Remember Me a.k.a. Hello Monster

Remember Me.

Rating 4.5 Stars

Cautionary notes: Physical violence, human remains related to police work. Overall, not bad considering content. PG 13.

Chemistry and Romance: 5 stars! Sweet and clean. 

Black Hats Worn In Drama: Three

I will always remember...Remember Me.

It’s the theme, the reason, the why, the how.

It’s subtle but sweet, painful, but perfect.

Very, very perfect.

The cast, the story, the script, the plot twists that leave you gasping and in mental agony and trying to catch your breath.

Hyun, a brilliant criminal minds specialist and professor, is called back to Korea by a mysterious e-mail of a crime scene. The story quickly progressed as Hyun (a.k.a. David Lee), assisting a special group of police officers clamping down on criminals.While tracing his own Korean roots, that he had left behind several years earlier. Memories that were frozen, forgotten, and trapped...are slowly melted like time capsules, recalled and released. Freeing Hyun to be even more of an amazing person, and more himself; as he solves the riddles around his childhood, his father’s death, and little brother’s disappearance.

Cha Ji An, an earnest police detective, whose life has been affected by the same serial killer that took away Hyun Lee’s father and brother. Finds herself working with the man, she’s followed most of her life. Instinct telling her if she follows Hyun, she’ll find the man responsible for her father’s disappearance—and be able to redeem her father’s reputation, removing the badge of shame associated with her own. Ji An was delightfully human, strong and yet needing rescue, fearful but courageous, imperfect and perfectly loveable.

Min. Ah, Min. Where does one begin?

Strangely, he was the one character, I found myself relating to, loving, and won his way into a cherished characters place, in my heart. His story, his humanity, and struggle were palpable, and I wanted to reach out, hold his hand, be his friend, and tell him to hold on, be strong.

"Three Points"

Team Leader

The Special Police Task Force was delightful.

Team Leader, earned my love and respect—even with his long speeches.

“Three Points”, and the rest of the team, especially the junior officer; love and justice are the same for him.

I am not fond of moralizing stories, or tacking on a zillion scripture verses and hidden meanings where things are often very plain and can speak for themselves. So often people twist words and poke them at others when they do this. However, as I watched Remember Me, it spoke truth to me in a way only a handful of movies can claim.

As it played its last few moments on my screen, I found myself feeling that 16 episodes were really too short as I tried to catch my breath and grasp that it really was ending. The beautiful theme of salvation that ran through this story, with a vein of brotherly love. How love, can open hearts that looked so closed. It showed the power of the lies that we believe, there were parts in the show I wanted to scream to Min not to believe the things in his head, to take his hand and say hold on, be brave, the end isn’t like this, and it seemed as if black holes might swallow them all.

For Min, it was an uphill battle, the struggles the lies, the desires and cravings he had in his heart to be known for who he was, to not be forgotten, and the choice he makes at the very end.

To face the world.

As he is.

To be remembered.

As Min.