🧠 Step into the futuristic world of Reminiscence (2021) — a neo-noir sci-fi thriller that dives deep into memory, love, and obsession. Directed by Lisa Joy, the co-creator of Westworld, this visually stunning film stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, and Thandiwe Newton.
💔 Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) runs a business that helps people relive their most precious memories through advanced technology. But when a mysterious woman named Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) disappears, Nick becomes obsessed with finding her — even if it means losing himself in the past.
🌆 Set in a post-climate disaster Miami, half-submerged underwater, Reminiscence explores how memories shape who we are and what we’re willing to risk for love.
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💫 Subheading: Full Cast & Crew:
Hugh Jackman as Nick Bannister
Rebecca Ferguson as Mae
Thandiwe Newton as Watts
Cliff Curtis as Cyrus Boothe
Natalie Martinez as Avery Castillo
Marina de Tavira as Tamara Sylvan
Daniel Wu as Saint Joe
Directed by Lisa Joy
🎥 Plot Summary:
In a drowned future Miami, private investigator Nick Bannister helps clients access lost memories through a machine that immerses them in their past. When Mae, a beautiful singer, comes into his life and mysteriously vanishes, Nick’s search for her uncovers dark secrets, crime, and deception that blur the line between memory and reality.
💭 As Nick delves deeper, he realizes that love can be as haunting as the memories we refuse to forget.
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00:00This story begins with a business owner whose name is Bannister.
00:03We are in Near Future, where people work at night instead of the day due to global warming.
00:08Nick owns a machine in which you can relive all your past memories,
00:11so basically people would come and Nick would help them or direct them in the past memory that they want to recall.
00:17This time he was helping a military veteran who lost his legs and a dog long time ago.
00:22He also had an assistant called Emily Watts, Nick calls her Watts.
00:25He explains the past is addictive, especially the memories with loved ones.
00:30Many people comes to Nick's shop and relive the same moment back to back.
00:33Even Watts was tired of seeing some people at times, but nothing she can do.
00:37One day, a woman walks by who looked utterly gorgeous with a bright red lipstick.
00:42She was looking for a key that she had lost.
00:44Nick looked really interested into this specific woman for some reason and help her out.
00:49She was acting very bold in front of him anyways.
00:51The process begins and we can see her going into her memories.
00:54All the images can be seen in the projector.
00:57The time she woke up this morning, went to her workplace and finally the place where she lost her keys.
01:03He went a bit further with the process and saw her cry before her performance.
01:07Nick was definitely interested in this woman and got even more impressed after hearing her beautiful voice.
01:12Later on, Watts gives him the jewelry that the same women left by mistake.
01:16He goes back to his house, make a drink and goes to sleep after looking at his diary.
01:20Nick goes to meet a friend and a detective called Avery in her office, where he sees a crooked businessman called Walter Sullivan with his son.
01:27It was clear that this city was filled with crime.
01:30Later, he travels to the same place where the mysterious women worked, where she serve him a drink, and he gives her jewelry back.
01:36He asks her the reason she was crying beforehand her performance, but she wanted him to mind his own business.
01:42Nick tells her to close her eyes and asks if she had a boyfriend, to which she says no.
01:46He again asks her the reason to cry and she suggests it was her nerves, she felt unsecure before her performance.
01:52Nick decide to drop her back home, where Nick takes a close look at her and they end up having a romantic moment.
01:58Later, he wakes up and finds me sitting on the terrace.
02:01They talk for a moment until they have a little kiss and Nick's vision starts to get deeper and we find him waking up from his own machine.
02:07While Watts was helping him out and shouting at him for using it too much in recent months, suggesting him to forget about me.
02:13It is revealed that me had vanished in thin air after having relationship with Nick for a few months.
02:19Nick had tried everything to get to find her or know about her, but nothing worked out.
02:22It was really hard for Nick to go on after falling in love with me, but he was not ready to just give up yet and move on.
02:28He again goes back into his memories, where Nick see a bruise on me's arm and asks about it, but she ignores it.
02:34He reveals to her that he loves her a lot, but she did not believe it because they were just together for a few months.
02:39She looked like she was worried about something.
02:41Later, he takes her to his favorite place and tells a happy story with a sad ending.
02:46In the middle, someone knocks on the door, but when he goes outside, he does not find anyone, but again sees the same jewelry that belongs to me.
02:54Detective Avery needed some help, so Nick Alon with Watts goes to her office where they see a man laying inside a pod.
03:00Their work was to wake his brain up so that they can find some projections or some evidence from his memories.
03:06Nothing was working out until Nick asked him if he enjoyed a party, to which suddenly the projection started.
03:11He was inside a party, where he meets St. Joe, a criminal Avery was looking for.
03:16Joe looks at me, who was also working there and singing a beautiful song.
03:20This guy introduces Joe to me, where Joe asks her to try baka, which was a strong substance in the city.
03:25But when she says no, the guy tried to harm her, but Joe stops him and put him on the ground.
03:30Suddenly, a detective takes the mic from Nick and asks some questions, hence going harsh on suspect's brain.
03:36Nick takes the charge and we see me once again, where she reveals how she was addicted to the substance called baka.
03:42Me was so addicted that she stole all baka from the criminal called Joe.
03:45Seeing this, Nick leaves on the spot very upset.
