Changeling (2008) directed by Clint Eastwood

I've just finished watching the movie, yeah i know i've been watching a lot of movies, This is it by MJ b4 and now Changeling, well what to do, i have no important dates to go for and i have plenty of time at home, this is one of the best things that could ever happen to me, honestly :P. I "started" watching this movie 2 weeks ago and yes, obviously i did not go on until the end first time watching it, in fact it was at very beginning of the movie that i stopped it. I told a friend that the movie was bullcrap, reason? It showed how powerless a woman could be and i hated that feeling, I hated the fact that the movie portrayed women as the weaker subject, and it was ridiculous how the police forced the mother to admit that the son was hers when in fact he was not, for you who have not heard of the movie or watched it or even read the sypnosis of it, plz do so in wikipedia or even better, watch it. Today, before i was about to sleep, i suddenly remembered that i've this half-watched movie left and so i told myself no matter how absurd, finished it because it's Angelina Jolie's movie (well how bad can her movies be :P). After watching it, I have to admit this is the first movie ever, that I CRIED while watching it, not sobbing, crying ;). It is truly moving and forget about the acting of the actors (obviously their skills were impeccable), the message that the movie brought, i've never felt anything quite like this before from a movie, well i've watched a few good movies but this is totally different. I cried when the murderer Gordon Stewart Northcott was hanged and i've no idea why ( i sorta thought i cried at the wrong part of the movie, well should have cried when i saw the helplessness and the feeling of lost in AJ's eyes when searching for her son and she had to bear with the mental and physical torture when she was "escorted" to the asylum due to her confrontation with the force) *you will understand the verb in bracket if u watch the movie*. I cried the moment when the condemned was dropped, when I heard a crack and when he struggled before he died, it was so surreal that i couldn't hold myself. Towards the end, I no longer thought that the movie displayed women as weaker sex, u know something, as much as you think women are powerless, that's how strong they are. I was so moved by the movie that I think it's really worth mentioning, it shows u despair that everybody experiences everyday, nobody escapes from it, the despair of losing ur loved ones, the despair of watching ur loved ones die, the despair of not knowing what's gonna happen, the despair of being completely sane but nobody buys it. This movie's based on a true event so it added the element of realness to it.

So again, of course, it is about me :P. Whatever problems I'm facing right now is nothing compared to those who have suffered lost of loved ones and no matter how "despair" i believe myself to be, I can be nowhere near that, so here comes my strength again to move on, to tell myself that nothing is as bad, take life easy for now as we will all have many other occasions which will make life so much harder (i sincerely hope nothing of that sort will happen but life is life, we are not living on a bed of roses all the time), appreciate what you have because once it's gone, you might never have the second chance to get it back ;)



P/S: oh yeah, credit goes to Clint Eastwood (not like he needs my compliment anyway :P) wonderful storyline which touched the core of my heart ;)