Show Changeling review 1 14 4 CHANGELING rr ar r Photo courtesy of yahoo movies ies Diana Joy Jones Arts Editor Recent DVD release Changeling has a truly profound quality that emerges from an intricately captured setting The film at times tunes stretches stretches' too long which leaves an artificial feeling As a whole it is a through and through melodrama that lingers on a universal need for justice all while pulling on parental heartstrings Changeling Continued on I Changeling overlong yet engaging emotional epic I Diana Joy Jones Arts Editor As gravitation the story itself is disturbing depressing and demands emotional involvement A very dramatic film with restrained direction The Changeling presents a parents parent's worst nightmare and kicks it up a notch Christine Collins Angelina Jolie is a single mother in the late who works as a supervisor at ata ata ata a telephone company With tender attention Collins records Walters Walter's Gattlin Griffith height against a adoor adoor adoor door frame and urges him not to let his frosted flakes get cold When she is called into work on a Saturday Collins returns home to discover that Walter is missing Months later the police find a young boy and claim he is Collins' Collins son To her extreme anguish Collins is aware that the child is not Walter With audacious denial Captain Jones Jeffrey Donovan explains that the boy has merely changed due to his traumatic experiences Although Collins takes the child home she realizes that the boy in her care who is three inches shorter than Walter truly is an imposter With the aid of Reverend Gustav John Malkovich who actively advocates against the Los Angeles Police Department Collins wages war against the deception The police determined to save face incessantly fight back While the film unravels truths and pits its heroine against internal torment the story at times becomes heavy and draining Luckily Changeling doesn't completely crumble under its own weight It manages to continually engage as the incredulous events mount despite lags This is partially due to Jolie's performance which keeps up with the wide scope of her characters character's emotional trials She almost always has a passionate and captivating presence which works well for this movie Her face fate contorts from a variation of grief to rage While some of the theother theother theother other characters feel one- one dimensional stoic or too extreme the film truly belongs to Jolie's character and her search Clint Eastwoods Eastwood's newest film has a nostalgia that sucks one in with its glossy setting The film opens and ends in black and white but the body of the story is drenched in color There is little contrast from a bright red Trolley to Angelina Jolie's cherry lipstick The overall look is striking with an time old-time authenticity and detail heightened by a melancholic musical score 1 I- I w 1 i Photo courtesy of Yahoo Mo Movies l ics Angelina Jolie and Jeffrey Donovan in Universal Pictures' Pictures The Changeling 2008 Based on true events this movie is overall beautifully filmed It plods at times but absorbs more often than not At the center Changeling is a truly vivid if over-dramatic over exploration of societal corruption loss and the need for truth Changeling is rated R for violence language and disturbing themes Special features include two making of vignettes |