Forgotten: Who Is He, Anyway?

Much of the fun of the psychological thriller Forgotten lies in trying to piece together what's the hell's going on so if you're planning on seeing this movie any time soon for God's sake, stop reading this reaction immediately. Allow yourself to be surprised! Still there? Okay. Well, at first, I thought the younger son (Kang Ha-neul) was having a flashback during which he was going to have to relive the murder of his family. Then I thought, no, he's hallucinating stuff because of his medication...which may hurt or help his ability to see the future. Or maybe his brother (Kim Mu-yeol) really has been abducted by aliens who are going to turn him and his parents into pod people. But that too wasn't quite right. Was his whole family composed of extraterrestrials engaged in experimentation? Or were they all mad scientists who somehow were in cahoots with the police department to drive our young hero crazy and if so, why? But that wasn't it either.

I mean some things I kinda had right and some I had wrong but eventually when the truth came out — none of which involved visitors from another planet but it might as well have — the movie became a bit less exciting for me. A forgotten pill dropped under the kitchen cabinets is suddenly a lost opportunity to have a vision! Who cares if no one is exactly who you think they are because no one's ultimately going to be happy accepting who they truly are when they eventually find out. Remind anyone else too much of real life? So sue me. And get me a makeover.