Changeling (DVD, 2008)

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von jilstoc12. Feb. 2016

A bizarre true story

You couldn't make this stuff up. A truly bizarre story that really happened. So bizarre, I had to google the story just to see if the movie was being true to the actual story or embellished by Hollywood. Well, it kept true to the real story.
1920s Los Angeles. The LA police dept. is very corrupt and have ways of "hushing up" people that could expose them or embarrass them. For women, this means being escorted to a women's sanitarium and deemed crazy.
Angelia Jolie plays a single mom who's only son is abducted. Months later, a boy is found that claims to be her missing son. Only, the mom sees him and claims he's not her son. The LA police were taking a lot of hero praise for reuniting mother and son and insist the boy is hers, he says he's hers, and she's just confused. She takes him in anyway, knowing he's not her son, but continues to pressure police into continuing the search for real, still missing, son. She even gathers witnesses to confirm the mystery boy is not her son.
The police, continue to argue that the boy is hers and accuse her of being a bad mother trying to unload her son and her responsibility as a parent. The more she pushes the police, the more they push back until they finally put her away in the women's sanitarium.
Now enter the real kidnapper. He preys on young boys, lures them into his truck, and drives them out to his "chicken farm" where he locks them up in a coop. He systematically murders these young boys. Her son is one of them.
So who is this mystery boy that claims he's her son? He's a runaway, that read about the story in the newspapers and always wanted to go to Hollywood to meet his movie hero. So, he ran away from home, got rides from strangers and then claimed to be the missing boy from the newspapers to get the rest of the way to Hollywood. Once there, he just played the part of the missing boy in order to hopefully meet his favorite actor.
Once all the corruption and lies is exposed, and the kidnapper is caught and his crimes exposed, the mom sues the police dept. and then goes in to another court room to watch the trial of her son's kidnapper/murderer. But, she never lost hope that her son may have escaped and is out there wondering around frightened. To the day she died, she never stopped hoping and looking for her son.
A sad, bizarre story that is too incredible to believe, yet, it all actually happened.Vollständige Rezension lesen

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