I recently went to the cinema filled by curiosity about the movie that Angelina Jolie is the main protagonist; Changeling. And the result? Well, i was really satissfied and i rate it with a maximum of 9 out of 10.
I found the movie worth watching with very strong interpretations from all the actors. But first of all lets take it from the beginning. The movie is based on a true story that took place in Los Angeles around 1928 when on a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and left for work. When she came home, she discovered he had vanished.
So, after her son dissappeared, she called the police and did whatever possible to find him, but nothing happened until months later, where a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old Walter is returned. Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters and her conflicted emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.
In fact, before Walter was lost, she had measured his height and the boy she had with her now was shorter than her real son. She even went to the dentist who assured her that this boy was a different one than her own and the same thing was told by his son's teacher who assured her that this boy was not Walter but a different one.
So, Christine, went again to the police to tell them that they had been wrong and this boy wasn't hers. But the police now did not want to admit their fault. As she pushes authorities to keep looking, she learns that in Prohibition-era L.A., women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit, Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy.
However, when Christine, went to the media to tell that the police has brought back the wrong boy, the police in charge, put her in a hospital for mentally crazy people, trying to make her seem like a crazy mother who has delussions and cannot take care of her own child. Christine, is now closed in there and nobody can help her ...
In the meanwhile, another police investigator who looks for lost boys around the country, caught a boy in the dessert who could not stay any more at the country. But after a while, the boy tells him that he is a murderer and he will go to hell because he killed some boys with his cousin. The policeman then discovers that among those killed boys might be the nine year old Walter ...
After a week in the hospital, Christine manages to get out with the help of Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich). But then she learns that her son might have been murdered ...
It is then that the people in California started protesting against the California's legal system which was really corrupted. Lots of people went to strikes at the streets and everybody learned about Christine's story ...
Then Christine, with the help of the best lawyer in the city decided to sue the police ... and so the story goes. You really have to watch the movie. Even though it is a dramatic movie it is worthwile to watch from the beginning until the end :)
5 years ago
