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Gone Baby Gone
by Ben Affleck
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A story about this — 26 weeks ago

Ahh so heart breaking. Sometime you just don’t know which road to choose. Gotta take a chance and do what you think is right.

MargieMay80
San Diego

A review of this — 27 weeks ago

Before I saw this I heard it compared to “The Departed” . . . but the similiarities start and end with the fact that both movies take place in Boston and include the Boston police.

I like how the end created a moral delimna for the main character (and the viewer). SPOILER ALERT: I definitely thought the girl was better off with Morgan Freeman’s character, but at the same time, she didn’t belong to him and there’s a process – he should have called Social Services and gone through the lawful procedures (no matter how crazy and screwed up the system is) to have her removed from her mom.

cabron
Halifax

A story about this — 1 year ago

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Pretty good.

holliday
Florida

Deontology — 1 year ago

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I think this movie is a really good example of Deontology (or Duty Ethics), and I like it for that. Patrick does the “right thing” because it is his duty, because it is the right thing to do period; he doesn’t base his decision on the consequences. A perfect example of a Deontological choice.

When the movie was over my mom said, “He made the wrong choice didn’t he.” I said no. She said, “but her mom will never change,” and I replied, “but that doesn’t mean she should stay with people who kidnapped her.” No telling how that would go either.

I didn’t know much about ethical theories until last semester when I took ethics class. It gave a good overview of the main theories, and while most of the student in my class seemed to think Duty Ethics was absurd, I connected with it the most.

Spoiler ahead, consider yourself warned
I also like how Patrick was somewhat taking responsibility in the end by checking up on Amanda and her mother and even babysitting. Who knows maybe the guy she was going out on a date with (who seemed quite the creep from what was told), will end up killing her, which would leave Amanda’s uncle Lionel, who was involved in the kidnapping and is now incarcerated, or his wife as her next of kin. Then perhaps somehow Patrick will have the opportunity to adopt her, knowing that he will provide a good, safe home. Then his girlfriend will come back and they can be a nice little family. That’s what I’d like to think anyway, and the ending lets you draw your own conclusions, such as that.


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