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another movie that makes me despise men !

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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

"Yours is a story with a happy ending, Ms. Collins. People love happy endings."

One of the maestro's finest, even if at times it feels so jam packed with ideas that it almost becomes exhausting. Firstly, it's the great Los Angeles film, a city of glitz, glamour, police brutality, covered-up scandals, and where the possibility of questioning something is barely even a consideration. The police's only concern is preserving their image, because they are aware that the images are becoming dominant, thus they must be manipulated. This is achieved by them as early as the moment Christine meets the fake Walter; they have her surrounded by press and immediately photograph them together, to secure the proof and turn the lie…

Review by C.K ❄ ★★★★½ Liked

Beautiful and heartbreaking.
First 30 minutes are slow and they set the stage well.
The ending is tragic as well as satisfying.

Review by Cellar Door L ★★★★

Peak patriarchy... like literally since it's based on true story.

My expectaction towards police is damn low but ASTAGHFIRULLAH.

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"A Troca" é um filme que mergulha o espectador em uma narrativa densa e angustiante, acompanhando a jornada de uma mãe determinada a desvendar o misterioso desaparecimento de seu filho. Baseado em eventos reais ocorridos em 1928, em Los Angeles, o longa explora temas como abuso infantil, corrupção policial e a dor das perguntas sem resposta, mantendo uma atmosfera intensa ao longo de seus 141 minutos.

A Troca utiliza seus minutos iniciais para estabelecer a relação carinhosa entre Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), uma mãe solteira, e seu filho Walter (Gattlin Griffith). Quando o garoto desaparece misteriosamente, Christine solicita a ajuda da corrompida polícia de Los Angeles, que, meses depois, anuncia publicamente ter encontrado a criança. No entanto, ao se ver…

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Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” imbues the genres of courtroom film and detective drama with an urgent feminism. The combination wrenches pathos and power from its true life tale, and from the deep talents of its lead actress. 

“Changeling” is based off a series of child abductions that took place in 1920s California. Angelina Jolie assumes the role of a mother institutionalized after claiming police had recovered and returned to her a boy who was not her own son. 

Similar to “White Hunter Black Heart,” Eastwood takes the trappings of one straight story, and adorns them with associations of sociopolitical depth. “Hunter” was not just about a film shoot, and “Changeling” is not only about a missing persons case. 

While granting a…

Review by serena 🌙 ★★★½

the fact that this is a true story angers and saddens me to no end

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Sapped of color, sapped of soul, built along a clumsy narrative path that gives more attention to the men surrounding Christine Collins, letting them tell us how inspired they are by her, without actually showing us her fighting spirit beyond histrionic outbursts. This is bourgeois "feminism," avoiding any real indictment of the misogynistic system in favor of individualistic bullshit seeking to redeem the system and the men in it. They show you the system scapegoating, then double-down on it within the narrative. It's a neat bit of cinematic prestidigitation, trying to guide you with statements providing a false sense of empowerment, all the while silencing the central character in favor of these cut-jawed machos, sniveling psychopaths, and moral demagogues.

You're better off watching the BuzzFeed Unsolved episode on this, and that's saying a lot.

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Changeling is based on a true and infuriating story of indifference and incompetence. It begins with a woman’s personal tragedy before it devolves into a larger conspiracy that involves serial murders and the futile attempts of a police force to save face at the expense of truth.

Christine Collins’ world crumbles when her 9-year-old son disappears. Her concerns are shrugged off from the very beginning. Standard procedure, they say. Then, her story is repurposed into a factory-made happy ending for the masses when the police try to convince her a boy they’ve found is her son. Her outraged is deemed inappropriate, and to get rid of bad press, she is thrown into a psychiatric facility, but it all backfires when…

Review by Noah Teuber ★★★★

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT WAS A TRUE STORY. I was yelling "LISTEN TO ANGELINA, IT'S NOT HER FUCKING KID!!!!" the whole time.

Review by Jennade5a7 ★★★★½

This movie disturbed me . 
we wonder how this story can be real..
we see the love of a mother, the hope, the fight of a woman who would do anything for her child ...
If you want to be surprised by a true story or just to a film I recommend you this movie ; 
But don't watch it now if you are too young it’s an advice