Dec
04
2008
Dir: Clint Eastwood
Writ: J. Michael Straczynski - based on a true story
- Angelina Jolie … Christine Collins
- John Malkovich … Rev. Gustav Briegleb
- Colm Feore … Chief James E. Davis
- Jeffrey Donovan … Capt. J.J. Jones
- Wendy Worthington … Reception Nurse
- Riki Lindhome … Examination Nurse
It is 1920’s Los Angeles and single mother Christine Collins is trying to raise her boy[1] One Sat she is called in to work and when she returns home little Walter Collins is nowhere to be found. The police set about looking[2] and eventually, after 5 months they bring him back. Only the boy they return to Christine is different; she is, however, informed that those changes are the result of her shock and the boys trauma. Why it is quite the done thing for a boy to shrink 4 inches as a result of such a horrifying encounter. And circumcised now you say? Well it is healthy, and who knows what that drifter may have been thinking. Ms. Collins is not about to rest however. She wants her boy back[3] Continue Reading »
Linknotes:
- you will hear this phrase *my boy* and *my son* over and over. This is just to introduce the phrase to yall ↩
- after the procedural 24 hours have passed of course ↩
- - Waaaaaallllttt! ↩
Tags:
1920s,
7 Stars,
abduction,
America - 1920s,
America - LA,
Angelina Jolie,
based on true story,
Changeling,
Clint Eastwood,
Colm Feore,
corrupt police,
crime,
drama,
feminism,
Gordon Stewart Northcott,
J. Michael Straczynski,
Jeffrey Donovan,
John Malkovich,
kidnapping,
murder,
R16,
Riki Lindhome,
role of women,
Wendy Worthington,
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders,
women in society
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Jun
24
2006
Dir: Ken Loach
Writ: Paul Laverty
- Cillian Murphy - Damien
- Pádraic Delaney - Teddy
- Liam Cunningham - Dan
- Orla Fitzgerald - Sinead
- Myles Horgan - Rory
Opening with a hurling scene in Cork in the 1920’s this film lives entirely within the experience of the main character, Damien. A young doctor about to leave Ireland for a career in London he is pulled into the Irish War of Independence. And this film is about his fight. The film starts without any introductory text, there is no attempt made to make the viewer aware of the wider world, this is Damien’s story and only his story.
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Tags:
10 Stars,
1920s,
brother against brother,
C20th,
Cillian Murphy,
death,
historical fiction,
Ireland - civil war,
Ireland - war of independence,
irish history,
Ken Loach,
Liam Cunningham,
Myles Horgan,
Orla Fitzgerald,
Paul Laverty,
Pádraic Delaney,
The Wind That Shakes The Barley,
torture
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