Monday, March 31, 2008

Gone Baby Gone

A couple of days ago I watched this film that was known as Ben Affleck's directorial debut: Gone Baby Gone, a movie about two Boston area detectives investigating the kidnapping of a little girl. Trailer is posted below:



The only notable thing I really found of this movie is its plot, which conludes quite controversially. What is eventually revealed is that the kidnapping is in fact a conspiracy--that the Chief of Police himself (played by Morgan Freeman) kidnapped the little girl to save her from living a life with a neglectful and drug-addicted mother. But when the young detective Patrick (played by Casey Affleck) finds out, he turns in Morgan Freeman's character, thus having the girl returned back to her mother.

People have argued over whether what Patrcik did was morally right--is it ok to report a crime even if its end result is good? Patrick decided that it was the right thing to do, even if that meant having the girl grow up in a bad environment, but I am not so sure...I saw this as a lose-lose situation. The mother seemed so incredibly unfit to raise her daughter, but at the same time, Morgan Freeman's character broke the law as well as put so many lives in jeopardy by arranging this kidnapping that it makes you ask why on earth could he not have just simply requested to adopt the child? Because it makes for a good story? Not a good enough reason, in my view.

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