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Forgotten starts off as a seemingly simple psychological thriller: we follow Jin-seok, a young man who moves into a new home with his family and watches his older brother get mysteriously kidnapped. When his brother returns weeks later with no memory of the trauma and acting strangely, paranoia and mistrust quickly take over.
​However, the greatest triumph of director Jang Hang-jun is the film’s brilliant buildup. It relies on small, subtle details—a pill, a sound from the locked room, an anomaly on the calendar—to systematically erode the protagonist’s sanity and the viewer’s trust in what they are seeing. The atmosphere is suffocating, and just when you think you’ve figured out where the story is heading, the script hits you with a perfect plot twist.