A tragedy without solution

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2020)

Clint Eastwood is one of the last classic directors today and in 2003 he ventured to adapt Dennis Lehane's book 'Mystic River'.
The plot begins with a tragic event, where a group of children are playing on the street and one of them is kidnapped. After that the story makes a temporary jump and shows children and adults.
Eastwood's vision of this story is captured throughout the film with his great mastery. A dark story with elements of film noir and police film marks the atmosphere and the characters in the story. Characters completely broken and marked by a traumatic event that occurred in their childhood, which will always accompany them, therefore we are facing a tragedy or drama without solution, which makes the story extremely sad.
The final message that Clint Eastwood delivers is completely explicit, those three children were kidnapped in their childhood, their innocence was stolen and they could never escape it. Even in his adult life, where each one has been influenced in one way or another by that fact. And the director tells this sad story in the most brilliant way possible.