I try not to watch depressing films - my life is hard enough, I don't need external input. But my brother insisted it was worth it
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It IS worth it, but it is a haunting film, that stays with you, raising questions about identity and right and wrong. Great actors, unflashy directing, but particularly a great performance from Amy Ryan, as the incapable mother whose child's disappearance is at centre of the film (pleasingly Oscar nominated).
If there's one particular scene that stands out it must be when our detectives confront the drug dealer whom they initially suspect of kidnapping the child. The power keeps shifting between the two sides, mesmerising and tense. Its timing is perfect too - until now the film has gently rumbled on, quietly collecting exposition and characterisation, but here the time suddenly seems to slow and stretch. Tension escalates, before time snaps back, the plot twisting into new directions and the film's unapologetically conflicted finale.
"I don't know about nobody getting killed. But if somebody rob me and end up dead... well, you know, life... is a mo'erfucker."
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