More casual misogyny

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2008)

Is Clint Eastwood on a mission to right wrongs? A number of his directional efforts deal with the casual and unthinking misogyny of men. This is no exception. As an actress, Angelina Jolie is also no stranger to portraying the institutional 'inmate'. In this picture however, she changes sides and portrays, very well I might add, a woman made wrong by the hazing and self interested concerns of a corrupt legal and police system. The film put me in mind of the poor modern day victim of British misogyny Sally Clark who was accused of and imprisoned for killing two of her babies when real medical evidence suggested they likely died of infections. In neither this case nor the Collins case as in the film was the outcome good. Congratulations to Eastwood for producing a period piece with modern day parallels. The story is not over yet.