Heartbreakingly beautiful from the very first sound...

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2008)

The moment the first note of the theme song came up on the screen, tears started to fill my eyes... I knew that the directorial debut by Ben Affleck, "Gone Baby Gone, was going to be a Great Film. All you had to do was LISTEN. All you have to do is HEAR.
You will be transported from the land of the living to the land of innocence lost and long gone and the longing for what we knew long ago and far away... it's that place we all know and long to return to that doesn't have a name.
You don't even have to watch the screen, even though you wouldn't want to miss a frame... This gorgeous, touching, heartbreaking soundtrack by Harry Gregson-Williams follows every fast-paced twist and turn down the rushing river that takes us on this tale of "right and wrong." The story is heartbreaking morality play, about the choices that we find that we must make, even when we don't want to take a side, and none of them seem right. The musical score by Harry Gregson-Williams perfectly sets the stage. The actors played their parts to the hilt, so that you could barely say who was "right" and who was "wrong." I will be thinking about this story for a long, long time.
Talking about the soundtrack, you could be a blind person and not have to watch a frame; just sit and listen to the voices and the song: you would know the tale of love, longing and loss, right and wrong and how we sometimes try to do our best. And so often do our worst.
I have come to believe that people are all too often "too terrible for words." They are selfish, greedy, full of fear and hatred; they are self-centered and cruel... Then along comes those few people who aren't. And those are the ones we call Heroes and Saints.
This is one of the best films, acting, directing and soundtrack I've seen in a long, long time. Simply tremendous... it was almost "three stories in one." I wish it could have gone on longer as a sequel, as there is so much more to the story to tell.
This is a tale that takes us to the land of innocence, so long ago and far away, which still survives in spite of whatever errors or terrible deeds we do. There may still be hope for us all... * * * * *