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Re: A few words about...™ Gone Baby Gone -- in BD
Excellent flick based on a novel series by Dennis Lehane, of Mystic River fame. Both Afflecks captured the "no black and white, only shades of grey" and "even good intentions have bad consequences" darkness and doom of Lehane's novels based on the twisted "justice" of his constant main character, the city of Boston itself. Indeed, Affleck did a better job of capturing "Boston the character" than even Eastwood in Mystic River; high praise indeed. Then again, the Afflecks are from here, they should know.
Special kudos to Amy Ryan who hit it out of the park as a character who would be (and is) completely loathesome, except for her performance which manages to display a small speck of semi-humanity, keeping her from being just a one-note (that, and I personally know at least a dozen people just like her, so I could see her reality).
Let's hope Ben and Casey get to film the rest of Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro novels. They are definitely worth it if this is the first result.
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