Captain: Thought you would’ve done that by now.

At least those mothers are doing something that’s debated upon. Filming took place on site in Boston (mainly South Boston) and extras were often local passers-by. It is not a right choice for the reason’s you talked about. I just watched it. I remember being 8 years old when I first found out about “social services”. As another person said, this cop killed people to get this little girl. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets littered with broken families, hearts, dreams. You were wrong and you caused a hell of a lot of damage for doing what you believed was “the right thing”.

But the main thing is you did a job that very few of us could do, and have to accept the outcomes that weren’t as ideal as you would of liked because in the end you are fallible and just did the best you could with the knowledge you had at the time. [3] The Malaysian release was originally set for September 20, 2007, but was postponed to March 27, 2008, due to the kidnapping and murder of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin.

They stole me. The laws and rules know what is right and what is wrong. When four year old Amanda McCready goes missing, and the police make little headway in solving the case, the family hire Private Investigators (and partners) Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro to assist the with the investigation. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. | Kenzie enters the house and finds one of the residents dead. It’s what he does in the aftermath of his decision that matters. Enter the slippery slope: if every cop operated on this type of “moral compass,” then how could they be trusted to do their jobs? You’re a badass man. Change ). Then to sooth her pain, instead of taking her to the doctor. He was just not smart enough to understand that.

The girl's aunt Bea (Amy Madigan) and uncle Lionel (Titus Welliver) hire them to find Amanda. This is not about “what if everybody did this”, this is about YOU, just you, and what you chose to do in that moment. Instead he returned the kid to his horrific, abusive, negligent mother out of a misguided need to “do the right thing.” He reminds me of the sort of person who would sit at a broken red light for 30 minutes straight, even if he could see miles in each direction and see that no one was coming. This is no easy decision.

The critical consensus states that "Ben Affleck proves his directing credentials in this gripping dramatic thriller, drawing strong performances from the excellent cast and bringing working-class Boston to the screen.

Patrick meets with Cheese and tries to negotiate the return of Cheese's stolen money in exchange for Amanda, but Cheese initially denies any involvement in the girl's disappearance. And that’s all that should matter. Other locations used include the former Quincy Quarries. His girlfriend believes he should keep mum and let her stay, but Patrick believes that would be the wrong thing.

Because all the snacks and the outfits and the family trips don’t matter. Let me start off by saying I did not see the movie, but I read the book so I am unaware of any differences between the two. Also–the mother, Bea, and others think that this little girl died!

After his funeral, Patrick speaks to a police officer named Devin who tells him that Remy had known about Cheese's stolen money before Cheese even knew it was missing. That is why god made men stronger and women softer.

sob! How could they be trusted at all? In the film just as it is in the real world there is no way of knowing whether Patrick decreased Amanda’s “sum total of happiness” except in hindsight. And maybe that grown woman will forgive me, but I’ll never forgive myself. Or let’s say his friend was dying in the parking lot and he ran into the store to get some life saving material but forgot his wallet- he’s the type of person that wouldn’t simply steal the items to save his life. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) witness a televised plea for Amanda's return by her mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), amid a media frenzy. The guy saw Helene on some TV appearances, so she is clearly benefitting from her daughter’s abduction. He finds the child molester in the room and the boy's dead body in the bathroom, and kills the child molester. Thank you so much for your comments! Captain: I did what I did for the sake of the child. I still say he made the wrong decision. On the other hand if you more realistically answered no, how motivating was quilt for you to correct your mistakes? Patrick: My priest says shame is god telling you what you did was wrong. Amanda’s uncle, who conceived this plan to take Amanda away, tells a story of how she left her three-year old locked in a hot car for hours, leaving her literally roasting. When other’s only care about how Amanda could be effected by Patrick’s decision you see how everyone could be effected by Patrick’s decision. He screwed up. Motherhood, and parenting in general, is complicated. In a run-down neighborhood in Dorchester, Boston, three-year-old Amanda McCready has been abducted along with her favorite doll, Mirabelle.

They are seen by the residents and Nick is shot. Patrick offers to babysit and sits on the couch by her. With Amanda, he did the opposite, playing by the rules and keeping his emotions in check. Anyone who thinks he did the right thing doesn’t just have an interesting difference of opinion- they’re objectively wrong in this case. Moreover, Patrick is nobody to decide to Amanda to decide whats best for her and try to have his say in her future, he just did whats best in nature, handover the child to her mother.

Right or wrong Patrick decided that Amanda should be with her mother. The film stars Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as two private investigators hunting for a young girl abducted from her single mother's apartment in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Didn’t he deserve to be killed?

Gone Baby Gone features a compelling protagonist, Casey Afleck who plays Patrick, a street-wise private detective. Nick dies of his injuries. "[7] Patrick Radden Keefe criticized the film for overstating the case in an otherwise laudable attempt to "capture Boston in all its sordid glory," writing that "The result is not so much what Mean Streets did for New York as what Deliverance did for Appalachia."[8]. Eventually Patrick discovers Amanda alive and well living with Captain Doyle, played by Morgan Freeman. Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, goes into early retirement following public outcry over the mishap. Excellent, excellent analysis and viewpoint! After discovering Ray has been murdered by Cheese's men, Patrick and Angie join detectives Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and his partner Nick in investigating the case. Patrick threatens to call the authorities but Doyle tries to convince him that Amanda is better off living with him than with her neglectful mother.

Using his connections in the Boston crime underground, Patrick discovers that Helene and her boyfriend "Skinny Ray" were drug mules for a local Haitian drug lord named Cheese, and had recently stolen $130,000 from him.

It reminds me “Milgram experiment”. If you answered yes to either question or both you’re either a saint or highly self delusional. And to me that’s the real message of the movie. Amy Ryan plays Helene Oscar-nominated performance, and what we see of her shows that Helene does not even care demonstrate any type of parenting skills to even debate about. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 12, 2008. So if Amanda was alive, who was the dead child Patrick found in the pedo’s house? In a gut-punching of an ending scene we are left to see the remnants of Patrick’s decision. Damn good movie. It is nearly impossible to agree or disagree with Patrick’s choice due to all of shit that is pulled by the police. They would provide beautiful memories and happiness for her, rich or poor didn’t matter. When asked if he’d do it again (after killing that pedo) he said NO.

For me, too. It’s something that would effect the outcome of Amanda’s life forever. but they are no doubt a very good thing for Amanda. And he realizes it as he sits with her on the couch. Patrick’s decision is absolutely right, even though Helene is a bitch she is the mother of Amanda and has the highest priority to have custody of Amanda. The right decision would’ve been to leave her with Morgan Freeman’s character. The damn ending just pisses me off but I have to give props to the writers and the Affleck brothers for hitting one out of the yod. If the person who did the removing was there to make sure everything turned out alright it would make all the difference.

So we do the best we can with incomplete information. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Letting people think that for the rest of their lives is unforgivable. But once that decision is made we are responsible for what comes because we were an instrument in setting things down that particular path and need to live up to that responsibility. I like to feel that he will be there for her for the rest of her life, and if need be will see her removed from her mother’s care.

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