ''will'' delete, implant, and outright warp your memories as they see fit. The worst part is that you will ''never know the difference''. Are your allies really your allies? Are your enemies really your enemies? Is your boyfriend ''really'' your boyfriend, or is he a "mixer" who didn't take it well when you turned him down? Is your best friend ''really'' your best friend, or is she a stranger who decided she needed something from you? ...Are ''you'' really who you think you are?
42	* SoOkayItsAverage: The most popular view on the game. It's got a solid aesthetic, ambitious narrative and gameplay concepts around altering memories, and serviceable combat, but it's also been criticized for [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot not going far enough as their rich potential would suggest]].
43	* SpiritualLicensee: If Creator/LucBesson made a game, this would be it. A) It features a [[WaifFu petite]] [[ActionGirl butt-kicking female protagonist]] who uses tons of SheFu. B) It has a strong French influence, since it takes place in, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Paris]] and the creators of the game are French. C) It takes place in a distinct science fiction setting with rich visuals and hammy writing which evokes the "cinema du look" style of Besson and other French films of the TheEighties.
44	* TearJerker:
45	** The memory remix with Charles. [[spoiler:By this point the player knows he's Nilin's father. She makes him think he killed his own daughter in the process of remixing her memory of a tragic car accident.]] You can just see the despair Charles is feeling as things go horribly wrong on two different levels in his own mind.
46	** Charles isn't the only painful sight in that remix. [[spoiler:Watching the young Nilin convulse and die from the memory bug is not a happy image either.]]
47	** Bad Request takes many risks to help Nilin, but eventually they catch up with him. [[spoiler:He ends up arrested and brainwashed in the Bastille. You spend an entire chapter trying to save him and nearly succeed, but then he dies saving Nilin from Johnny Greenteeth.]]
48	* ThatOneBoss: The Mourner Leapers. They teleport away when you get near them and summon hordes of aggressive Prowler and Reconversion Leapers. While you fight the mooks to build up Focus for your [[StatusEffects stunning attack]], the Mourner teleports behind you and takes a whack at you, disrupting your combos. When you land the stun, the Reconversion Leapers are immune so you have to evade them while pummeling the Mourners, which are too tall for your dodge move to work. All in all, there is almost no player action in this fight that isn't made more difficult by an enemy reaction.
49	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Olga Sedova. A badass bounty hunter chick who would've killed Nilin in the first 30 minutes of the game had she not been remixed into becoming an ally. After that she shows up only twice just to give Nilin a ride to her destination. The consequences of the remix could've created an interesting conflict later on by having Olga discover the truth about her changed memories and lead to a boss fight. Also, the ramifications of Olga becoming an ally to Nilin aren't explored: [[spoiler:Olga becomes a terrorist, attacks a hospital, and likely abandons or unwittingly kills the husband she's convinced is already dead.]]
50	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The game doesn't really explore the effects of memory alteration technology on society in much detail. We see the odd unresponsive junkie hanging around, but because Nilin never interacts with a civilian (just villains and fellow errorists) we don't see in detail how normal people are abusing the ability to erase bad memories or share good ones (are they acting recklessly and erasing to avoid the repercussions? Losing motivation to achieve or experience when they can just get good experiences from others?).
51	** Likewise, remixing memories is very questionable and poses all sorts of moral dilemmas (since it basically violates the target's free will) yet this is not fully explored (Nilin does, but no one else, and she doesn't bring it up again after). Remixes are just used to advance the plot and have only positive effects for Nilin, and we don't see the traumatic effects of forced personality changes on the victims or natural disconnects that the changed memories would have with later ones.
52	** There aren't even that many remixes -- the game is content to just four total remixes, one of which is a flashback of Nilin's past, and one involves a repeat of an event we already see in a previous remix! A stronger focus on these might have explored Nilin's memory hunter status. For that matter, stealing memories is as easy as having Nilin get close enough to suck a little static out of their heads; we never get any flashbacks or whatever to ''see'' the memories for ourselves. (The "Remembranes" where we see a ghost of the person re-enacting walking down a hallway just isn't the same...)
53	* UnderusedGameMechanic: The game has only a few memory-altering minigames, which is particularly egregious in that these puzzles were a major selling point for the game during the pre-release promotion.
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