You can get the gist of this entire film merely by listening to Miss Barbra Streisand's rendition of the song "The Way We Were." The Streisand song lasts three minutes. "Rememory" lasts one-hundred-eleven minutes. Take your pick.The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about the phenomenon of eternal recurrence, which is a fancy way of explaining why the characters in this film can't seem to let go of their memories. There is a list of emotions given at the end of this film that serves as a reference point for eternal recurrence, not of the memories themselves, but of how the past can remain with us and haunt us forever: "regret," "hope," "grief," "anger," "passion," and so on. Those emotions are the residue of memories.This film does a good job in raising some questions about the power of memory. On the other hand, it is gimmicky and tends to promote the view that we are all monsters. With the exception of Mrs. Dunn (Julia Ormond), it was difficult to feel empathy for the various "clients" who had bought in to the science of retrieving memories. "Rememory" tends to miss the point that our subjective experience of a past event may conflict with how others have experienced the same moments from a different perspective. There was a flaw in the premise that memory is an entity that may be synonymous with truth. The film is worth watching for Dinklage's compassionate interpretation of his character Sam Bloom from Pequod Road, a modern Ishmael reconstructing his variation on the memory of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. There was also a clever device with Sam's stick figures which our protagonist assembles to try to get back to the scene of the crime. It was fascinating to watch him track down the strange clients of Gordon Dunn, inventor of the memory machine. But the most interesting strand of the narrative is the trail that leads back to Sam himself and the memories that he repressed. Overall, this was a MEMORABLE film.

I really liked this movie. It was a interesting invention/concept and allowed the question to be asked, how much privacy do you have or want to have. How do we recall things and how those recollections aren't necessarily reality. The acting was great, it was well cast and I didn't didn't think it was slow or dragged on. They needed to really go through the characters to touch on the technology from any angles. I'm not going to say anything else, I think it would ruin the movie if you know much about it.

Man of the moment Peter Dinklage takes main role in this little beauty. I've never been keen on his acting (tortured soul type) - but hey it obviously works. I've been watching him for a long time (check The Station Agent 2003 which is when his career really kicked off) "Space Pants" aside - which is probably the reason for his tortured soul - Rememory is a nice little detective /mystery / Sly-fi (my new term for sci - fi films that aren't that futuristic, you have my permission to use it, the entire new series I'm working on at the moment is Sly-fi.. But I digress..) Finally a film that doesn't concentrate on his size.. although you might still.. He really appears to be spear-heading the small person in a film without prejudice. 7.4/10

I don't know if this is the first time Peter Dinklage leads his own movie, but hopefully it will not be his last, cause he really made this film. He just had me so into what was going on all the way to the big revealed in this murder mystery. In it, Dinklage plays a man who lost his brother in a car accident, and can't remember the last words he said before dying. It messes him up badly, until he discovers a man who invented a machine that can recall and playback your memories and while he attempts to get a hold of this machine, the inventor mysteriously dies and he gets caught up in trying to find out how he died. The movie is a little above average. It was an interesting mystery, mostly because of the cleaver plot device that centers around it (The machine that can record your memories, giving it a bit of a Sci-Fi appeal) but the real reason to see the movie is Dinklage who gives a fine performance to focus on rather than any loop holes you might find.I think this movie took so long to get into theaters because of Anton Yelchin's death. They may have had to do some reediting or reshoots to accommodate his passing. It does not seem to effect the movie any, but who knows how good the film could have been if his passing actually did delay it's release. Plus, he's the other reason I went to see the movie. I also enjoined Julia Ormond in the film, who played the inventor's widow. The parts she shared with Dinklage especially really pop out at you. I did not go into this to see her, but it was an extra added surprise. Definitely something great to watch. A decent murder mystery with a cool plot point made really better with the help of Dinklage, Ormond and Anton Yelchin (RIP).http://cinemagardens.com