I went to see "The Forgotten" because the actual film I wanted to see wasn't on, so to be honest, I went into the theatre with a completely open mind because I hadn't even seen it advertised anywhere.....and I wasn't really looking forward to it! However, after a wee bit of a slow start, it ... Read review
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Advantages: You'll jump your way through it!! Disadvantages: It seems slow to start
...to see "The Forgotten" because the actual film I wanted to see wasn't on, so to be honest, I went into the theatre with a completely open mind because I hadn't even seen it advertised anywhere.....and I wasn't really looking forward to it! However, after a wee bit of a slow start, it ended up a very good film with many unexpected jumpy bits, My heart was in my mouth at some bits!
Characters
Julieann Moore - Telly Paretta ...
Julieann Moore's (Hannibal, The hours) character Telly Paretta's son Sam has been killed in a plane crash on his way to camp. This is along with 6 other children including Dominic West's(Mona-lisa smile, Chicago) character Ash Correll's daughter Lauren. However, along with a psychiatric doctor, her husband, Jim (Anthony Edwars, E.R.) tells her that her whole world didn't actually happen: that she was delusional and that her son never really ... more
I went to see "The Forgotten" because the actual film I wanted to see wasn't on, so to be honest, I went into the theatre with a completely open mind because I hadn't even seen it advertised anywhere.....and I wasn't really looking forward to it! However, after a wee bit of a slow start, it ended up a very good film with many unexpected jumpy bits, My heart was in my mouth at some bits!
Characters Julieann Moore - Telly Paretta Anthony Edwards - Jim Paretta Christopher Kovaleski - Sam Gary Sinise - Dr Jack Munse Dominic West - Ash Correll Robert Wisdom - Carl Dayton Kathryn Faughnan - Lauren Correll Alfre Woodard - Det. Anne Popo
Directed by - Joseph Ruben
Plot
Julieann Moore's (Hannibal, The hours) character Telly Paretta's son Sam has been killed in a plane crash on his way to camp. This is along with 6 other children including Dominic West's(Mona-lisa smile, Chicago) character Ash Correll's daughter Lauren. However, along with a psychiatric doctor, her husband, Jim (Anthony Edwars, E.R.) tells her that her whole world didn't actually happen: that she was delusional and that her son never really exsisted; was merely a figment of her imagination.
Telly, refusing to believe this sets out to find someone or something to prove her husband and her doctor wrong. However every picture, every video tape, everything that ever held a memory has been wiped or changed. She refuses to give up.
Come in Ash Correll, an ex football player and heavy drinker. Ash has no memory of his daughter Lauren, who was also killed on the plane crash. Telly, having burst her way into his house, peels back the wallpaper in his, now office, to find the drawings that Lauren had created on the walls. This at first is more detrimental than helpful and Ash phones the police. Having done so the police proceed to take telly away, but just as they're about to drive away, Ash's memory is promted and he runs out yelling to let Telly go. Only, it's not just the average police department that now has telly, it's the FBI....
Why do the FBI want to deal with an average "deranged" woman?! Telly gets free and from then on Telly and Ash are on a quest to find answers to their questions. There are many twists and turns in the plot and it's fairly difficult to summerise without giving them away, I don't think I have though. It changes from a "what's actually happened here", to a "who dun it and who do we trust", to a "why did they do it"?!
My Opinion.
As I said I was very sceptical about it all. I hadn't really seen an advertisment on it to create any pre-concieved notion as to how the film may be, but also because I hadn't read any reviews or heard any comments on it, I thought it was maybe a flop.
As the film begins, it gives the impression of a domestic drama. The film does extremely well making the audience qeustion Telly's sanity and ask whether this son Sam actually ever did exist. At the beggining I actually turned round to the person I was with and said this is awfully slow isn't it, but no sooner had those words left my mouth than the pace began to quicken and I was absolutly gripped. It jolts you into concentration because of the unexpected of the. You are literally sucked into this movie.
