Entering the new year, the world of horror fans directly proffered latest offerings through the film The Forest. The film, so the film debut of director Jason Zada cinema is picked up the story about Aokigahara forest, known as a 'favorite' for suicide in Japan. The film, also involving a Hollywood producer, David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, The Dark Knight, Blade) is also trying to combine local supernatural legends of Japan in typical Hollywood narrative.
An American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer) got the news that her twin sister, Jess (also played by Dormer) who works as a teacher in Japan disappeared Aokigahara, a forest at the foot of the famous Mount Fuji. Sara agitated because of the search for his sister is not done immediately. He came to Japan and learned that virtually everyone assumes she is dead. The reason, believed that each person lost in Aokigahara been ascertained intend to commit suicide, whether intentionally or deceived full dedemit ruse called yuurei.
However, Sara believes that she is still alive, so he is desperate to come to Aokigahara alone. Before the search is done, Sara was fortunate to meet with a US journalist working in Tokyo, Aiden (Taylor Kinney), who was about to write an article about Aokigahara. Searches carried out Sara was assisted by Aiden and a local guide, Michi (Yukiyoshi Ozawa). However, the intention Sara begins to falter when he suffered what was feared by the people of the forest.
Mixed by screenwriter Nick Antosca, Sarah Cornwell, and Ben Ketai, raised in the story of The Forest was pure fiction. However, forests and beliefs surrounding Aokigahara real indeed. Historically in the past, forest Aokigahara touted to be the place to ubasute, an act of leaving the sick or elderly to death. Therefore, it is believed the forest inhabited by the spirits of people who abandoned it. In its development, this forest so popular site to commit suicide, even up to hundreds of bodies are found every year there.
Filming a scene in the film The Forest forest itself is not done directly in Aokigahara, because it is not authorized by local authorities. Instead, the filming took place in a national park in Serbia. However, some people from the film The Forest, including Dormer as the lead actress, had made a visit to Aokigahara for research purposes. "Actually it's a very beautiful place," said Dormer told IGN.
"There are a lot of climbers, birds chirping, the weather was very sunny, and it is located near Mount Fuji, so it is very beautiful. So I prefer to feel pity rather sad for the people who go in there and do not intend to come out again. It was wrong one reason I took the role in this film, because for me this film is the story of a man searching for his sister to stop doing things to hurt himself, "said Dormer, which makes The Forest debuted as the main actor in a movie.
