Changeling Movie Analysis
Examples of Film Reviews
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Changeling
Sandra Hall SMH
January 31, 2009
CHANGELING is a lurid tabloid tale that happens to be true - apart from one or two Hollywood embellishments. On all available evidence, for instance, its real-life heroine, Christine Collins, bore absolutely no resemblance to Angelina Jolie.
Jolie's Christine - with her scarlet pout, her cloche hat pulled low over the brow and her dark eyes gleaming with unshed tears, is a cartoonist's delight. But I'm not carping. The overall effect is far from being a caricature.
Christine Collins was a single parent whose nine-year-old son went missing in Los Angeles in 1928 and for all her glamour, Jolie is a good fit. As she proved with her performance as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart, she's at her best when bereft. The enamelled armour she wears as her half of the Brangelina brand is stripped away and you become acquainted yet again with the fact that she can act.
Collins's case uncovered a corruption scandal that involved Los Angeles' most powerful figures, among them the mayor and the police chief, and its story is so rich in gothic touches that you wonder why James Ellroy didn't get to it first. Instead, the story was disinterred by J. Michael Straczynski, a journalist who's also worked in television. These days, he writes Marvel comic books, none of them, I'm …show more content…
The self-proclaimed town spokesman, Grace's supposed savior and love interest, is named Tom Edison, and he certainly sees himself as the Bringer of Light to his community. It is on his insistence that the townspeople agree to harbor Grace, as a "gift" that will teach them openness and acceptance. A writer who never puts pen to paper, Tom instead calls town meetings to discuss "illustrations" of spiritual issues, and invents "games" that might lead to "moral
1.
Changeling
Sandra Hall SMH
January 31, 2009
CHANGELING is a lurid tabloid tale that happens to be true - apart from one or two Hollywood embellishments. On all available evidence, for instance, its real-life heroine, Christine Collins, bore absolutely no resemblance to Angelina Jolie.
Jolie's Christine - with her scarlet pout, her cloche hat pulled low over the brow and her dark eyes gleaming with unshed tears, is a cartoonist's delight. But I'm not carping. The overall effect is far from being a caricature.
Christine Collins was a single parent whose nine-year-old son went missing in Los Angeles in 1928 and for all her glamour, Jolie is a good fit. As she proved with her performance as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart, she's at her best when bereft. The enamelled armour she wears as her half of the Brangelina brand is stripped away and you become acquainted yet again with the fact that she can act.
Collins's case uncovered a corruption scandal that involved Los Angeles' most powerful figures, among them the mayor and the police chief, and its story is so rich in gothic touches that you wonder why James Ellroy didn't get to it first. Instead, the story was disinterred by J. Michael Straczynski, a journalist who's also worked in television. These days, he writes Marvel comic books, none of them, I'm …show more content…
The self-proclaimed town spokesman, Grace's supposed savior and love interest, is named Tom Edison, and he certainly sees himself as the Bringer of Light to his community. It is on his insistence that the townspeople agree to harbor Grace, as a "gift" that will teach them openness and acceptance. A writer who never puts pen to paper, Tom instead calls town meetings to discuss "illustrations" of spiritual issues, and invents "games" that might lead to "moral