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From the beginning, however, the crew believed deeply in the film??s importance. In the planning stages, when it became clear just how unwilling studios were to offer funding, each personally invested several thousands of dollars in order to make it happen. “Not a small amount of money,” Johnston says. “It was a big commitment to the project...
When asked whether he feared that the public reaction to the film might stall over questions about the film??s “real” and staged episodes, Johnston said that it “might, to a certain degree.” But even if viewers are skeptical, he says he will have achieved one of his goals...
Certainly, I got some shudders and had to jump in my seat a few times, but I hadn’t come for that—and even for a thriller it didn’t make much sense, by film??s end. The Forgotten turned out to be the kind of film from which you can expect to walk away at least with a vision of the darker side, of the stuff of nightmares and dystopian visions, a new cinematic trick in your bag of coping mechanisms for what life throws...
...grief over losses in the Sept. 11 attacks, to understand, record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by his translator, Wali Zarif, and a curiously laconic cameraman who is either a failed attempt at comic relief or simply an emblem of the film??s utter weirdness...
...film??s fictional portions are as poor as these moments are brilliant. The script and acting conspire to deny the Larsen character any credibility. His voiceover commentary is both gratingly juvenile—“a real bounty hunter”—and absurdly hard-boiled—“what might just be our VIP pass into the shitstorm?”. He has the mentality and combat skills of a commando, but the profession and body art of a hipster. Larson’s real physical courage is entirely at odds with...