So the premise is: they travel back in time, change their future, travel back to the present, forget everything they did while time traveling, and now have to just experience their new future without knowing anything changed? Do I have a that right?
I mean, how do you know this isn’t the backstory for every character in every story ever? How do you know you didn’t JUST do this yourself?
It Follows
I like that it’s such a simple concept for a horror movie, but it’s still highly engaging for the audience.
Early on in the movie, it (quite literally) teaches you a set of rules that the monster operates by, and the rest of the film feels almost like an interactive game.
Beyond that, the writing and cinematography just let the audience play along. The characters are deliberating their plans on how they would deal with the monster, letting you also think about what you would do in their situation. And the camera likes to slowly pan around the people talking so that all the while, the audience is scanning the background looking for the monster. It can look like anyone, and they constantly, and deliberately put extras in the background walking directly toward the camera just to make you go “oh shit! Is that it right there? Hey, pay attention, we need to move!”
It’s just such a fun, unique experience. I don’t know of another horror movie experience quite like it.
Ahh, yeah, I think I didn’t quite follow OP’s request. The part they don’t remember is the time between where they traveled to in the past and their “present”, and the story is about them intuiting what happened in there.
From the title it sounded like the protagonist was suffering amnesia-like symptoms about how the world used to be along with everyone else.