Okay, I'm beginning my backlog of films. That means I'll be writing about movies I saw a while ago and that I might not remember all that well. So, Gone Baby Gone. This is one of those movies that caught my off guard by how good it is. I was expecting a standard mystery/crime drama but what I got was a nuanced meditation on morality. Maybe if I realized that it was based on a book by the guy who wrote Mystic River I would have been more prepared. Too often films give us good guy and bad guys or have their characters choose between good and evil but this film explores shades of gray. Ultimately, this movie presents us with a moral conundrum where none of the solutions seem like the right thing to do. That's why I liked it so much. It's much more interesting to see people struggle with moral dilemmas when there are no right answers.
I officially like Ben Affleck again.
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