Changeling

Changeling

 

This movie is so good and powerful. A wonderful drama, which I felt, should have been nominated for best picture, and Angelina Jolie should have won best actress. Before I start this review, I highly recommend you see this movie, but it is heavy to watch.

 

Directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who did award wining movie Gran Tranio recently, directed this movie about the corrupt LAPD and child abduction in 1928. Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) is a single mother with a son Walter living in LA. One day she needs to go into work, and decides to leave her son

 home alone for a couple of hours. When she returns he is gone. She calls the police, and they were not very much help to her at all. After some months had gone by, the LAPD provide her with a child. They tell the press and everyone that they found her kid Walter, and Christine knows it isn’t her child. She tries to tell the LAPD that this isn’t her child, and they try to convince her that she is just not use to having a kid around, despite the fact that the kid is 3 inches shorter than her kid and that he was circumcised. Since the LAPD wont listen to her, Rev. Gustav A. Briegleb (John Malkovich) takes her case and gets all the help for her that he can. He has a personal vendetta against the LAPD, and has a radio talk show on 

how corrupt they are. To make sure Christine shuts up and avoid getting any more bad press about finding the wrong kid, they throw her in a mental institute to make the public believe that she is crazy and full of lies. Then an amazing discovery happens when a kid comes forward about an awful thing that has been going on in riverside, and Christine is released. She decides to sue the police department for lying to her and the city, and finds the best lawyer in the county and gets him to do the work pro bono. I don’t want to give away any more of the movie. But it is amazing, and a tearjerker and so powerful. The hardest part is that it is a true story.

 

John Malkovich and Angelina Jolie were so good together. You love their characters, especially Malkovich who is such a powerhouse in the movie. You love his character. This is some of the best acting I have ever seen by Jolie before, and she played a really good mother. She was very convincing for a woman in the 1928, and she looked awesome with all of her outfits. The movie is a bit long, but you are drawn into the story the whole time. Worth the time to watch.

 

 The movie is rated R because of the subject matter. It is very hard to watch. There is only one F word, and it was very called for at the moment when used. But the subject matter has to do with many children being murdered. In all honesty, I think it should be PG-13. I think this is a very good movie that everyone should see, but not with children. Get it on redbox or something. A free promo code you could use for it is “breakroom” Do it!