2017 · thriller · mystery · crime
Forgotten
Directed by Chang Hang-jun1h 48m2017
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.
Our read: Forgotten (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- twisty
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