Jullieann Moore is really fantastic as the main character and carries the film, she is unyeilding in her belief and is played very strongly. To me, it is very X-file ish. A red headed leading woman, with a no nonsense aproach to things and a tall dark and handsome partner, with a slightly more confused approach to the situation- ring any bells?!? It shifts from a domestic drama to a psychological drama to a science fiction. This may lose some audiences, as it is classed PG, so the younger audience may not appreciate it.
It also extremely thought provoking and can leave a sour taste in your mouth(despite the popcorn!!). Ths film is based round the question of whether a mothers love, or just the love for your own child, really is the strongest love, and whether it is really unbreakable. It makes you question how much you love the people around you and if you would forget in the same circumstances. As a mother, I would love to profess that there is no way on gods green earth that I would ever, in a million years accept that I never had a child, but under such emense pressure, with no evidence to back me up, no pictures, no video, nothing, would I qestion what I thought I knew?!
Towards the end it does get fairly frightening, I found myself peeking through my fingers a number of times, and bracing myself for the next heart rendering moment, which I never seemed to pre pare enough for!! Definatly one to take ur current or prospective squeeze to, you'll definatly end up cuddling into them to sheild your eyes!!
Thank you for taking the time. Definatly a film to see on the big screen.
Advantages: Interesting, camera effects, great acting, suspense. Disadvantages: Slow in some places, a little predictable.
MOVIE
The Forgotten was a film released back in 2005, I had heard people talking about it and had seen it numerous times on the shelf in movies stores. The cover was pretty intriguing, but yet I couldn’t bring myself to pick it up, until I heard it was on TV the other day, missed it and decided to go out and get it. Not too expensive, but I wasn’t going to order it online and wait for the post to arrive. In my personal opinion I believe that the ... ...had a good plot, and the acting was alright, yet everything didn’t seem to fall into place. Okay, so I don’t want to sound negative, but I think the film was great, but not the best I’ve seen, everyone likes different things; besides I was hoping it would be so much better as everyone had “hyped” it up to be. Kind of similar to the situation of the disappearing of a child - like on Flight Plan (featuring Jodie Foster) where a kid goes missing, but ...
inbetweendaysx 03.07.2007
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Advantages: some good 'jump' moments Disadvantages: I will forget it (or is that an advantage)
...she has imagined him for the last 9 years so when she finds out that the same thing has happened to one of her sons friends she sets out to find out what is going on. Who can you trust? who is lying? what mysterious forces are at hand?
Plot
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The film starts with Telly (Julianne Moore) flicking through photo albums, watching videos of her son & reading newspaper clippings about the crashed plane that killed him.
After about 5 minutes of ... ...she is getting on at the moment. Telly asks where her coffee has gone, she had parker her car somewhere other than in its usual spot when she had set off earlier, the doctor is worried that she is creating memories. When she gets home her son Sam has vanished from a family photo so she calls her husband (Anthony Edwards) and leaves an angry message for him, assuming that he has doctored the picture in some way to stop her from hanging on to her sons ...
earlofaldgate 19.05.2006 (24.03.2007)
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Advantages: Great film Disadvantages: can get a bit far fetched in places
...day a friend lent me the disc. I've since bought it and enjoy watching it repeatedly - and here's why.
THE PLOT:
Did the child ever exist is what you have to ask yourself?
This film is a good one to watch if you like a good twist added to it. This film starts with a woman called Tilly played by Jullianne Moore. Playing the part of a wife and a supposed mother of a 8 year old boy whom she thinks she can remember. Tilly has some pictures of this ... ...and her husband but throughout the film, all evidence of this child is erased.
Videos are now blank and family photos now show Tilly and her man with no child. Her husband has no recollection of any of this ever happening but Tilly still goes on thinking she did have this little boy in her life. Who will ever believe her.
Through out the film it makes you think that the FBI have something to do with a huge cover up, Tilly can remember her son getting ...
gf6141a20 25.06.2006
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Advantages: Great Entertainment Disadvantages: Special Features
...it looked rather dull and the 12 rating didn't lend itself to being anything too good but it was the wife's choice and that kind of settled the matter! Cover Information
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The information on the DVD cover is misleading. On the front cover it states:
"What if everything you've experienced, everything you've known NEVER HAPPENED?"
