[Marxism] Clint Eastwood's "The Changeling"

[Walter Lippmann]

Saw and enjoyed this somewhat overlong mystery yesterday
starring Angelina Jolie as the mother of a child who 
disappeared in Los Angeles in 1928. Some months later,
the LAPD finds a boy who looks similar to Jolie's sun
but when she recognized he's not her child (among other
things he's three-inches shorter and been circumcised)
the LAPD tosses her in to the county hospital mental
ward where she's violently sedated, but told she's be
let free if she signs a statement saying that was wrong
and the child was really hers. Jolie isn't glamorous as
she is in other movies, and it's a bit overlong, but it
held my attention. As it turns out in the narrative, 
"a true story", the child was taken by a serial killer
and, well, I won't tell you how it ends up. Roger Ebert
and Kenneth Turan liked the movie a lot, but the NY Times
complained about it.

Here in Los Angeles we're having yet another serial killer
on the loose now:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-serial1-2008nov01,0,1188783.story

"The Changeling" reminded me also of another recent film,
the French film TELL NO ONE. Both movies depict in graphic
ways what can happen to anyone who disagrees with the way
the police have decided that a case should be resolves.

While in the end, one or a few honest cops helps unravel the
situation, it's truly frightening to see, and in Eastwood's
version it's terrifyingly graphically depicted, what the 
cops can do to anyone who doesn't go along with their script.

There's a very powerful depiction of the way the death penalty
was carried out in the mid-1930s, as well: by hanging.


Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California



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     WALTER LIPPMANN
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