In the past two years, there have been many movies about finding children: "Dear", "Lost Orphan", "Find You", "Baby"...
These movies have received widespread attention, because children are the future of mankind, and "child protection" is always a hot topic.
The movie I will introduce to you today is also on the theme of finding missing children. At the end of the movie, the two police officers kidnapped the child, but the netizens sided with them.
The cute little girl was kidnapped, the calm town is boiling
In a quiet town in Boston, 4-year-old girl Amanda suddenly disappeared.
[Lovely Amanda]
Amanda's mother, as well as her uncle and aunt are very anxious. They live with the family, and their uncle and aunt also regard Amanda as their daughter.
A lot of people swarmed into the quiet town: police, reporters, enthusiasts...
Although the case has aroused widespread public concern, and Amanda’s message was scrolled on the TV, the police did not find any clues. The police temporarily classified the case as: kidnapping .
It has been 76 hours since Amanda was kidnapped. In order to solve the case as soon as possible, her uncle and aunt found famous private detectives in the town: Patrick and Angela.
[Patrick and Angela: both boy and girl friends, but also working partners in the private detective]
As a result, the police, private investigators, enthusiasts...all went to the court to find the kidnapped Amanda through various means.
Mother is a drug addict irresponsible, save the little girl into trouble
All kinds of resistance appeared.
The first is the child’s mother. Patrick discovered: The child’s mother, Hailin, is a drug addict, taking drugs and selling drugs, and has never taken good care of the child. On the day the child disappeared, she and her boyfriend took the child to do a drug deal, and then the child disappeared.
[Amanda's mother is an irresponsible addict]
An irresponsible mother has not fulfilled her duty of care at all. What effective information can she get from her?
Followed by the local police. The two old policemen were unfriendly to Patrick as soon as they came up, and even persuaded him to withdraw: You have no experience at all, so it's better not to mess with us! For more than 72 hours, the child will be more ill-fortuned, but now, it has been 76 hours...
[Local police officer Remy and his partner]
Private detectives are here to help detect kidnappings. Why don't the police cooperate with them?
Once again, it was the cooperation between the police and the mother of the missing child, and there was no cooperation at all! The two police officers obviously hated Amanda's mother Helene.
[The police hate this mother who lost her daughter]
But even so, Patrick still made some progress. Relying on his relationship with the three schools, he tracked down a local drug dealer. The clue pointed out: Hailin stole money from the drug dealer, and the dealer took Hailin's daughter Amanda.
[Local vicious drug dealer]
So they offered to exchange gambling money for the child, but in the end a fierce gun battle broke out. The drug dealer was killed but the child was not rescued. The clue was interrupted, and the police concluded that Amanda was dead.
But Patrick did not give up, occasionally, the clue was picked up again, but he encountered a shootout again. In the chaos, another little boy was shot and killed. He shot up the pervert that kidnapped and tortured the little boy .
[The pervert that kidnapped and abused a little boy]
The big reversal: Uncle and the police conspired to "kidnap" a little girl
Just when everyone thought that the clue was interrupted, the movie reversed again, and Patrick discovered that the child's uncle had been lying and did not tell him the whole truth.
[The child's uncle]
Digging down this clue, Patrick discovered: It was two police officers who kidnapped Amanda, and Amanda is now at the home of the retired police chief.
[Retired old director, played by Morgan Freeman]
The old director's own little daughter died in an accident. He did not have a daughter, but he liked children very much. So, Amanda's uncle, and two other police officers, took the child away and sent it to the old chief.
The reason they did this is: Everyone knows that Amanda's mother, Hailin, is a bastard and is not qualified to be a mother .
Amanda is well taken care of at the old director's house and she is very happy.
The contradiction between morality and law: Should the little girl return to her mother?
However, Patrick is caught in a contradiction: Should Amanda stay here and grow up happily? Or go back to her scumbag mother?
Morality is on one side, and law is on the other . From a moral point of view, Amanda is the best choice here. This old couple treats her very well, she is also very happy, and will grow into an excellent girl in the future.
But at the same time, Amanda is Hailin's daughter, she should return to Hailin's side, here, is kidnapped. Thirty years later, she might ask the old couple: "Why didn't you let me return to my biological mother?"
[Amanda's mother Hailin]
In the end, Patrick chose to obey the law. Amanda was taken away from the old couple and it was hard to separate, and the old couple also went to jail because of the kidnapping.
[Little girl Amanda was taken away, it’s hard to separate]
Everything calms down. Does Patrick regret his choice?
There are not so many choices in life, and the director is not a sociologist
When it comes to child protection, there are always many paradoxes, which have been constantly reflected in movies in the past two years.
Children who have been trafficked since childhood have established a deep relationship with their adoptive parents, and suddenly they are taken away from their adoptive parents to rescue them, which is likely to hurt the feelings between them and their adoptive parents, just like the movie "Dear".
Should children who are born with major physical defects insist on giving birth to them? The parents who gave birth to them were unable to raise them and cure their diseases. Is this responsible for them? Just like "Baby".
[Movie "Baby" starring Yang Mi]
At the end of the movie, Amanda returned to her mother, and her mother did not change her irresponsible character.
Looking at the child who was thrown at home again, Patrick didn't know whether he was right or wrong...
This movie has many stars, director Ben Affleck won the Oscar for Best Picture for "Escape from Tehran" , and he is the brother of the male protagonist Cassie Affleck. Casey Affleck won the Oscar winner award for "Manchester by the Sea" .
[Cassie Affleck as Patrick]
The film puts the moral and legal problems in front of the audience through a plain approach, which is thought-provoking. In many cases, there are not so many choices in life, and the director is not a sociologist .
On the other hand, some domestic movies with similar themes are either black or white, or right or evil, because the characters are too templated and they lose depth.
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