Remember Me (2022)

Un série "Tranche de vie" plus qu'un BL.

J'ai commencé cette série en me disant : "chouette, une série de 10 épisodes de 45min, ça va permettre de bien développer l'histoire et d'en profiter un bon moment".
Maintenant que je l'ai finie, je suis partagé.

OUI, le scénario global est développé. Il prend le temps de créer un univers complet avec plusieurs personnages principaux, mais aussi leurs familles. On va pouvoir les suivre de l'enfance à l'âge adulte, au travers de moments importants.

NON, car on passe justement d'un moment important à un autre sans transition. A un moment, je me suis retrouvé perdu dans mes sentiments pour cette série. Je n'avais plus l'impression de vivre une histoire, mais de lire un rapport relatant les moments clé de la vie d'une personne comme sur un calendrier.
(on passe d'une scène où l'un avoue ses sentiments et l'autre accepte de sortir avec lui, à une scène marquée "4ans plus tard". Résultat, on ne vit pas leur relation, on nous l'explique juste)

Le fait qu'il y ai plusieurs personnage à développer, réduit le temps attribué à chacun. Le global m'a beaucoup plu, mais je n'ai pas trouvé ce que j'espérais dans ce visionnage.
On est plus en présence d'une série "tranche de vie" que d'un BL.
Vous passerez un bon moment à découvrir le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte des protagoniste à travers les difficultés amoureuses, familiales, médicales, les traumatismes et peurs personnelles.

Le scénario reste riche en proposition diverses mais m'a perdu en court de route à cause de certaines longueurs et un manque de développement des relations amoureuses.

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A life drama full of great messages, but a romance it is not

The first and foremost thing viewers need to know when coming into this drama is that this is not a romance drama. It is a life drama with a few romance plots. It's slow. It's meandering. It's chock full of time skips. There's not a lot of focus on developing romance or chemistry.

As a life drama, it's about our many main characters finding their way through life. From elementary to high school to university to working life. On their relationships between each other, their romantic partners, and their family. And how their respective character flaws need to be overtaken before they can get what they want. As viewer, we are taken on a ride to see how they come to terms with a change in future plans, grief, insecurities, trauma, distance from loved ones, and more.

We get to feel the nostalgia of watching how people communicate/d through the passage of time. How certain technologies made it easier, but were still subject to the same difficulties because of the people using them. But through it all, we were able to see a friendship that lasted through multiple decades, even as the people within it changed. And we got to take a look at several different family dynamics, and how they are still family regardless.

I loved this drama. It had a nostalgic and comfortable atmosphere that I enjoyed sitting in with each episode. I also enjoyed seeing how our mains grew as individuals and all possessed some trouble or another that I could relate to. There wasn't much focus on relationships, but I think that's okay. Because it wasn't the direction this drama was trying to take.

If you're coming in expecting your typical BL, you'll be sorely disappointed. The Life/Slice-of-life genre is not for everyone. So if that genre is not for you, I highly recommend skipping. Because it is actually a good story. But it's a good life story, not a romance.

However, I do wonder if the drama might have been too ambitious with the amount of main characters it was tackling. All of their stories were told completely, but I didn't get to emotionally connect with them as I usually would have liked, despite their performances being pretty solid. In my experience, most life dramas with such a big array of characters will choose an episodic format, which helps establish to viewers that they aren't meant to emotionally connect with the character too much. But by putting all of their storylines together into the same episodes, it made me feel like I was expected to connect deeper than what I actually did. Nonetheless though, it is a quality that is common with life dramas, so I can't really hold it against this production in particular too much.

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