Book. Affleck, in my eyes, has always belonged to the type of actor who always fails to become popular, but it has never been silent, and the career of an actor who is about to reach mediocrity is very embarrassing, especially with his best friends. Comparing Matt Damon, you will inevitably sigh that the gap between this actor and the actor is so big, especially nowadays when people talk about Damon, and then talk about this brother, it is inevitable that the tone will change, presumably he is not happy in his heart. However, after watching "The Missing Baby", well, Mr. Affleck doesn't have to suffer from these birds anymore, let the unbearable actor experience hell, now he is a highly anticipated new star in the directing world. Although I can’t say that "The Missing Baby" is a classic, I want to say that after watching this movie, I sincerely hope that Affleck will cut off his career as an actor (to be honest, his brother Casey is better than him) and will work hard ever since. In the directing career, maybe one day he and his younger brother will win the Oscar for best director and actor awards, which is also a good story.
Of course, all those things about Oscar are just speculations. I want to say that "The Missing Baby" is the kind of film I like, with suspense, acting, thinking, and aftertaste. In terms of the story, I have to admit that I have been led by the nose by director Affleck. From the beginning of the story, it was the case of missing children that Lao Mei particularly loved. This kind of subject matter is almost indispensable in American criminal investigation TV dramas, and is commonly used in crime movies. Trick, the cute faces of children plus one or a few perverted killers can easily arouse people's emotions. What I was waiting to watch at first was a suspense film, to see which pervert kidnapped the cute girl Amanda, the pace of the story began to accelerate, and soon it seemed that the real murderer was about to surface, and the child was about to be saved, but a The "accident" turns the story around, the girl seems to have lost her life in the deep pool, and the murderer is caught in endless self-blame and pain. However, the situation soon turned around. Several perverted killers were discovered and a child was killed. It seems that they are the real killers. But Affleck turned again, and the police officers who focused all the suspicious points, could it be another one? The story of the bad cops, a tense confrontation, it seems that the bad cops are killed and everything is about to subside.
However, the biggest turning point of the film took place, and this turning point made the film different. It turned out that there was no real kidnapping, no real killing, no real bad police, but an old police officer who suffered the pain of bereavement. Save the future of a strange girl with a few colleagues who have a deep love for children. The private detective Patrick, who has been tracking the incident in the film, is facing a great moral dilemma at this time. He is to "reveal" the old police officer and return the child to a selfish, but at this time, the anxious and painful "devil mother" still forgets. All this allows her to grow up with the "strangers" who love her. When our emotions are brought to the end by this film, almost everyone thinks that Patrick should let the children grow up with the kind old police officer. However, for Patrick, this is not an easy situation. As he said, he does not want to see a child growing up in a strange family. The child should return to his mother's embrace. At this time, he should also realize that the child is in the old police officer. He will be better taken care of here, but he still looks forward to it, hoping that Amanda's mother will be able to get better and love her daughter after undergoing a "bereavement" that has almost become a reality. Maybe we can’t be too harsh on Patrick, a young man with a good hope for life, although to some extent he has put kind people in jail, killed, broke up with his girlfriend, and Amanda’s mother has no intention of repentance. , The poor girl's future is uncertain. The final dialogue between Patrick and the old police officer is a dialogue between good hope and cruel reality. One is a young man who still has hope for life and humanity; the other is an old man with rich experience, he has insight into the hearts of the people. He is more conscious of human nature, or more desperate. In the end, we found that the desperate party had a better insight into the reality of society. Perhaps Patrick had to abandon idealistic elements and matured cruelly while he was lost. Perhaps he would be the same as someone who came over one day. Say to a passionate young man, "You don't know what I have experienced."
Whether good deeds must lead to good results, unfortunately, we often find that this is not the case. For example, a group of passionate young people exposed a "criminal factory" in a village, but the good results did not come, the factory moved, the villagers were unemployed, and they Faced with "childish" self-blame; for example, some kind people want to find the media to expose a carefree husband, but the result is to accelerate the separation of a family, but the wife, husband, and children have no sense of relief. The most similar situation to this film is to rescue the kidnapped children. Some young kidnapped children were rescued after two or three years. They have just adjusted to the new environment and have just met their parents who treated them well in many situations. Forged affection, but had to adapt to the unfamiliar biological parents. So although the mainstream media usually avoids some embarrassing scenes deliberately, we can still find that some adoptive parents who buy children are heartbroken from the same tearful children, and the children return to their parents. The helpless look in his eyes was also traumatic. But how can this be? In the face of a similar situation, how to tell the relevant police officers how to make a decision, they also have to let the children return to their parents like Patrick, as for the future development of the children can only be dominated by fate. Good deeds often face moral dilemmas. There were in the past, there will be today, and there will be in the future. We should not blame some benevolents for their unpredictable endings at first. Everyone has their own position. We still call for kind motives and be more considerate. Reasonable actions, of course, also have the social environment and mechanisms that can lead good deeds to good results.
"The Missing Baby" is undoubtedly a delightful work for someone like me who is somewhat prejudiced against Affleck. When I watch the film, I sink into it all the time. At the same time, Ben was still showing his talent as a director and gave his younger brother Casey a chance to show off his acting skills. With the addition of "Death of the Sharpshooter", Casey's momentum in 2007 was strong enough and I believe he will continue it. The most memorable thing is Patrick’s confused look. In the end, when he sits side by side with the child whose future is uncertain, the film also ends in melancholy. What is left is the helplessness and hard work of people under the moral dilemma, fearing that such a movie will stay. A film with an aftertaste does have a prospect worth looking forward to. Welcome to pay attention to the official account: two or three things about movies, ID: aboutfilms
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