One of the missing children is somehow connected to the strange mutilations and deaths of elders who seem to be part of a sect and, above all, with the psychiatrist's son. ), «I Remember You» involves complex characters and biographies full of ungrateful incidents, from the psychiatrist who has never been able to locate the body of his missing son, to the man and two women trying to open a hostel on an abandoned island, without knowing that they are in the house with a horrific past. Based on a novel by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Reykjavik, 1963), an Icelandic author specializing in two genres perhaps antagonistic (crime novels and children's books. Their responsibility or guilt take the form of ghosts that generally only they can see and "free" them from the attachment to this plane of existence. These stories frequently reflect on the sense of responsibility or guilt felt by those who remain alive when someone close dies, in whose deaths they were somehow involved. In «I Remember You», we find two children who were mistreated and mocked by their peers and suddenly were missing. In «Pretty Thing», a nurse is haunted by the specter of a beautiful young woman who was killed by her groom. Both works address a favorite conflict in horror motion pictures, stories and myths: that of the spirits that seek peace, after violent deaths or when their bodies have not been found. While watching this Icelandic film, I remembered what happened to a similar movie, «I Am the Beautiful Thing That Lives in the House", a Canadian production that was misunderstood, maligned and unjustly underrated.
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