换子疑云 Changeling8.4

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• 来自网友【他他】的评论Industriously re-constructing a factual simulacrum of the true story of Christine Collins, a Depression-era single mother in L.A., whose unrelenting pursuit of her missing son would instigate a profound change in redressing LAPD's rampant corruption and maltreatment of independent women who dare to question their authority, Clint Eastwood's CHANGELING is a rousing testament of women empowerment, a harrowing crime mystery and an appreciable showcase for its star Angelina Jolie to exhibit her acting prowess.Distraught after her 9-year-old son Walter (Griffith) goes missing, Christine's apprehensive elation is dashed when the son whom the police claims to find turns out to be an imposter, and her consequential plea to keep looking for Walter hits a brick wall because the law refuses to acknowledge their mistake and Christine is arbitrarily dispatched to be cooped up in a psychopathic ward without a warrant. When a parallel investigation reveals that Walter is very likely a victim of a child murderer, Christine, rescued by Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich) from the ward, wages a crusade against the law enforcement's wrongdoing and corruption, and hope against hope, she never stops searching for her son.Eastwood is a dab hand at concocting the period look and palette, his frippery-free direction, coupled with his jazz-saturated score and Tom Stern's aesthetically muted cinematography, secures that the film is an up-to-par, orthodox melodrama can keep spectators rapt. By and large CHANGELING is a hallmark Hollywood mainstream production premised on a horrific yet inspiring true story, but it is also roundly black-and-white in its personages' characterization, every character is either good or bad (Jeffrey Donovan's Captain Jones is an abomination whereas Amy Ryan's member of the oldest profession, a godsend), no gray area is left to explore among them. Straczynski punctiliously hammers out an exhaustively fact-based script, yet nuance is clearly not his bailiwick.For the penny dreadful part, aka, the heinous 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in Mira Loma, California, to which Walter's disappearance is ascribed, CHANGELING doesn't go for the whole hog, it is Christine's quiet resilience and maternal devotion to be fêted here, and not a true-crime procedural trying to demystify the most appalling sickness in humanity. That said, it does leave some unquenched thirst, a morbid fascination toward the culprit Gordon Stewart Northcott (Harner, stoutheartedly transforming himself into a twisted soul). How a monster is born? That is a juicy story for Ryan Murphy's anthology series "Monster".Jolie, tricked out with a potpourri of exquisite millinery, calls forth a very compelling impression of a woman in distress and remarkably refrains from letting a hardened badassery (the image audience rather familiar with) emerge out of Christine' meek, passive persona. Even when she finally roars, after realizing a closure is unforthcoming from Gordon, it is the eruption of irrepressible ire rather than malice. Jolie injects plenty of pathos and dignity into Christine's ordeal, for once, she busts her chops to remind the world, before becoming a mega cinematic action star, she is an Academy Award winning actor, which is opportune to fan our excitement and raise the expectation bar toward her upcoming Maria Callas biopic directed by Pablo Larraín, a third Oscar nomination looks propitious.referential entries: Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL (2019, 6.8/10), MYSTIC RIVER (2003, 8.9/10).Title: ChangelingYear: 2008Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography, MysteryCountry: USALanguage: EnglishDirector/Music: Clint EastwoodScreenwriter: J. Michael StraczynskiCinematography: Tom SternEditors: Joel Cox, Gary RoachCast:Angelina JolieJeffrey DonovanJohn MalkovichMichael KellyJason Butler HarnerEddie AldersonDevon ContiGattlin GriffithColm FeoreAmy RyanDenis O'HareRiki LindhomeWendy WorthingtonGeoff PiersonPeter GeretyFrank WoodReed BirneyDale DickeyAsher AxeRating: 7.7/10
• 来自网友【独乐乐】的评论原来2011年看过这部电影喂。那时候帖的标签是“毛骨”，毛骨悚然的意思。短评是“突然觉得中国政法虽乱，但不至于。”哈哈。这是35岁+的我，对十二年前的评语的态度。我确实没有经历过这样的事情。我的身边，也没有人经历过这样的事情。但我还是保留一点空间，给自己不知道但可能存在的事件。而这“可能”，也不是无迹可寻。8娃母亲，算不算？那些旷日持久后平反的冤假错案，算不算？还有扫黑除恶纪录片里的事情，算不算呢？可笑的是，值得安慰的是，这不是只发生在一地一国的事情。在人类的组织架构下，在任何文化和土地上，都“可能”，或者是，曾经或正在发生这种事。巴以冲突、俄乌战争......只不过在战争中，它显得不荒谬。而在和平年代，在法治和法制下，它格外荒谬。可就是这种强烈的荒谬感，多少人悄无声息的将其吞咽，咀嚼，内化，然后传承。这也是文脉的一种呢。