PunkyMalone
10-11-2004, 04:22 PM
Movie: The Forgotten
Starring: Julianne Moore
Genre: sci-fi/suspence
Review: At the beginning, we meet Julianne Moore's character Tellie, whose 9-year-old son Sam died in a plane crash 14 months ago. As the movie progresses, things happen... tapes and scrapbooks she kept of Sam become blank, he disappears from photographs, etc. Later we learn from her psychiatrist that there never was a Sam, that she had a miscarriage and suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which made her delusional and made her invent memories of this fictional child.
It would've been fine if it stopped there... I mean, if that was the movie, that there WAS no Sam, that she imagined everything and that's why her husband didn't remember him. But no, that'd be too much like A Beautiful Mind. So they throw in this twist, where it's really aliens. Yes, aliens. Tellie meets Ash, the father of one of Sam's friends who also disappeared/"died" in the same plane crash. But he forgot, until she forced him to say his daughter's name out loud. After that, they try to escape the National Security Agency while trying to uncover the mystery behind their children's disappearance. Eventually they do, and everything goes back to normal... the children are returned, and it's like nothing happened. But Tellie's husband never comes back (his memory was wiped too and he didn't remember her). Loose ends never tied up... always fun.
The movie is well-made. The cinematography is great... there are always little clues. Like every time something related to the plot twist happens, you see some kind of circular shape - either a playground, a fountain, the moon... there's always circles. Made me think of crop circles. I'm conflicted about this movie, because it was well-made but very predictable and the twist was kind of cheesey. But it was still a well-done movie.
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Star rating: ***
Starring: Julianne Moore
Genre: sci-fi/suspence
Review: At the beginning, we meet Julianne Moore's character Tellie, whose 9-year-old son Sam died in a plane crash 14 months ago. As the movie progresses, things happen... tapes and scrapbooks she kept of Sam become blank, he disappears from photographs, etc. Later we learn from her psychiatrist that there never was a Sam, that she had a miscarriage and suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which made her delusional and made her invent memories of this fictional child.
It would've been fine if it stopped there... I mean, if that was the movie, that there WAS no Sam, that she imagined everything and that's why her husband didn't remember him. But no, that'd be too much like A Beautiful Mind. So they throw in this twist, where it's really aliens. Yes, aliens. Tellie meets Ash, the father of one of Sam's friends who also disappeared/"died" in the same plane crash. But he forgot, until she forced him to say his daughter's name out loud. After that, they try to escape the National Security Agency while trying to uncover the mystery behind their children's disappearance. Eventually they do, and everything goes back to normal... the children are returned, and it's like nothing happened. But Tellie's husband never comes back (his memory was wiped too and he didn't remember her). Loose ends never tied up... always fun.
The movie is well-made. The cinematography is great... there are always little clues. Like every time something related to the plot twist happens, you see some kind of circular shape - either a playground, a fountain, the moon... there's always circles. Made me think of crop circles. I'm conflicted about this movie, because it was well-made but very predictable and the twist was kind of cheesey. But it was still a well-done movie.
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Star rating: ***