This film has a very good premise. Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, a cutter. A person who views the memories of the dead and constructs a rememory - an edited memorial of the good parts of their lives for their loved ones to enjoy. He is haunted by a childhood memory that he may have been able to save another boys life but was unable to help him. At the same time he is also being pursued by people who wish to undermine the technology that stores these memories.
He is editing the life of a man connected to the creation of the technology he uses and discovers he had abused his young daughter (I assume this is what we are supposed to infer from the scenario we are presented with from his memory before Hakman edits its from existence. The film deals with the issues of memory, privacy, it is very Orwellian indeed. The ending is very weak and could have been resolved a lot better after Hakman's death, with us at least seeing how the footage of his life was used to bring down the technology used to store memories.
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