We have no right to make the best choice for others

Thurman 2022-03-15 09:01:02

When I watched it, I had the same thoughts as the male protagonist’s girlfriend. The child lives in a retired police family with adoptive parents who dote on him. After returning home, there is only one mother in the family who has no stable income and has a history of alcoholism and drug addiction. Compared with the former, it can make children happier. I'm not as pessimistic as that girlfriend, thinking that bad people will never get better, but I can't be pessimistic about this mother, even if she might get better, but who will take the responsibility of the mother still go its own way and make the child ten The risk of becoming a sister in a few years? Can the male lead afford it? So when the male protagonist chose to call the police, I couldn't believe it was true. I thought it was a pre-set image in his mind, but it wasn't. The fact is that the child was sent back to the mother, the uncle and the police involved in the case were also put in jail, and the male protagonist's girlfriend also left him. If the movie is here, this is a good crime movie. At least I guessed Remi and my uncle, but I didn't guess the big boss behind. Although the ending was not satisfactory, the male protagonist made a righteous choice.

However, the ending pushed the story back a little bit, allowing the male protagonist and us to see the price the male protagonist paid for justice: the burden of his girlfriend who was never seen again and the child he rescued. He insisted on justice, so he needs to endure these. This ending not only elevates the image of the male protagonist, but also relieves me a little: look, this is the consequence, if the child does not come back, your family is happy, the child's uncle The family is happy, the police family is happy, and the children are also happy. As for the mother of the child, she already has the death certificate of the child, time will dilute everything, and a happy ending is enough for a person's unhappiness.

I have to admit that the next second I was relieved, I began to reflect on my selfishness. As long as the child is alive, but not by the mother's side, there will never be enough or forgetting for the mother. Why should we decide the future of the child for the mother? If the mother doesn't care about the child, who can understand the mother's loss of the child? It hurts.

The ending is why I add an extra star, it tells people the price of justice, and how people choose is up to themselves.

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Extended Reading
  • Braeden 2021-10-21 15:30:23

    An extremely stunning directorial debut: the setting of suspense, the dismantling of flaws, the entanglement of morals and legal principles, the plot is full of tension, and every detail is so precise. The feeling of sorrow at the ending is really to my liking.

  • Estefania 2022-03-19 09:01:03

    Ben Affleck didn't start low

Gone Baby Gone quotes

  • Officer in Procession: [approaching Patrick and shaking his hand] Mr. Kenzie. Nice fucking job on Corwin Earle.

  • Patrick Kenzie: I'm calling state police in five minutes. They'll be here in ten.

    Capt. Jack Doyle: Thought you would've done that by now. You know why you haven't? Because you think this might be an irreparable mistake. Because deep inside you, you know it doesn't matter what the rules say. When the lights go out, and you ask yourself "is she better off here or better off there", you know the answer. And you always will. You... you could do a right thing here. A good thing. Men live their whole lives without getting this chance. You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will. I'll be dead, you'll be old. But she... she'll be dragging around a couple of tattered, damaged children of her own, and you'll be the one who has to tell them you're sorry.

    Patrick Kenzie: You know what? Maybe that'll happen. And if it does, I'll tell them I'm sorry and I'll live with it. But what's never gonna happen and what I'm not gonna do is have to apologize to a grown woman who comes to me and says: "I was kidnapped when I was a little girl, and my aunt hired you to find me. And you did, you found me with some strange family. But you broke your promise and you left me there. Why? Why didn't you bring me home? Because all the snacks and the outfits and the family trips don't matter. They stole me. It wasn't my family and you knew about it and you knew better and you did nothing". And maybe that grown woman will forgive me, but I'll never forgive myself.

    Capt. Jack Doyle: I did what I did for the sake of the child. All right. For me, too. But now, I'm asking you for the sake of the child. I'm begging you. You think about it.