Remember Me isn't a great movie. It's another entry in a long line of romantic dramas that exist to boost tissue sales, but in terms of importance to 9/11 on film it's monumental. The film stars Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin play as early-twenty-somethings with depressing pasts who come together and fall in love, but get pushed apart by forces beyond their control (yawn). When it looks like things are going to reach a happy-ever-after crescendo the movie throws a curveball with Pattinson's Tyler killed in the attack on the World Trade Center. This serves as the emotional impetus to resolve the myriad of plot threads, giving a nice balance of remembrance (title nod) and moving on. The reveal that the film is going into 9/11 territory is rather hokey, with a slow zoom out on the Twin Towers being rather manipulative. However, Remember Me remains important in terms of September 11 on film as it was the first time the attacks had played a prominent role in film where they weren't the focus, showing how the tragedy has become part of the fabric of everyday life.
