Review of Changeling (2008) by Rorshach S — 23 Mar 2014

A beautiful movie by the master Clint Eastwood, from a true sad story.

The most touching movie I saw since years.

My eyes were wet a few times.

Angelina is beautiful and great, and she deserves prices for this job. I hope she'll at least be nominated for the Oscars. Otherways, it'll be one of the biggest shame of history for the Academy. A huge forgetting, mistake.

The characters of the Changeling are developed in a very interesting way.

You love with passion the good ones, and hate with the same passion the others.

It's interesting when you know they are (or were) real people.

I dislike the 20's touch. The style of their clothes, cars, objects like phones, or the architecture.

But seeing this movie, I almost really liked these, cause the almost perfection of the film made me like everything in; or almost.

This is terrible to see how a captain of police could send someone in an institution so easily, just cause that person could disturb him.

And terrible also how they treated people in those institutions.

Cool to see that this story made things change.

At least in USA, cause in countries like Russia, they still use institutions to get rid of people who disagree with the russian politic. And same in several other countries.

This story of a serial killer who kidnapped young boys to kill them is awful, and we don't really understand his motive. He was probably just a crazy son of a bitch.

Awful also to stay in the doubt at the end, asking us if Angelina's son is still alive or not.

Clint very rarely disappointed me as an actor or director. This is definitely NOT 1 of these rare occasions. He's a living god in his work. Let's hope he'll continue a lot of years more to make movies; also as an actor I hope.