The Forgotten story
The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological horror thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache, and Anthony Edwards. Synopsis: A woman believes that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months earlier, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son. All of her memories are intact, but with no physical evidence that contradicts the claims of her husband and her psychiatrist, and she sets out in search for solid evidence of her son's existence.
14 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| maternal love | choice | The whole story built up to the revelation that Telly was part of a bizarre experiment to test whether the bond of love between mother and her child could be broken. It couldn't in Telly's case. |
| coping with a loved one being missing | major | The story follows Telly as she tries to get to the bottom of what happened to her young son, Sam. Ditto for Ash and his young daughter, Lauren. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | Telly and Ash were being pursued by National Security agents for the better part of the film. |
| father and daughter | major | The film follows Ash as she tries to find out the true fate of his young daughter, Lauren. |
| memory erasure | major | Central to the plot was that Telly had had all memories of her young son, Sam, erased. Ditto for Ash and his young daughter, Lauren. |
| mother and son | major | The film follows Telly as she tries to find out the true fate of her young son, Sam. |
| unethical human experimentation | major | The viewer is made to ponder what kind of crazy world it is where a mother can have all memories of her son erased in the name of testing whether the bonds between a mother and her child can be diminished. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Telly insinuated that Ash had taken to the bottle in the wake of his young daughter's death. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Ash secured a man to a chair and proceeded to beat some information out of him. |
| coping with the death of a child | minor | Telly started out grieving the loss of her young son, She soon, however, came to be convinced that he was still alive and resolved to find him. Ash underwent a similar experience over his young daughter, Lauren. |