Review of Remember (2015) by Erin D — 27 Oct 2016

Nothing seems to be the way it looks! Your mind moves in one direction and you continue there for a long period! Suddenly and when you less expect you need to change your mind direction to the opposite way! Yet there is a hint half of the way pointing out that something is out of context, but you don't want to believe in the reference... The sign could not be a simple plot error!

"Remember" is a brilliant thriller for the movie fans! It's about revenge, double-crossing, dementia, murder, Alzheimer and Auschwitz.

Two elder friends living on a Jewish retirement home, Zev Guttman (Plummer) the Wolf and Max Rosembaum (Landau, Mr. Mission Impossible) are around their 90:s and both survivors from the Holocaust! Zev just lost his beloved wife Ruth and he is suffering both from dementia and Alzheimer disease. Max on the other hand is paralyzed on his legs and moves on a wheelchair but is nothing wrong with his clear and perfect working mind.

Remember that revenge is a dish best served very cold...

Max a master mind and a former Nazi hunter on the Simon Wiesenthal organization, prepared an exact plan to be assigned and executed by Zev's still working body: to eliminate the cruel Nazi Officer (false named Rudy Kurlander) responsible 70 years ago for the extermination of their family! To increase the complexity of the assignment, there are 4 Germans with the same name living across USA and Canada.

After a traditional Jewish burial ceremony, Max hands over to Zev a secret envelope to be open later. Inside the envelope there is a long letter, USD$1.000 in $100 bills and a blue train ticket. The mysterious letter contains the detailed instructions, literally step by step, how the assignment shall be performed, in order to keep the Alzheimer infected Zev on the right track. Max on his wheelchair remotely provides all logistics needs and new updated instructions! Zev the Wolf, can only depend on himself during the demanding field operations.

Zev plus Max equal one!

The impression that something in the plot was out of the context, calls "procedural memory" or "muscle memory" and is the last type of memory to degrade in dementia, in other words the memory still intact for a longer period of time. This is a relevant part of the plot!

Despite his trembling legs, advanced dementia and fading memory Zev was indeed an intensive and skilled gun master in his Schutzstaffel past, the Nazi elite military unit??

One question: why nobody missed and discovered the dead bodies of John Kurlander (Dean Norris) and his female German shepherd named Eva Braun? A female voice left a message expecting to met him early next morning... and after all Zev left too many traces while visiting the residence of Rudy Kurlander #3...

Max, manipulating Zeb on the remote control, managed to accomplished the mission t0 100%!