Pablo O. Scholz
08/19/2021 7:00
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Traveling through memory has its benefits, but also its flaws.
If you don't believe it, ask Nick Bannister,
Hugh Jackman's
character
in this dystopian film noir in which Miami looks like Venice.
Climate change and wars have caused many surfaces around the world, we will find out, have been submerged.
A certain area of Miami remains afloat, because there are gates that hold the water.
But if there are few things more cinematic than seeing glass that shatter and seeing the wet floor, well, the production of
Reminiscence
has put a lot of effort in the second more than in the first.
Nick is an ex-soldier who in these times near the apocalypse runs a business in which he gives his clients something they already had, but want to revive.
Hugh Jackman is an ex-soldier who has a machine in which, whoever immerses himself, can recover memories.
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He installs them, one by one, in a tank, and there, floating and unconscious, they relive some moment of their past life that is obviously much more pleasant than the ones they are living.
Remember me
No danger of drowning, and remember what almost appears like
Minority Report
, by
Steven Spielberg
, but without much suspense and adrenaline.
Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson had already acted together in "The Great Showman."
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But since we said that it is a noir, the ex-soldier will be bitten by the love bug when the one who enters his business is Mae (the Swedish
Rebecca Ferguson
, from the last
Mission: Impossible
).
And no, it's not that Nick / Hugh Jackman sees a familiar face because they worked together on another movie,
The Great Showman
.
Nick falls madly in love with this singer in a shocking red dress.
Like Nick and his assistant, Watts (another veteran, played by Thandiwe Newton), they archive these memories of their clients, if they want they can see them on a huge screen.
Nick has become obsessed with Mae, who had arrived simply because she wanted to remember where she had lost the keys.
Go.
Nick is obsessed with Mae, in the film of the creator of the series "Westworld", Lisa Joy.
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Lisa Joy (
Westworld's
co-showrunner
) imposes a nostalgic bias on the film, but what prevails, in addition to the romance, is the criminal history behind the relationship between Mae and Nick.
The film gets messy on its own, it is true, and Nick is a sort of lonely soldier -with the extra help of someone, it will be seen- to discover why Mae disappeared from one moment to another, what he hides, why he fled, and more .
Miami is almost under water in the not too distant future.
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And yes, because there is so much more to the Reminiscence plot, perhaps too much for a single movie.
There are dialogues that, when the projection is averaging, make you look up.
Not because of the syrupy, but because they seem like cliches that lend themselves to a story that was well structured.
With surprises, yes, and twists and turns, but this
Blade Runner
on the East Coast instead of Los Angeles starts to drip ahead of time.
Thandiwe Newton is the right hand man of Hugh Jackman's character.
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Luckily there are Jackman, Ferguson and Newton, plus Cliff Curtis (who had been with Rebecca in
Doctor Sleep
), so that, with their performances, they bring to fruition this film noir that looks barbaric, but does not leave much.
"Reminiscence"
Good
Thriller / Science fiction.
USA, 2021.
Original title
: “Reminiscence”.
116 ', SAM 13 R.
From:
Lisa Joy.
With:
Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton.
In:
Hoyts Abasto, Cinépolis Recoleta, Showcase Belgrano.
Look also
Ryan Reynolds, pure comedian in Hard to Care 2
The Officer and the Spy and the I Accused by Roman Polanski
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