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...clamber down the rock face rather than follow the "hippies" down the trail, to predictably disastrous results. In another a man cruises a fellow traveler for a quickie inside an Egyptian temple. But, lacking in detail or development, and drawn with a minimum of detail, the stories will be forgotten as quickly as you turn the page...
...film would be about the intricacies of the human mind, the ways in which memory can edit itself to protect us, how it can warp our perception of our lives to the extent that what is true for one person is considered delusional by those around her. The Forgotten teased me with echoes of Memento and The Sixth Sense and stirrings of Conspiracy Theory, with all the necessary ingredients for a philosophically sound, psychologically wrenching treatment of the division between reality and our experience of it. Still, although it begins on the right path, it quickly took the one most...
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...
...merely pandering. At the end, we see the crazy lady isn’t actually crazy: It’s her world that is insane. The validation of her fears should have been enough of a conclusion, and in our world it would have been, but, for The Forgotten...
...reminiscent of the sense of fun that was integral to the ideology of early MTV’s girly darlings, and we remember the verity of the Hotnights’ formation: these are four life-long girlfriends, and their unity and cohesion can’t be forgotten on any moment of the album...