The Forgotten (2004)
Directed by Joseph Ruben
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created nine years of memories about a son she never had. But when she remembers a man who had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
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Maternity, madness, abandonment and loss have already been covered by films like Dark Water, The Forgotten, Flightplan and The Tall Man, but Mama dissipates the impact of these themes not only by failing to ground them in anything real or plausible, but also by allowing any subtext they might have to get lost amongst the trees.
But there are certain prescient pictures that point north, films like The Truman Show that I underestimated like I thought everyone else underestimated Dark City, or films that remain underestimated, such as Strange Days and Twelve Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's most uncompromising film since Brazil.