The other weekend I was at home and got bored so I decided to go to the movies before my poker date with some of my old friends. So without any planning I got to the cinema and look at the screen and decide to avoid all the hot seated movie. And got myself a ticket that almost no one want to watch.
Changeling, the Cinema is showing some of the most current OSCAR nominated movies.
I don’t know about Angelina Jolie performance if you ask me. It is as good as any of Clint Eastwood movie as it is all the time. It is dated and character driven.
The story first begins with the bonding of the mother and the child. Then the mother hard working result in the missing of the child. There’s the fight to search for the son at first. Then the story advance into the corruption and incompetent of the police that result in misidentifying the missing child and frame the mother into admitting the wrong child as her own son. By which now the forces are doing all they can to cover the mistake and keep pushing the mother and in the end locking her up into an asylum to avoid her becoming the whistle blower.
Like any Clint Eastwood story, there’s always a twist in the end. Finally another case is link to the child. And serial killer that pick up kids and killed them in his barn. And dutiful policeman in the end broke the news and consequentially lead to the clue of the demise of the child.
When the killer goes on trial and the police department is taken into questioning and convicted and removed from their position, the crowd actually clapped in the cinema.
Of course even with the killer gone and the unfortunate or maybe fortunate closure to the case, the mother still wouldn’t give up the search for her son…… there’s still another twist in the end that I think should remain unsaid. Because this is what Mr Eastwood does best with his films. The style maybe old but it works. It makes you just want the story to go on. And see what happens next.
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