1928. Single mom. "The day you were born, your father got another package, too... responsibility." He ran off. "I have to go to work for a few hours".Walter... Walter! .....Walter. It's time to come in, honey. "Susie, have you seen Walter?"
Pastor Malkovich: "Given the Los Angeles Police Department is the most incompetent organization this side of the Rocky Mountains... corruption... our protectors have become our brutalizers... where to be the law is to be above the law..."
Mrs. Collins, your son is alive, and he's in DeKalb, Illinois. "That's my mommy". "Mrs. Collins, that is your son." "This is your son. I give you my word. The Los Angeles Police Department is proud of it's success."
"Who are you?" "He's three inches shorter. He's not my son."
Pastor Malkovich: "You are in a position to discredit the police, and they don't want to let you do it". "Take your case public".
Psychiatric hospital for you, Angelina. That's how the police do it. Can't make fools of the police. You're a code 12. You ticked off the cops. "Who you gonna listen to? Some crazy woman, or the cops"?
"We killed twenty of them. Kids."
"Mrs. Collins, you're free to leave".
"I didn't start it, but I'm gonna finish it."
This is an attempted assassination movie. The LAPD reputation is all but dead.
For a true story, this film was slow and lacking genius, but it has a populist attraction. Nobody took the care to say it was only a few bad apples in the police department. Oh, well. Even headliners like Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich couldn't save this 6.0 movie. Go ahead with the noose.
Whoa!!! There's more. "They found a boy, Christine." But, it's not Walter. Not yet. Jerk me a big tear, Changeling.
1 comment:
As usual, my counterpart reviewer has allowed small, irrelevant movie flaws to cloud his reviewing judgement.
If you can call what he typed a review. It seems he was sitting in front of his computer during the movie and just typing the main points of the movie. There is no review, no rating, no idea expansion or thought at all put into it.
That said, my thoughts on changling are powerful. That the people allowed the LAPD to get so corrupted and allowed them to control so deeply the people they were to protect is astounding.
I was impressed with the settings, scenery and sets that brought the movie goer back to the 1920's and 30's.
Angelina does a good job of showing her grief (although the actions that allowed her child to disappear were not those of a concerned mother) and fighting the corrupt government.
The ending is good because it is opened ended and allows the goer to imagine a bit.
Overall, I was kept interested, intrigued and guessing during Changling and I thought it was a good interpretation of the story.
Changling gets an 8.5.
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