The first time I heard about this film was because of Ben Affleck's debut. Later, I saw the adaptation of Dennis Lehane's original work and I was moved a little bit. Later, maybe I remembered it by accident and simply downloaded it. Truly an independent masterpiece.
Casey Affleck and his brother are the same but not very different. They are both handsome, but Big Ben's performance is a little clumsy because of his tall body and long-term facial paralysis. Little Casey's baby face and rich performances It made him seem extra shrewd.
Casey turns into a private detective Patrick in the play, with a vague southern accent, not too enthusiastic but never cold, quite a shadow of Matthew McConaughey (by the way, they are in interstellar. play father and son).
The story still takes place in Lehan's Boston.
Private detective Patrick and his girlfriend Angie are entrusted to investigate the disappearance of children, but after some investigation, the outcome is unexpected. Patrick is a shrewd guy, he figured out the truth of the girl's disappearance, and finally, under the inexorable idea of the law, gave the child back to the mother - a drug addict who ignores his daughter, giving the child to others all day long, A woman who indulges in drugs, tobacco and alcohol every day. Such a crime film hides a heart to explore "what is justice".
Everyone hated the pedophile who killed the little boy and thought he deserved it for being shot by Patrick, while almost everyone ignored the fact that Amanda's mother was irresponsible. (The media just played up how "grieved" the mother was, and bystanders didn't care about the girl's disappearance.)
Only those "good people" cared about the child's future.
However, these "good people" also died and two went to jail. This quite perfect "rescue" plan for the little girl completely failed, and everything went back to the starting point.
At the end, Patrick pointed to Amanda's doll and asked, is that Mirabell?
The girl denied it, saying, this is Annabelle.
For Amanda, this journey is just a change of doll, like her mother changed a dress, changed a date and moved on. Life is back to where it started.
Patrick just looked blank. He didn't know if he was wrong. Although he knew that his series of actions had killed four good people, and he had also lost his girlfriend and sweet days, maybe a few years later, a tattooed woman who was addicted to drugs would cry and hold him and say, "It was you who called the police back then. The phone ruined my life." Or maybe not.
Life has to go on, it won't stop in the slightest. It's just that everyone doesn't realize that life is not a straight line, but a circle, going back and forth, going back and forth, just like the title of the movie - Gone Baby Gone, originally "Goodbye, baby, goodbye", but it can also be extended to disappearance 's child disappeared again, the first disappearance from the mother, the second disappearance is the child from a beautiful and peaceful life - from "love".
It will happen again, because it is part of life, and it goes on, goes on, goes on, goes on, goes with life.
Suddenly there is a little melancholy. Children are pure, innocent, and pure. Adults know that hurting children is the most shameful and inhumane, but they don't know that children's fate has already been quietly changed in their conscious or unintentional choices. The loss of a bright future for these children is the greatest harm that adults have done to them.
Why are people so irresponsible all the time? This is true for adults and young people alike.
For example, I suddenly discovered today that people often say "the reality is like this" or "there is no way it can only be like this", what an irresponsible answer, and a statement that doesn't care about the listeners.
He thought he had a deep understanding of everything, saw the so-called "dark and realistic" truth, and responded to the distress of others casually and selfishly.
I thought it was comfort, but it was actually a pinch of salt on the wound.
But that's how people are, isn't it, that's how people are used to hurting others unconsciously.
That's life - people go back and forth, over and over again - to please themselves and to hurt others.
Ps Ben Affleck's literary fan is open, no one can stop it. Excellent directorial debut, Big Ben has already paved the way for the success of "Escape from Tehran".
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