Mennonites in the Movies!


As posted on my fb page after seeing it on TV today: "REIMER and BRANDT are the main characters' last names. Leading actress is an UNGER. What would P B Reimer say, a mennonite founder of Steinbach and writer of cherished primary history? Filmed around Vancouver and written by Mr. Cohen, I'd love to look under the hood n see where my relatives' names came from. At last a Reimer got to correct in a big way, generations of mispronunciation of their last name too, as a detective who looks eerily like me and mine asks a coworker, "Maybe it's NOT pronounced 'Ray-mer' but 'RHYME-er'?" The plot is convoluted enough to have grown out of ongoing neighbourhood story-making of the Panthers on Mill Street. So nice to stumble upon this little mystery within a big, colourful movie mystery!"

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Not sure ... are you saying the name Reimer is supposed to be pronounced 'Ray-mer' or 'Rhym-er'? Because that was a huge sticking point with me. They kept saying Raymer when I have always known it to be Rhymer.
But the scene where it becomes clear that it is promounced Rhymer makes no sense. Did it?
Paraphrasing:
"What if it's pronounced Rhymer? There was this RED fortune from a fortune cookie and it had "thief" underlined."
And somehow that cracked the case wide open! What?!
I don't understand how changing the pronunciation of the person's name led him to these conclusions.

Such a promising movie that just devolved into ridiculously bad writing.

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