like a high school, supernatural version of Se7en (1995)
that probably sounds like a joke, but I'm being serious. What I mean is, remember in Se7en where the Kevin Spacey character talks about how, in normal daily life, we see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we accept it. We accept it because it is common. That is almost a direct quote... I am probably not quite remembering it right, but he definitely says something like that. So, OK, granted, the Kevin Spacey character was a total loony toons psycho mutant sadistic nutjob mass murderer. I'll grant you that. But, I think that by having that character say what he said, the director and writers of Se7en were trying to get viewers to think about how, in our regular, normal, daily lives, we all just let things that we know are wrong go, we let things slide, and we allow the world to be much more morally corrupt and terrible than it could be if we made more of an effort to change things.
Basically, the Kevin Spacey character is killing the people he kills because he wants to make a statement. He wants the world to think about the idea that the people he kills each represent things that Western Civilization once held to be WRONG.
OK, now I am going to try to connect that to Forget Me Not. If you think about it in a religious way: not unlike the killer's victims in Se7en, Demon-Angela's victims were such total dirtbags that it is almost unbelievable. In fact, they were probably worse than the victims in Se7en... in Se7en, each of the killer's victims embodied one, single, particular serious sin, but in Forget Me Not, ALL of the killer's victims were just sinning, damaging themselves and others, and just generally being really soulless, incredibly irresponsible, bad people, as much as they possibly could, in as many ways as possible, nonstop. The fact that hardly anyone on this board even notices this fact, because, after all, the characters in this movie are basically just a LITTLE more wild than average kids today, should probably disturb us all, at least a little.
They were constantly, CONSTANTLY doing really serious drugs, smoking, drinking, cheating on each other and breaking each other's hearts sexually (and pre-maritally), stealing (in fact, that one girl with black hair apparently actually had sex with the convenience store clerk, to distract him, just so her friends could steal some plastic cups, beer, and some kind of mixers for liquor, and maybe some ice), one guy disrespectfully plays football in a chapel, they scare a little girl literally half to death for no reason at all, they take chances of risking other people's lives by driving dangerously on the highways, and eventually Sandy even flat out commits murder. (Yeah, I know, the murder was in self defense, but, just hear me out for a minute here).
By the way, I'm not saying that smoking, drinking, or even doing terribly dangerous, destructive drugs are "sins." But, by showing the kids doing that type of thing all the time, I think the director and the writers were trying to get us to see that these kids were not exactly the creme de la creme of humanity.
You could just say, "OK, so maybe the characters are a little wild, so what, they're just kids, who cares" (in fact that is what I thought, the first time I saw this movie) but the more I think it over, the more I think that those characters were intended to be portrayed in this movie as SO wild that the director wanted us, as viewers, to feel like it was morally wrong. It was almost like the kids had a checklist of the Seven Deadly Sins, or the Ten Commandments, and they were just going down the list violating as many of them as possible. In fact, I wonder if they do violate them all... it's possible. I think we, as viewers, are supposed to at least consider the possibility that the way the characters behaved in every single scene was so WRONG that they might be setting themselves up for some kind of supernatural comeuppance. Whether you believe in God or not isn't even necessarily the point. It is possible that simple karma, or in this case a demon, (hey, it's a horror movie) could be what destroys them.
I'm not sure that the real Angela was supposed to be evil at all. Maybe we are supposed to think that the demon sort of adapted her form, to wreck vengeance on the kids who put her in the coma? I am still trying to figure that part out, I don't know.
Also, just the fact that they had any scenes at all in a chapel... that is less common than it used to be, in a horror movie. It makes me think that religion, or religious ideas, are part and parcel of the conceptualization of this film. This film deals with similar religious ideas to what are dealt with in Se7en, I think, and maybe the only big difference is that the characters in Forget Me Not who we assume will be the protagonists, the "good guys," are actually the bad guys all along. It is sort of like it might be if they remade Se7en in such a way that the narrative followed the lives of the victims, rather than the detectives solving the crimes.
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