Changeling

In 1928, a boy named Walter Collins went missing in L.A. Several months later a boy was returned safetly to his mother. Problem was, it was the wrong boy. When the mother pointed this out no one would believe her. To avoid admitting to their mistake, the police instead tried to force the mother into accepting her new son and when that failed they declared her crazy and had her locked up in an insane asylum.

It's not a very believable story, apart from the fact that, disturbingly, it's true.

It is difficult to put into words the powerful effect of this movie. The acting was superb. The camera work breath taking. The storyline heavy, to say the least.

Most people think of "Dark Knight" as the big bad of 2008. Well imagine Dark Knight, but with Joker killing kids, no Batman to save the day and being based on a true story. If your looking for a light hearted film, Changeling is probably not the place to start.

The tagline for this movie is, "To find her son, she did what no one else dared." This tagline is somewhat misleading. In fact, the scariest part of this film is that to find her son, Ms Collins does what almost anyone would do, she goes to the people put there to protect us and those people manage to take the worst thing that could ever happen to a mother and make it ten times worse.

The film shows how power can currupt and how absolute power can currupt absolutely. How a police officer, who presumably at some point believed in justice, can grow a God-complex as he rises the ranks when the ranks aren't clean.

Great film. Go watch it. Take tissues.