Film Synopsis: Remember Me

The next task that I need to complete is to write a film synopsis for an already released film of my own films genre so that I can see how much detail is needed for me to write my own film synopsis for the film that I am planning. The film that I have chosen from the Romantic Drama genre is Remember Me, a relatively new film which has an interesting narrative that I am going to synopsise as oart of my planning.

The film begins with 11 year old Ally Craig witnessing her mother’s death on a New York subway platform. The film then jumps to ten years later, where Ally is studying at New York University and lives at home with her overprotective detective father Neil. We then meet Tyler Hawkins a 21 year old, who has no ambition or direction in life, and is auditing classes at New York University and working in a bookstore. He lives with his best friend Aiden. Tyler has a strained relationship with his father Charles since his brother Michael’s suicide. He is very close to his younger sister Caroline.

After a night out, Tyler and Aiden get in trouble with Neil, after intervening in a fight that started between a group of strangers. Not long after Aiden sees Neil dropping Ally off at university and persuades Tyler that he should extract his revenge on Neil by going out with Ally and then dumping her. Tyler agrees, and asks Ally out on a date to which she eventually accepts.

Tyler and Ally spend a lot of time together, discovering about each others losses and begin to fall in love. Ally then gets into a fight with her father after she spends the whole night at Tyler’s flat which ends with Neil hitting Ally. Ally moves in with Tyler and Aiden.

 Neil desperately tries to contact Ally to no prevail until one of his detective colleagues recognises Ally on a train when her, Tyler and Aiden are on their way back from a beach holiday with Tyler’s family. Neil breaks into Tyler’s apartment to confront him and Tyler ends up confessing to Neil about his original intentions towards Ally. Tyler then confesses everything to Ally, who walks out and moves back into her father’s home. Tyler and Ally remain apart, until Aiden visits Ally at home and tells her that he was the one who planted the idea of using her in Tyler’s head and that Tyler does actually love her. Tyler and Ally are then seen reunited, walking through the park with Tyler’s younger sister Caroline. Later Caroline goes to a birthday party where she is bullied and her hair is cut off by the other girls at the party. Tyler goes to Caroline’s school, where after witnessing the girls taunting her gets angry and ends up in prison again.

Tyler is bailed out of jail by Charles who asks Tyler to visit him the next morning at his office. Tyler goes to his father’s office where Charles phones him to tell him that he is taking Caroline to school and that he will meet Tyler there. In Charles’s office Tyler is shocked to see his father’s screensaver to be pictures of him, Caroline and Michael when they were younger.

We then see Caroline in class where the teacher writes the date on the board, as 11^th September 2001. Tyler is then shown looking out of the window at New York from his father’s office which is located in the World Trade Centre. The 9/11 attacks take place and we see the aftermath with screaming and burning buildings. We see the area where the World Trade Centre was and we are aware that Tyler died in the attack and all that is left is his journal in the rubble.

The film then skips to sometime in the near future where we see that Charles and Caroline have a healthy father and daughter relationship. Aiden has a tattoo saying Tyler on his neck and is working hard at school and Ally takes the subway for the first time since her mother’s death.

I learnt from this piece of work, that film synopsis's need to be detailed and cover the whole of the films narrative, in whatever order the narrative plays in. By writing this synopsis for a film I already knew I learnt how well I needed to know the narrative of my film and how I should structure my synopsis. This piece of work acted as a stepping stone in the process of writing my own synopsis and really helped me with the process of writing my own.