First of all, the theme based on real events is always shocking. The story takes place in Los Angeles in 1928. The tone of the entire film has been particularly dark until the truth is finally revealed. Only then did a touch of sunlight appear.
Secondly, the ending of the story is not all happy, the grieving mother searches her whole life, and there is no trace of her child until she dies, although she always believes that her child has escaped and lived somewhere else. A strong and paranoid mother can be difficult for some people to understand, but it is because of her paranoia that she even got the state government to change the law. Let those who try to cover up the truth be demoted, and those who go to jail go to jail. Her bravery has benefited many mothers in the future.
The incident itself is not complicated. [The film is adapted from a true event (the chicken coop murder case). A single working-class woman, Christine Collins, left her child at home due to overtime, and her son disappeared when she returned home. The police first refused to accept the report within 24 hours, and then the case was slow to progress. The already notorious Los Angeles police are now being questioned by the public for their ability to work. It was not until 5 months later that the police suddenly told Christine to help her find her son and brought a team of media to the train station to pick him up. Although Christine knew at the time that the boy was not his own son, the little boy kept insisting that it was her son. Chang also tried his best to persuade him that he might have been away from his son for too long and could not recognize him. In this way, the newspapers were full of news of the mother and son reunion, and the Los Angeles police also saved some face. However, Christine determined that the child must not be hers based on her height, foreskin, and the judgment of the dentist and teacher. She hoped that the police would continue to find her son, but she was rejected, and she was put in a lunatic asylum as a mental illness. ]
However, this is not the point of the event, and the film adaptation is not to tell people that there is an infatuated mother who is persistently searching for her son until she dies, in order to praise how great a mother's love is.
The real focus and its core is that the police station that is supposed to serve the people becomes the representative of the powerful here. They are more concerned with the result than the process. For the missing people, it seems that finding is the victory, the end, not the saying What was found, and whether the real victim was found.
When there are various signs that their judgments are wrong, what they do is not to correct their mistakes in time, but to use all means to deny, suppress, and even send the reporters who challenge their authority directly to a mental hospital.
It is the most terrifying thing when there is a mistake in the power supervision and it is not stopped, and for the sake of the so-called honor or face, it is the most terrible thing to cover up the ultimate stupidity with one lie after another.
It is not the mother who lost a child, but the cup of justice and hope that covers up, and eventually leads to an unknowable dark future. Fortunately, at the end of the film, the mother who is locked in a mental hospital is released, and her biggest credit is forcing a change in legislation. Or we can simply and cruelly say that because of her perseverance in finding lost children, more children have been prevented from being maimed and trafficked in the future. In our grandiose parlance, mothers save more.
The film has a warm ending. The hard-working mother also invites friends for dinner on holidays and bets with her friends on who will win the upcoming Oscars. The director tries to use this to tell us warmly that this is a brave and great mother. , Although she did not stop looking for her lost son, she did not give up her life because of it. , No matter how hard you get hit, life always has to go on.
Throughout her life, her son was never heard from again, and her mother never gave up searching. Perhaps until the end of her life, the ending of disappearance is better than murder, like a little greenery in the desert. Maybe that brave child has been rescued and lives happily in another place... We are all willing to believe, and would rather believe that even if we can't meet in this life, assuming that he can survive on the same earth, our hearts can't help but feel a lot warmer.
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