"Never start a fight... but always finish it"

No, this quote has nothing significant with my life currently. I took it from the movie i had just finished watching, Changeling. (It has become a ritual for me to have a movie marathon on every free-friday that i can have. Presumably, this is my way of de-stressing, hehe)

This movie is great. It is based on real event happened during 1920-1930. It is about the fight a mother is willing to go through to get her son back, no matter what kind of hardship she has to face.

Let me give some details. Christine is a single mother, living with her 9 years old son, Walters. Then came one day where she was supposed to bring his son to the movie, when she had suddenly being called to work. She left her son at home, assuming that she will then quickly come back or something. But to her suprise, when she gets home, her son is missing.

Since when she made her police report, Walter have not been missing for 24 hours yet, the police only came to check on her case in the morning. Unfortunately, there was no trace of Walters anywhere in the neighboorhood anymore. (This is something i had always feel disagree with the police system. Missing people can only be reported IF the person had been missing for more than 24 hours. What if the person was kidnapped, and killed? Wasn't 24 hours is way too long, and too late? Other than receiving 'rasuah', why not assign these police with all these task. It doesn't matter if the person caome back within minutes or something, but i think if they really do that, i am willing to give them more respect then what i am giving now. To be honest, it's not much.)

Then came this boy who said that he is Walter. Of course the mom would know that he's a faux.
(She has a habit if measuring his son every morning before breakfast. When this fake kid trying to take over Walter's place, the measurement on the wall seems to prove that he's not Walter. He is shorter by 3 inches!)

After some more time, by some twist of fate, there's this young boy who admitted that he was forced to kill a group of young boys in a ranch, brutally. (In the moving, they are using axes!) Some people believe Walter was among the boys that got killed. But to his mother, he was still out there.

The guy who was convisted with the murder were hang to death if front of all the parents whom kids get killed in the ranch.

After 5 years, when the case had almost been forgotten, one kid (now a young adult) came forward saying that he was among the kids who was kidnapped in the ranch. He manage to escape. Not only that, at the night when he escaped, Walter was with him as well. Only that no one can confirm whether Walter had actually managed to get away from that place, or ended up being one of the brutal-murder victims.

But to Christine, she felt better now. Because, three kids get away that night, and one of them could be Walter. No one knows what happen to them, but she said, she now feel better 'cause she can hope for Walter to come back for real, since eventually Walter did tried to escape.

I love the whole scene. It reminds me of watchingThe Pianist long time ago. Classic, yet dramatic.

Trivia:
a) The murder was taken place in a Chicken Coop Ranch near Wineville. Due to what happened, the authority change the name of that place to Mira Loma.

b) Angelina Jolie is wearing the same kind of hat that Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl) is wearing is one of the series episodes. I guess fashion does come in circle.

c) The old time operator was so messy. I am happy that we finally found the PBX.

d) I sense the similarity of police department behavior in this film with one we have in here. With power, they thought they can rule us like nobody business.

e) I will never talk to a lawyer. They are so manipulative.