Comments on An Unofficial Remember Me Site: Tyler’s Journal in Remember Me: A New Look

I’m not sure how many people have checked out this...

2011-07-07T00:33:00.952-04:00

I’m not sure how many people have checked out this particular article, because I am well aware that interest in this film in general is miniscule right now. However, I felt I had to re-visit the journal because it plays a huge role in the film and I discovered different things about it after doing the initial piece.

Kim, Solas and Rum, thank you all for the feedback; it is always appreciated.
Anonymous/Kim, I hope people are helped in their grief by the film and I know grieving people see things in it others generally don’t. I'm glad you and I connected!

Solas, I love those sayings you share. Having a bit of the soul of someone who has died in the form of their journal is a gift that person has left for us; even if they embellish or play to the unknown audience, we glimpse into their world. And I, too, have thought of Anne Frank, but had not brought her up in a piece because I imagined people would be offended by setting her, a real person, beside Tyler, the imagined one. She brings the face of tragedy to that horror just as Tyler did for his though, and that lesson is important. It shows Will’s rightness in presenting the story that way. But Tyler’s journal, unlike Anne’s, is, as you say, also a way for him to connect to his brother.

Rum, you’ve been really busy with RL I know. Thank you for taking the time to re-connect with the journal here. You were first to post the initial article on your site and so much has gone on since then. Your words mean a lot to me.

And Kat, thanks for the place for me to put my thoughts about Remember Me! You're the best!
♥♥♥♥ to you all.
j

Finaly! I've been able to find a quite moment ...

2011-07-06T15:58:59.280-04:00

Finaly! I've been able to find a quite moment to myself and read it. It's very beautiful jessegirl, and I think I love how concise and crystal clear it is. Everything is here - from every point of view, you have covered every dimension of the diary - psychological, symbolical, etc. It's a brilliant piece. It should become a reference for those who are intrigued by Tyler's diary, because as a rule everyone is struck by it, but of course not everyone takes the time to reflect about it the way you do and find out its meanings. Thanks for sharing this beautiful piece!

The other aspects of journaling, as you point out ...

2011-06-26T10:07:33.579-04:00

The other aspects of journaling, as you point out on Tyler's case, go the other way, at least in his writing to his brother: connection and communication. In writing, a journaler forges the connection, like planting an umbilical cord to another life, or perhaps like having the call go through on a telephone. ANd once that connection is established, it is the communication of the survivor working out what he needs, talking to his loved one across the divide. In a way, the leaving of stones on the gravemarker is another expression of this.

Perhaps because of previous family info I have pos...

2011-06-26T09:58:27.421-04:00

Perhaps because of previous family info I have posted here, perhaps having read and reread Anne Frank's diary since I was a little girl, I have always thought of journals and diaries as soul messages across the divides of time, place, and planes (earthly plane of physical life and spiritual plane of the life of the soul out of the body). Journalers put a bit of their soul into what they write, and that bit of soul stays within the pages, and talks to the readers, even when the writer is no longer amongst the living, at least on the same plane. When I saw that journal among the ashes at the end of Remember Me, I immediately thought of Anne Frank, but also of thousands of Tylers that day whose words I hope are left to reach and touch those of us still in the physical plane, and also of millions over time whose thoughts, feelings, observations, would otherwise be lost to us. There is a teaching among my people (I know, I am always giving you these teachings, but i am not a missionary; the teachings are in my heart and mind and soul and what I read and experience are stimuli that draw up the teachings): Whoever destroys a life destroys a world; whoever saves a life saves a world. At least, if we have a journal or diary of a lost life, we have a bit of that soul and life in our world still.

Oh jessiegirl....so very good. Michael gave in to ...

2011-06-25T16:22:46.302-04:00

Oh jessiegirl....so very good. Michael gave in to his Dad and Tyler did not want him to bail him out. Sounds like a cause and effect. We really are affected by other people in our lives or those we let affect us, good or bad. The journal is made so clear by you and yet in the movie I did not see it as so important, just a tool, maybe one of those inferred, there but not spoken, felt rather than seen. If only more people could hear or see your words, they could understand some of their own grief and release it. You are beautiful, great reflection./kim