{"id":899,"date":"2007-11-07T00:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/07\/gone-baby-gone\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:11:05","slug":"gone-baby-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Gone Baby Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am draggin’ these last few days. I don’t know if it’s just the Daylight Saving (which I hate, hate, hate) or my pre-menopausal period dragging on. I know, I’m young to be talking about pre-menopause (39), but I’m saying that to reassure myself that my body’s antics are normal until I can get in to see a doc.<\/p>\n

Bella’s in her room talking excitedly about a boy. Chad and his bro are downstairs watching BattleStar Galactica with Giselle, and I – – I have just enough energy to post a movie review before collapsing in bed.<\/p>\n

Chad and I caught Gone Baby Gone<\/strong><\/em> a few weeks back, and while I thought it was good movie, I would certainly not recommend it to everybody. In fact, had I known the subject matter (involves child molestation as a theme) I probably would have steered very very clear of it. My policy these days is not to watch a movie that contains those sick images that replay in your head. Unfortunately, I already have a few too many of those clips in my head (namely the rape scenes in movies like Last Exit to Brooklyn<\/strong><\/em> and Leaving Las Vegas<\/strong><\/em>) and I know too well that once they get into my brain, they have a hard time finding their way out.<\/p>\n

Not to scare you off, because there is only the innuendo of child molestation – but there is one instance of very strong innuendo.<\/p>\n

But if you can hack it, this movie written and<\/em> directed by Ben Affleck is getting amazingly high reviews at the Internet Movie Database (imdb 8.2\/10.o<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0 Them there are Oscar-reaching stats. Starring a silent-type tough boy local detective, played by Affleck’s very own younger brother, Casey, this movie is ostensibly about a little girl who’s been kidnapped from her own bedroom, and the couple who are hired to find her. Very similar in feel to Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River<\/em><\/strong>, Affleck uses the hometown friendly hood as a backdrop to uncover lifetimes of disappointment and the tragic attempts to make it all right. Speaking of which, Mystic River<\/strong><\/em> is rated 8.0\/10.0 at imdb and won two Oscar’s in 2003. I was impressed by the steady pace of the storyline – Ben did a nice job keeping the tension just so, without rushing or too many theatrics. In fact, my only complaint is that one nasty shudder-in-the-gut clip; I thought it was over the top and unnecessary – without it I would have given this movie an A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am draggin’ these last few days. I don’t know if it’s just the Daylight Saving (which I hate, hate, hate) or my pre-menopausal period dragging on. I know, I’m young to be talking about pre-menopause (39), but I’m saying … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}