03:48Nick was having second thoughts if he really knew her, or was she some stranger who was running from the past.
03:53So he decided to go to New Orleans himself and figure things out.
03:57He walks up to the criminal mind called Joe and tells him that he was friend of Lorenzo.
04:01But little did Nick know, Lorenzo had died a long ago, so there was no way Lorenzo sent him.
04:06Joe started to blackmail him by putting his head inside his small aquarium, which also had some electric creatures inside it.
04:13Nick finally reveals he was there for a woman called me, but Joe says she betrayed him as well.
04:18Immediately, we can see Watts coming through the door and starting firing at all the men.
04:22In the heat of the moment, she breaks the water tank and proceed to take all the men down.
04:26Not too long after, all the men are executed including the main guy Joe.
04:30They leave after doing the obvious and we see a past memory of Nick and me.
04:34Their me proceeds to explain when London sank into the water, she arrived to Miami but without a plan.
04:40No saving or no place to stay, so decide to sleep in a dingy that she found in a canal.
04:45While she was sleeping, someone cut her loose, resulting in her ending up in the sea until she found Frances,
04:50who was living in a white house in the middle of a sea and took care of her.
04:54He then wakes up from the sleep and realizes that she was lying all the time.
04:57He thought she took something from him, but cannot figure out what.
05:01Then Watts reveals about her memories, where me told her about being an addict of the baka substance she was taking.
05:06While Watts gets emotional and all, me takes the opportunity to get her hands into the vault,
05:11from which she takes away the memories of a woman called Elsie Carrion.
05:15Nick takes a taxi to the place and looks for Carrion with a photo in his hands.
05:19Suddenly, he sees a girl, who runs away upon seeing him and later try to harm him thinking he was a cop.
05:24Nick gets to know Elsie Carrion was taken away from Earth by a random man and gave her child to me.
05:29Now this was becoming a bigger mystery than Nick could have ever imagined.
05:33Nick had to find her so he goes away and look for her, but finds out a man, who almost take his life away and tell him to.
05:39Forget about me, they find out.
05:41The man in his vision was the same man who worked for Criminal Joe.
05:45Later they discover something really odd, that a businessman called Walter had an affair with Elsie Carrion,
05:50who was married with Tamara Sylvan, who was his real wife and had a child with her as well.
05:55This suggests that the child taken away by me was Walter's child too.
05:59Not too long after, Watts and Nick start to argue because he was caring for a woman called me, who didn't even matter at all.
06:05Nick fires her from the job and tells her to work in a better place.
06:08She begs him to not take this path, but he goes away regardless.
06:12He later goes to meet Mrs. Sylvan regarding the case and finds out that everyone was wearing the same suit as Mr. Walter Sylvan.
06:18He discovers that since Walter's death, she could not accept his death and she is keep playing and living in her delusions.
06:25Nick tried to wake her up but instead gets taken away from the house and almost got his life taken.
06:30Not left any choice, he goes into the worst part of the city, where all the addicts live.
06:34In a moment of walking he sees me in filthy clothes, who was walking upstairs.
06:38He sees the same man from the projection and finds out the woman was not me and tells her to leave.
06:43This guy start to play with words and makes Nick even angrier and tricks him to be able to run away from there.
06:49Nick starts to chase him and they find themselves in a room with a hole filled with lots of water.
06:53Criminal's hand gets stuck inside a piano and it sinks along with him, but Nick could not let him die like this so he.
06:59Jumps inside and takes help him free himself.
07:02But the man kicks him inside and goes away, where Nick start to imagine me asking for him, which gives him a boost to escape.
07:08Later he gives him a sedative and takes him to his machine.
07:11He proceeds to see his memories, where one day this guy came and met me and threatened her to do what he says or he will tell Joe about her.
07:17She agrees to do what he says.
07:19He tells me to make Nick fall in love with her and steal the memories of Elsie Carine, Walter and whoever Walter was related to.
07:26It was all calculated and planned.
07:28It was revealed that he was sent to get rid of both Elsie and her little son.
07:31After taking down Elsie, he goes for her son Freddy, but me comes and takes him away in a boat.
07:36In the next memory, we see me knocking on the door of Nick's office, but this guy called Cyrus took her away.
07:42We can see, he was forcing her to tell him about the boy's location, while he was forcing her to take Baka.
07:48There she begins to reveal her love towards him, but she said all this for Nick, because she knew Nick will find this guy's memories and see all this.
07:56She reveals her love towards Nick and they kiss in the end.
07:58She does not wait anymore and consumes whole a lot of Baka and jumps off the building.
08:02Seeing this, Nick became really devastated and angry, so he does not wait and makes Cyrus remember the worst memory of his life, in which he was burning and left him like that.
08:12He goes up to Walter's house and meets his son, who actually set up all this and reveals to him that he told the cops everything, while they are picking Freddy up from the coast.
08:20He picks up the gun to their 10 Nick, but puts it on himself and still could not do it.
08:25Later, a Nick walks away and confront about his actions to Watts.
08:28He gives her all the memories needed to prove everything so she can give it to the detective Avery.
08:33Nick had decided his fate, he would live all his past memories with me for the rest of his life.
08:38He started spending all the lovely memories again with me and lived the rest of his life with pure love, while Watts would come time to time to take a look at him along with her daughter.
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