Forgotten

Forgotten is a 2017 South Korean psychological thriller film written and directed by Jang Hang-jun. The film stars Kang Ha-neul and Kim Mu-yeol, with Moon Sung-keun and Na Young-hee in supporting roles. Plot Jin-seok, a young man, moves to a new house with his mother, father, and older brother Yoo-seok. Things seem off to Jin-seok in their new home. One rainy night he witnesses Yoo-seok being kidnapped and dragged into a car. 19 days later, Yoo-seok reappears, with no memory of his abduction. Jin starts noticing discrepancies in his family's personality. He then realizes that they are not his family at all, but people pretending to be his family. He escapes the house and goes to the police. When he tells them he is 21 years old, the skeptical officer asks him what year it is. He replies that it's 1997; the officer reveals that it is actually 2017. Jin is, in fact, 41 years old. A shocked Jin looks around and sees signs of modern life: a tablet, a smartphone; a LED flat-screen TV showing the current South Korean President Moon Jae-in and United States President Donald Trump. He leaves confused, but is captured by the same "family" that was holding him captive. The Yoo-seok who pretended to be his brother tells Jin that 20 years prior, a teenage girl and her mother were murdered. The case went cold, so the family of the victims hired him to find the murderer, who is Jin. In flashbacks, it is shown that Jin was abducted and tortured to confess, but maintained his innocence. A psychiatrist suggested that he had repressed his memories because the event was too traumatic. The team has the psychiatrist hypnotize him back to his last happy memory in 1997, figuring that if they could reenact the events of the murder, Jin might be able to recover his memories and tell them what happened. Everything was going as planned until the night when Jin saw Yoo-seok being kidnapped. He was actually being arrested for fraud, and was gone for 19 days because they needed to wait until the next rainy night to properly reenact the night of the murder. Back in the present, Jin escapes the van and the Yoo-seok crashes, while Jin is struck by a stranger's car, resulting in him regaining his memories from 1997. In 1997, the opening scene from the film is shown, except this time, Jin is with his actual parents and older brother, Yoo-seok. They are in a car accident that kills his parents and mortally injures his brother.