Remem­ber Me is a bril­liant screen­play writ­ten by Will Fet­ters. Many can over­see the under­ly­ing lessons of Remem­ber Me and chalk it down to being a dra­matic romance, how­ever they will have failed to see the true mean­ing of Remem­ber Me. Remem­ber Me is a story about peo­ple like you and I. It’s a story about grief, and how every­one deals with it dif­fer­ently. Robert Pat­tin­son plays Tyler, the wounded col­lege stu­dent who’s fight­ing to come to terms with his brother’s death. This is Rob’s best per­for­mance yet. In Remem­ber me he proves that he’s so much more than Edward Cullen. Pierce Bros­nan, plays Charles Hawkins, the father who buries him­self in work to for­get the death of his first son. Ruby Jerins shines in the role of the artis­tic, often mis­un­der­stood, youngest daugh­ter of a fam­ily try­ing to cope with a tragedy that has befallen them. The Hawkins fam­ily truly rep­re­sents  how death can affect peo­ple in so many dif­fer­ent ways and have a big impact on actions years down the line.

Rebelling Tyler works in a book­store, is a free stu­dent and lives with Aidan (Tate Elling­ton). Aidan is the much needed com­i­cal relief in Tyler’s life. Behind his funny guy facade Aidan cares deeply for Tyler and tries in his own way to help Tyler get through this rough moment in his life.

Boy meets girl, Tyler meets Ally who also has her own share of grief to deal with. Ally while cop­ing with her own grief tries to deal with her father’s grief. Neil Craig (Chris Cooper) is another per­fect exam­ple of how peo­ple deal with grief dif­fer­ently. Tyler and Ally’s rela­tion­ship devel­ops and their shared grief makes Tyler real­ize that he is not alone, bring­ing them closer together. The chem­istry between Tyler and Ally is great.

The entire cast of Remem­ber Me did an amaz­ing job in por­tray­ing the lives of these dys­func­tional fam­i­lies. Tyler’s rela­tion­ship with his younger sis­ter is so touch­ing and sweet.

The end­ing packs a pow­er­ful punch that will leave you reel­ing and speech­less. Only then will you truly under­stand the mean­ing of Remem­ber and what this movie has to teach you.

Remem­ber Me teaches us  a pow­er­ful les­son, one we should all live by, but so often for­get : “Live in the Moment”.