Forgotten

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Movie
German title Forgotten
Original title Gieok-ui Bam ( 기억 의 밤 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2017
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Zhang Hang-jun
script Jang Hang-jun
production Kim Sol
Park Jun-sik
music Kim Tae-hun
camera Kim Il-yeon
cut Heo Sun-mi
Jo Han-ul
occupation

Forgotten (original title: Gieok-ui Bam ) is a mystery thriller by the South Korean director Zhang Hang-jun from 2017. The main roles are Kang Ha-neul, Kim Mu-yeol, Moon Sung-keun and Na Young-hee . Netflix secured the rights to international distribution of the film.

action

Jin-seok moves into a new house with his brother and parents. He had always looked up to his older brother Yu-seok. He was always the best in his class, both in sport and intellectually, exuding wit and charm. However, he was in a car accident that left him limping on his left leg. When he arrives at the new house, he is told that a room is not yet available and should not be entered, as the previous tenant would still pick up things from there during the month. Yu-seok has to sleep in the same room with Jin-seok.

However, he keeps hearing noises from the room. He also keeps having nightmares about ghosts and torture. One reason why he has to take pills. One evening he and Yu-seok walk a little down the street to relax. On a hill that overlooks the city, Yu-seok receives a call from his father. This would need a document. Jin-seok should wait there, Yu-seok would bring it to his father quickly. But on his way, Yu-seok is kidnapped. Jin-seok just realizes, but can't do anything.

The family does not receive a call from the kidnappers. The police do not know the identifier that Jin-seok memorized. After 19 days, Yu-seok returns, but can't remember anything. Jin-seok notices that Yu-seok always leaves the house in the evening. He also saw him hobble on his right leg. He decides to follow him in a taxi and through dark alleys. Yu-seok meets the two who pretended to be police officers in the kidnapping case to Jin-seok. Yu-seok seems to be the boss of these. Jin-seok continues to follow Yu-seok, but is discovered by the two fake police officers. The persecution ensues in which Yu-seok can capture Jin-seok.

The next morning Jin-seok wakes up and Yu-seok tries to convince him that he was only dreaming everything. Scared at first, Jin-seok believes him. Yu-seok asks him if he was taking his medication. But he didn't take it the day before. In the evening, however, he hears his mother talking to someone on the phone, which sounds like a plan, and she talks about Jin-seok as a bastard. Jin-seok then escapes to the police and says three people are posing as his family. He also learns that he is not 21 at all, but already 41 and it is not 1997, but 2017.

The police believe that Jin-seok is mentally confused. Jin-seok comes back to reality more and more and sees his aged, real self in the mirror. He decides to return to the new house to find out all about the background. Yu-seok tells him that Jin-seok murdered a mother and daughter in this house 20 years ago. You would know exactly that it was him. The case caused a stir at the time, but could not be resolved until the statute of limitations. The family should then have hired a private detective. When he finally found Jin-seok, he remembered nothing. The family wanted to know everything and could not take revenge if he did not remember.

Jin-seok experienced a traumatic event from his parents' death and murder in 1997, so Yu-seok tried several methods to restore Jin-seok's memory. This also included recreating the day the family moved with hypnosis and a few adjustments. But Jin-seok does not remember and is convinced that he is not a murderer. He tries to escape again, but is hit by a car and comes to the hospital. There he can suddenly remember. He couldn't find a job due to the Asian crisis , his brother was in hospital after the car accident and he needed money for the operation.

A doctor offers him money for a murder. Jin-seok is supposed to kill his wife, but not the two children. Jin-seok accepts, but wants to back off at home. However, the daughter Chan-mi discovers him and begins to scream. Jin-seok wants her to stop. A scramble ensues in which he kills both daughter and mother. The doctor was also hit by the financial crisis and has taken out insurance for his wife. In a tussle between Jin-seok and the doctor, the latter falls from the roof.

Jin-seok wakes up in the hospital and learns that the investigator was the surviving son. He wants to know the truth. After his parents died, his relatives took all the money and put him in an orphanage. He already had evidence from the insurance companies that his father may have commissioned the murder of his mother. To protect him, Jin-seok lies to him and says it was all his plan. The detective then commits suicide.

reception

Forgotten was shown in South Korean cinemas on November 29, 2017 and had almost 1.4 million viewers. For Pierce Conran, the first half creates an interesting puzzle about a seemingly perfect family, but after the first surprising twist, one revelation and twist after the other, so that the story loses credibility. Eddie Strain from The Daily Dot, however, draws a slightly different conclusion: He awards 3.5 out of 5 stars and describes Forgotten as the first great Netflix original of the year (2018). The only drawback he sees is that every twist is carefully explained. The audience would be taken too much by the hand. But many would certainly welcome this. It is an exciting thriller of which not a minute is wasted.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonia Kil: Netflix Picks Up Korean Mystery Thriller 'Forgotten'. In: Variety . November 9, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lee Hyo-won: Netflix picks up the South Korean mystery thriller 'Forgotten'. The mystery thriller will be available in 190 countries after premiering in Korean theaters on Nov. 29. In: The Hollywood Reporter . November 9, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Forgotten (2017). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Pierce Conran: Review: FORGOTTEN Mislays Its Mystery after Strong Start. In: ScreenAnarchy. November 29, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Eddie Strait: 'Forgotten' is Netflix's first great original film of 2018. In: The Daily Dot. February 26, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 .