Remember Me’s Twist Ending - MAJOR SPOILER

[Sheridan Passell]

In the absence of any time-marking signposts, viewers are led to believe that Remember Me is set in the present — but it’s really 2001. At movie’s end, after having a fight with de Ravin, Robert Pattinson’s character takes an elevator to his father’s 92nd-floor office on a bright September morning, looks out the window, and watches helplessly as American Airlines Flight 11 hits the building. That’s right — Robert Pattinson dies in 9/11.

wtf

[dnwilliams]

I heard about this, seems like they're exploiting the tragedy... :/

[Sheridan Passell]

I haven't seen it. To be fair I can see what they're going for, that nobody knew 9/11 was coming, the movie's marketing makes no mention of it. And it happens at the end of the movie when we truly know the characters whereas victims of a tragedy are nearly always just a number, which has little feeling attached. It's a really interesting concept nonetheless to have the leading character die in real life tragedy at the end of a movie when you had no idea it was coming. I don't think it's ever been done before in cinema.

[twaddington]

The film would have to be REALLY good before it got to that ending to pull it off. From the reviews i've read it isn't and the ending just makes it worse.

[ad4m22]

But WHAT ABOUT BELLA?

[dnwilliams]

Yeah, it could be poignant, but you'd have to make a masterpiece for it to be so, a bad writer would do that to make their story seem epically tragic.

[Sheridan Passell]

Bella's the pilot.

[dalmatianjaws]

Bella's the pilot.

I read this out loud to my friends and we almost died laughing.

Terrorist.