As wide as the heart is, as far as the road is

Brett 2022-04-19 09:01:35

If I didn't watch this movie, I would regret it for the rest of my life.
Angelina played from start to finish as a smart, humorous, brave, kind, strong, noble, respectable single mother who taught me a lot. For example, when the son was fighting at school, she said "never take the initiative to fight, but be a winner"; for example, when the son asked his father why he left him, she said "because on the day you were born, he (father) received a package, It's a box a little bigger than you, do you know what's in it? It's a thing called responsibility, and for some people, responsibility is the scariest thing in the world, so he chose to leave." Son Walter said disappointedly, "Oh, did he leave because there was something scary in the box, that sounds silly." What a funny and thought-provoking conversation!
I haven't read the introduction before, so Walter was killed by a juvenile serial killer, Christine was framed by the police authorities who were obsessed with profit for insisting on finding her beloved son, and was even put into a mental hospital by a deranged police officer. . . A series of tragic incidents of mother and son made me cry. Although Kerry experienced the pain of losing her child, she still fought against evil firmly, which is admirable, not to mention that the story took place in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, which was a closed-minded, information-enclosed, and power-oriented society.
The final outcome was not what I expected: the righteous triumphed over the evil, and the sinners were all punished. But I kept praying and believing that Walter was still alive, even though he didn't show up in the end. . . .

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  • Bailee 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    Falling in love with Angelina Jolie for the first time. After seemingly unrelated lines are intertwined, the film gives people one thunder after another. The first half is desperate and depressed, and the second half is angry and unbelievable. Liked the beginning, the conversation between Mrs. Collins and her son about "father", "responsibility", "fight" and "persistence".

  • Giles 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    8 points. The first half was maddening to watch. Translation: The baby is being transferred, did the translator eat shit? The 9-year-old was called a baby, and I thought I was replaced by a child in the hospital and then raised. I just watched "It Happened One Night" this morning, and this film pays tribute to that film at night, it's a coincidence

Changeling quotes

  • Detective Lester Ybarra: If that's how you want it, then I guess we're done here. Tell county jail we're remanding him for trial.

    Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I didn't do anything. I wasn't even here when it happened.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: By pretending to be Walter Collins, you're interfering in a police investigation of a kidnapping and murder. We can try you as accomplice to that murder after the fact. That's too bad. County jail is a lot worse than a juvenile hall or a foster home. It's a lot worse.

    Arthur Hutchins: You can't do that. I'm just a kid.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: Mm. Sanford Clark's a kid, too. Fifteen. He's going to jail. All murderers and their accomplices go to jail. Everybody knows that. Get him out of here. It's out of my hands now.

    Arthur Hutchins: Wait. I don't want to go to jail.

    Detective Lester Ybarra: [pause] Prove it.

    Arthur Hutchins: I... I knew Los Angeles is where they make the Tom Mix movies. I figured if I could meet Tom Mix, maybe he would let me ride on his horse. His horse is named Tony. Did you know that?

  • Dr. Jonathan Steele: According to your file, you believe that the police substituted a fake boy for your son.

    Christine Collins: No, I didn't say he was a fake boy. He's not *my* boy. They brought home the wrong boy. My son is still missing.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's strange, because I have here a newspaper article with a photo of you at the train station, welcoming home your son.

    [shows her the article]

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: That is you in the photo, isn't it?

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: So, at first, he was your son and now he's not your son. Has this been going on for a long time? People changing, becoming something other than what they are?

    Christine Collins: People don't change.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: You don't think people change?

    Christine Collins: No, that's not what I...

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Shh! The police, they're not out to persecute you?

    Christine Collins: No, they're not.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: No, they're not. The police are here to protect you.

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Really?

    Christine Collins: Yes.

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Well, that's odd, because when you were admitted, you told the head nurse that the police were conspiring *deliberately* to punish you. So, either the head nurse and the interns are also conspiring to punish you or you're changing your story.

    [pause]

    Dr. Jonathan Steele: Do you often have trouble telling reality from fantasy, Mrs. Collins?

    Christine Collins: No...