Remember Me (film): Difference between revisions

 

The film is mostly remembered for its controversial ending which some found offensive but many people have spoken up in favor of it, saying it was handled in a very classy way. And to those who feel it was tacked on, the event itself actually inspired the film.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Allie's father Neil seems like a sensible enough man but don't you dare mention his wife. And in Tyler's case, don't ever harm Caroline.

* [[Book Ends]]: The film opens and ends with Allie in the subway.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Aidan brags about having slept with a girl of every ethnicity. Allie asks about an eskimo and he responds that there is a certain girl who works at the library. The focus then switches to Tyler arriving home to find {{spoiler|Allie's father waiting for him}}. After that big scene is over, Allie arrives home saying she'd just been at the library speaking with the girl in question.

* [[Call Back]]: At the very end of the film {{spoiler|Allie rides on the subway for the first time since her mother's murder, to show she's moving on}}.

* [[Cerebus Callback]]: Inverted. Early on in the movie Tyler is bailed out of jail by his father in a sombre scene. The second time it happens, much later in the story, it's a humorous scene with Charles and Tyler laughing about it.

* [[Girl Posse]]: Eleven-year-old versions of them.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: The girls who bully Caroline aren't punished because the incident didn't happen on school property. So Tyler steps in. Half of it happens off-screen but the girls who bullied Caroline get their just desserts from Tyler and Charles. Tyler grabs one of the girl's desks off the floor, flings it at the wall and then throws it back in front of her before throwing a fire extinguisher through the classroom door. It's then revealed that Charles has pulled some strings so that the school can't press charges against Tyler or else he'll do the same for what happened to Caroline. And he's also threatened to sue all of the girls' parents unless they all immediately transfer to other schools.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Caroline, with her hair cut off, has to be brought into school by Tyler because she's so shaken. One of the other girls sarcastically remarks "I like your hair".

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Allie is a more realistic version of the trope, while displaying a few of the characteristics such as eating desert at the start of a meal just in case she dies before she gets to have it, she has issues of her own with her father. And in a variation of the typical plot, Tyler actually seeks her out first.

* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Caroline goes to a slumber party with girls from school and the next time we see her a huge chunk of her hair has been cut off.

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: A viewer can easily see the twist coming by just simply doing the math in the time skip.

* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Even though the little girls traumatized Caroline, Tyler doesn't physically hit them -- he just settles for scaring them shitless instead.

 

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