1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Release

5. References

6. External links

Plot

Jin-seok is a young man, he narrates about his older brother, Yoo-seok, and his admiration for him. He is in a car ride with his mother, father, and brother to their new home.

Things seem a bit strange to Jin-seok in their new home though, but he doesn't know exactly what or why. On a rainy night, he witnesses the abduction of Yoo-seok, being dragged into a car and disappearing into the night. He returns home and collapsed. 19 days passes since his brother's abduction, but suddenly he reappears at home one night. He tells Jin that he remembers nothing about his 19 days of disappearance, and the family believes Yoo has a repressed memory because of the ordeal.

However, Jin starts to notice discrepancies in Yoo-seok's personality and behavior, as well as those of his parents. He realizes that his parents and brothers are not who they really are (that is, that they are not his family at all, and the people pretending to be his family don't even look like them). He manages to escape the house that he was in and from the people who were in it, when he sees a police car in the streets during his escape and cries for their help.

He tells the senior officer that he is 21, his name and social security number, and that he was held captive by people pretending to be his family. The officers are skeptical. When they ask him what year it is, he replies that it's 1997; however the officer points to a calendar which shows that it has been twenty years since 1997, and it was now 2017. Jin is in fact, 41 years old.

A shocked Jin looks around and sees an officer reading on a tablet, and sees delinquent teens that are at the station video recording him on a smartphone; as well as the news that's on a LED flatscreen TV at the station, which shows current South Korean President Moon Jae-in and United States President Donald Trump meeting with each other in Seoul. The most shocking is when he sees himself in a mirror, and no longer sees the youthful face of his 21 year old self, but an aged face of a 41 year old man instead. Jin leaves the police station confused, but is snatched up by the same group that was holding him captive, led by the young man who was pretending to be his older brother.

The man tells Jin that twenty years ago, a young girl and her mother were brutally murdered inside their home. There was no leads and no suspects, the case went cold. However, the family of the victims hired the young man to find their murderer, and after a lengthy investigation he was able to locate and determine that Jin-seok was the killer. It is shown in flashbacks as the young man narrates, that Jin was abducted and tortured to confess, but maintains his innocence the whole entire time. A psychiatrist is called as part of the elaborate investigation, who suggested that Jin-seok has a repressed memory of the event because it was too much for his psyche to handle, so his brain blocked out that traumatic event altogether.

It is shown that the investigating team has the psychiatrist hypnotize Jin back to his last happy memory from 1997, claiming that if the team can re-enact the events of the night of the murder, Jin might be able to uncover his repressed memories and tell the young man what happened. Everything was going as planned until the rainy night at the beginning of the movie, when Jin thought he saw Yoo-seok abducted by men in a car; it turns out that the young man was actually taken into custody by the police for fraud and another offense, and was gone for 19 days because that was how long he was in jail until he could get released. The team tried again to recreate the night of the murder, but couldn't because it hadn't rain since then, so they had to keep stalling until they could get another rainy night.

The young man tells Jin that he probably doesn't believe anything he just said, but Jin tells him he actually believes everything, except for one thing, that he never killed anyone. Jin escapes the van by rolling out of it while they are driving. In an ensuing chase, the young man crashes the van while chasing after Jin and is seemingly dead. Jin walks away from the scene, but as fate would have it, he gets accidentally hit by a car of an uninvolved stranger. The driver gets out to check on Jin and calls the police to report the accident. As Jin is laying on the ground, he regains his memories from 1997.

In a flashback to 1997, he is shown in the scene from the start of the movie; he is in a car, only this time he is driving with his real mom and dad, and older brother. All of a sudden they're in a car accident, which is what he's blocked out since then. His parents died from the accident, and his brother is in critical condition. Six months passes, he desperately needs money for Yoo-seok's recovery, and is told by his brother's doctor that he'll need surgery soon; but times are especially hard in South Korea, where the country has been hit severely in the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. He goes on to one of those internet chatrooms that they had in 1997, seeking a job, and is Instant Messaged by an anonymous person telling Jin he'll pay him to kill a woman.

The anonymous man provides Jin with the address and keys to the house, and directions that he is only to kill the wife, and leave the two children that are also there unharmed. On the night of the planned murder, Jin goes to the house, but he comes to his senses and can't go through with it. He is about to leave but the mother sees him and screams, Jin tells her that it was all a mistake and that he'll leave if she'll just be quiet. He again starts to leave, but is discovered by the young daughter who sees Jin holding a large kitchen knife. She starts screaming, and her mother tries to tell her to keep calm, as well as Jin yelling for her to stop screaming, but the daughter cannot stop screaming. Jin ends up killing her and the mother. After Jin comes downstairs and begins to leave, the youngest child, a little boy, comes out from his bedroom wondering where his mother and sister are. Jin tells the little boy to go to bed and count to one hundred, ten times. The boy does as he's told, and as Jin finally starts to leave the house, he sees a family portrait on the wall and discovers that this is his brother's doctor's family.

At daybreak Jin meets up with the anonymous man, who is indeed his brother's doctor, and is furious. He demands to know why the doctor would have his own family killed. The doctor explains that it was to keep his children from being put out on the streets due to the financial crisis; that he had taken multiple insurance policies on his wife, but that Jin was only supposed to kill his wife and leave his children unharmed. He tells Jin that because he killed his daughter, now Yoo-seok will die as well. A struggle ensues and the doctor gets accidentally knocked off the ledge of a rooftop that they were at.

Jin presently wakes up in a hospital, after being hit by a car during his chase and escape. The mysterious young man who has been investigating him for the murders also survived his car accident, and is in the same hospital. The man reveals that he was the little boy in the house twenty years ago when Jin killed his mother and sister. He tells Jin that after the deaths of all his immediate family, his relatives took all the money and he grew up in an orphanage. He asks why Jin didn't kill him too and if the murders were planned by his father, who he suspected because during his investigation he discovered the insurance policies that his father took on his mother. A distraught Jin, who now has regained all of his suppressed memories of that event, tearfully tells the young man that it was all on him alone, but the young man doesn't believe him.

Jin, now knowing he did in fact committed the murders, commits suicide in his hospital room with a poisonous needle that was dropped by the young man; while simultaneously, the young man finally comes to terms with the murders of his family, also commits suicide by jumping out of the hospital window.

Cast

• Kang Ha-neul as Jin-seok
• Kim Mu-yeol as Yoo-seok
• Moon Sung-keun
• Na Young-hee
• Lee Dong-jin
• Lee Sung-woo
• Yeon Je-hyung

Production

Release

The film was released in South Korea on November 29, 2017.^[9]

After the local release, Forgotten was released on Netflix and available for 190 countries.^[10][11]

References

External links

• {{hancinema film|Forgotten}}
• {{IMDb title|7057496}}
• {{KMDb film|16586|Forgotten}}

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