Do you remember?

I ment to re write this and post it EONS ago, so instead i'll just add to the end.

I wrote previously under the title "Where were you?" about people defining days through others experiences.
What I don't think I conveyed was my frustration with the appropriation of others emotions onto your own life. (I'll explain what I mean by that in a minute) I was saying that it frustrates me when people live their lives in the backseat of society. Some prefer to remember days only in relation to what is on their TV guide or favorite facebook page.

"appropriation"- the taking of something that belongs to or is associated with somebody else, especially without permission.
I lived outside of the USA in high-school. When the World Trade Center was hit by a plane on September 11th 2001, I was not in America to experience the confusion, terror, and other emotions that ran wild because of a massive terrorist attack. (no matter who you think did it or didn't do it, the reaction of the populace was mass terror, therefor it was an act of terrorism)
That didn't stop my class mates from asking me questions like: "Did you know anyone in the towers?" "Are you okay?"
Yes I was shocked. At first I thought it must be a prank like "War of the Worlds" in 1938. Everyone knew that Nothing attacks America. Even though most Hollywood apocalyptic movies are set in America, nothing happens on an epic scale.
I felt numb. I wanted to empathize for the people. I tried to imagine what i would do if i had known someone. But I have never experienced the gut-wrenching feeling of having someones life snuffed out without a warning.
I understand that people's emotions are valid and I empathize. But that doesn't mean that I take a day off work because "baby Diego dies" (Children of Men).


Remember Me.
I watched this movie with my sister, cousin, and a girl friend. We were having a girls movie night and were semi fans of the male lead.
It was a movie I'll watch again. Twice.
It's about loss and love and most important to me, family.
I got a hint of retrospection and insight while discussing the actors acting skills and lack of fashion sense in different scenes and "real life"

I recommend watching it. Netflik it if you can, Redbox it (while it's still out there). Don't watch previews about it, don't anticipate.
Watch it like you would watch something you want to enjoy but are slightly undereducated about. Think about how you can relate to the characters (not the actors). And then suspend your disbelief about the little world that is being created.

Plus the little girl is adorable! Reminds me of a young young young Jena Malone. (Stepmom). Or as my friend said, the twin sister of young Haley Joel Osment (circa A.I.).