More Hollywood Effluvium.

Rating: 5/10 (6 October 2014)

This film is actually interesting. In a convoluted sort of way. There is good solid ensemble acting by all involved and a notable performance given by Casey Affleck who plays a youngish private detective trying to break a missing child case that is mired a mile deep in local effluvium. Another younger guy who deals cocaine is depicted in the picture at one point as being some kind of a noble person who 'fights the good fight' which I think is pretty damned unlikely. The depiction of unreal rotten morally empty people as representational of the people that inhabit the poorer areas of the good city of Boston-is tedious. One thing that I have never seen in 500 Hollywood movies is a depiction of anyone who grew up in North America after moving from England as a kid causing them to lose their British accent growing up in a place not England. Accepting that even exists in todays world is considered by many to be on a par with accepting Satan into their lives-when denying such things exist is basically what it is to be Satan. Given that thorny general state of affairs I would't call this movie ground breaking or noteworthy. Policeman takes kid who has doper mother-detective steals kid back and returns to doper mother which will ruin kids life-end of story-nobody wins. The movie doesn't enlighten. Things stink generally at the start of the film and they stink generally at the end of it also. Frustrating movie. So frustrating it is interesting.In a convoluted sort of way.