On the reverse it states: "What if everything you believed in… every moment you experienced… and ... ...aren't representative of what the film is about because the film only deals with experiences relating to one particular subject [divulged in the main review below]. Other than that it is fairly unrevealing as to the nature of the film but does supply all the relevant technical information and also what's contained in the special features section of the DVD. Main Review
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I am a parent of two children. The oldest is ten. The youngest ...
Scotsmanmatt 27.07.2005 (19.08.2005)
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Advantages: Whole thing put together very well. Music very good. Disadvantages: Too much revealed too early: spoils the suspense.
The Plot
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The film starts with Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore), a mother who is still grieving for her nine year old son 14 months after he died in a plane crash. She is seeing a psychiatrist about it and relations are strained between herself and her husband. She is devastated when they inform her that she never had a son. She is suffering from mental illness and has fabricated all the memories.
Telly cannot believe this and sets out determined ... ...the help of Ash (Dominic West), a father whose daughter was friends with Sam and died in the same crash. At first he says he never had a daughter and thinks she's crazy. He calls the cops who come to take Telly but suddenly he has a flashback and apparently remembers a daughter. He runs down to get Telly released as the "Feds" are about to take her away. There follows a tussle and the police chase them. They separate, manage to evade the police and ...
susancarter 25.02.2006
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Until the very last moments of Joseph Ruben's spooky suspense thriller, viewers will question who's who in the us-versus-them conundrum. We have but one hint: 'It's not about the children'. But as local police, the feds, and other unknowns follow Telly (Julianne Moore), a young mother who refuses to forget the death of her 9-year-old son Sam, it's clear that the children are a hot-button issue. While it's fishy enough that nobody--not even Telly's own husband (Anthony Edwards)--seems to remember Sam, and the plane crash she claims killed him was never reported in the newspapers, it's a question of whose story to believe. And Moore, the frantic mother with madness flickering in her eyes, may simply be delusional, or so her shrink (Gary Sinise) says. But when she finds another grieving parent, Ash (Dominic West), whose daughter died in the same accident, she now has a partner in conspiracy theory. Together, Ash and Telly flee through the damp alleyways beneath the Brooklyn Bridge where steam escapes from potholes and police searchlights penetrate the gothic fog. Somebody knows something about the children, and 'they' want Ash and Telly to forget. THE FORGOTTEN springs into an action-adventure race for the truth, with surprising special effects, exciting jolts, and bird's-eye camera shots on ominous geometric patterns in the urban landscape keeping this mystery in fifth gear.
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DVD
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Director And Writer Commentary, Deleted Scenes, On The Set The Making Of, Remembering The Forgotten Making Of
Aspect Ratio
1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English Hungarian Spanish
DVD Description
Until the very last moments of Joseph Ruben's spooky suspense thriller, viewers will question who's who in the us-versus-them conundrum. We have but one hint: 'It's not about the children'. But as local police, the feds, and other unknowns follow Telly (Julianne Moore), a young mother who refuses to forget the death of her 9-year-old son Sam, it's clear that the children are a hot-button issue. While it's fishy enough that nobody--not even Telly's own husband (Anthony Edwards)--seems to remember Sam, and the plane crash she claims killed him was never reported in the newspapers, it's a question of whose story to believe. And Moore, the frantic mother with madness flickering in her eyes, may simply be delusional, or so her shrink (Gary Sinise) says. But when she finds another grieving parent, Ash (Dominic West), whose daughter died in the same accident, she now has a partner in conspiracy theory. Together, Ash and Telly flee through the damp alleyways beneath the Brooklyn Bridge where steam escapes from potholes and police searchlights penetrate the gothic fog. Somebody knows something about the children, and 'they' want Ash and Telly to forget. THE FORGOTTEN springs into an action-adventure race for the truth, with surprising special effects, exciting jolts, and bird's-eye camera shots on ominous geometric patterns in the urban landscape keeping this mystery in fifth gear.
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