Imagine losing the person that you love the most, and then by some incredulous miracle, someone finds them. Someone brings them back to you. You’re ecstatic, and you run up to them, anxious to hold them in your arms…and then you see their face for the first time in what feels like years.
Their eyes are the same color blue, but slightly closer together, and the cute dimples that you loved are lost in a smile that isn’t theirs. You try to hold back the tears, but you know you can’t stifle them. You’re shocked. Lost. Confused. Now take a moment and imagine being the only person that knows this isn’t them. Let alone, the only person that believes you.
By Stephanie Wytovich
Staff Writer
Imagine losing the person that you love the most, and then by some incredulous miracle, someone finds them. Someone brings them back to you. You’re ecstatic, and you run up to them, anxious to hold them in your arms…and then you see their face for the first time in what feels like years.
Their eyes are the same color blue, but slightly closer together, and the cute dimples that you loved are lost in a smile that isn’t theirs. You try to hold back the tears, but you know you can’t stifle them. You’re shocked. Lost. Confused. Now take a moment and imagine being the only person that knows this isn’t them. Let alone, the only person that believes you.
“Changeling” is a passionate movie, staring Angelina Jolie, that tugs at the heart strings to any viewer engaged in the story. One is put through an emotional rollercoaster as they witness the film that was construed based on the Wineville Chicken Murders” that took place in Riverside County, California.
The film opens with Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) being called into work, and having to leave her son, Walter, home by himself housed with only the problem that she’ll be home by dark. Upon her return, she finds that her son is missing, and immediately calls in a report to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
After five, painful months, the LAPD contacted her with the notion that they had found her child, stranded somewhere in Illinois. Rushing to the train station with aspirations of being reuniting with her son, Collins was met by a child that resembled Walter, but was definitely not her son.
“Changeling” is based on a true story and is one that explores the conspiracies and unethical behavior of the LAPD and their effects and influence on the Los Angelos community. Packed with immense drama and some unsettling scenes, viewers are transported back into a time when women were thrown into the Psyche Ward just for confronting and challenging the police.
I’ll admit that I was hooked from the beginning, and while the movie lasts two hours and twenty minutes, it kept my attention the entire time. In fact, I don’t think I moved off the edge of my seat when the credits started to fill the screen.
I greatly recommend this movie to anyone seeking a good story with an exceptional plot. Jolie skillfully delivers a stifling performance that will bring you to tears, as you witness first hand the atrocities that our world has been through and endured. If you have a taste for justice, then this is the perfect movie to become engrossed in.
