Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone is about a child abduction, not the kind of thing that usually appeals to me. I get kind of turned off by the self-righteous "to save one child" rhetoric (and this movie definitely had some of that). But Gone Baby Gone is different. It's a portrayal of the white trash (hate that phrase, but don't know what else to use) in South Boston. It's definitely an elitist, classist kind of fucked up depiction, definitely voyeuristic and judgmental. But it's very well done and gripping.

Particularly gripping was Amy Ryan's performance as the drug abusing mother of the missing little girl. She was so intense and raw. It was hard to believe she's the same actress who plays Michael's girlfriend on the office! She really held the film together, gave it it's center. She made up for the fact that Casey Affleck wasn't quite believable in his role, and that Morgan Freeman's character, who is pivotal, was very remote and underwritten and also maybe not quite believable.