- Content: “Romance Over Development”
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What You Need To Know:
REMINDERS OF HIM has a unique storyline, with some good performances, but it fails to execute the story well enough to hit its emotional beats. The movie spends more time with romance than actual character development. Also, the final resolution arrives too easily and needs more drama. The movie stresses hope and compassion. Also, the female lead appears hopeful, persistent and selfless. However, REMINDERS OF HIM contains a fair amount of foul language, and some lewd content and marijuana use. So, it’s unsuitable for younger audiences and warrants extreme caution.
Content:
Two characters suffer a car accident together, one character punches another multiple times in the face, an examination room shows dead body;
One scene implies fornication between an unmarried man and woman in one scene plus scenes show them kissing passionately, woman has a baby in prison before that with the man’s best friend, who dies in a traffic accident;
Some upper male nudity, two instances of upper back female nudity, rear male nudity when couple goes skinny dipping, and female character in prison shown wearing a bra with wet spots due to excess lactation;
Much of the movie takes place in a bar, so alcohol appears often, plus two characters share a beer, but no drunkenness occurs;
No tobacco use, but two characters smoke marijuana out of bong an eat edible cannabis gummies;
Some characters lie and a woman removes memorial cross from the side of the road because the man who died there hated memorials.
More Detail:
When Kenna finishes her sentence earlier than expected, she returns to the town where it all happened to restart her life and meet Deim. However, the grandparents refuse to allow it.
At first, Scotty’s best friend, Ledger, sides with them, not actually having met Kenna before Scotty’s death. However, when he gets to know Kenna, he realizes she isn’t who everyone thought she was, and she tells a different story on what took place that night of the car accident. Their relationship slowly shifts from misunderstanding to attraction. How will Kenna navigate trying to meet her daughter and falling in love with her dead boyfriend’s best friend at the same time?
Sadly, REMINDERS OF HIM fails to give viewers a satisfying answer. While the movie offers an interesting premise, it does not execute the story well enough to hit the emotional beats.
Also, the resolution between Kenna and Scotty’s parents feels effortless. The audience is never shown the parents taking full responsibility for their unjust treatment against Kenna. It’s understandable that the parents grieved their son’s death and sought someone to blame, but to allow the person their son loved to go to prison, never hearing her side of the story, and forbidding Kenna to meet her daughter remains extremely wrong.
The majority of the story focuses on romance rather than the narrative, stealing much needed time for characters to be fully fleshed out. The actors are extremely talented and gave a great performance. Sadly, the cast, great sets, and amazing cinematography couldn’t cover up the movie’s average writing.
REMINDERS OF HIM exhibits biblical values of hope and compassion. For example, Kenna hears from Ivy, a fellow prisoner and the only time we see Kenna in prison, to not give up hope of seeing her daughter. “You can either live in sadness, or die in it,” she tells her.
Throughout the whole movie, Kenna remains hopeful, persistent and selfless. These qualities match biblical teachings and characters. However, profanity, language, violence, sexual content, and alcohol and drug abuse make it unsuitable for younger audiences.
