Super good movie. Bit of a downer but that's ok. Casey Affleck is Patrick Kenzie and Michelle Monaghan is Angie Gennaro. The two are living together and have a private investigation business (more or less a repo business) when they are approached by the frantic aunt of a missing little girl. They take on the case, against Angie's intuition, and find themselves in the middle of a lot of sticky, morally ambiguous situations.
Affleck is brilliant. Who knew he could pull off a well-rounded, well-thought-out, serious character with any real emotion or talent? (Well, I guess Ben thought maybe that would work out). He's at his best, I think, when he's giving the seemingly off the cuff, million words a minute, I'm-telling-you-exactly-what-the-situation-is-and-I'm-not-taking-any-of-your-nonsense speaches. Ed Harris is good as Det. Remy Bressant. But too much depends on the intense plot twists to say too much about the characters themselves. I did like and appreciate that they didn't make Angie the advocate of the mother as if all women bond over being mothers or the potential to be mothers.
Definitely a morally tricky movie. It's not a feel good story at all. It might be interesting to teach--it's based on a Dennis Lehane novel of the same name but I've never heard of him much less read any of his books (I'm guessing it may be a little airport-fictiony?)
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