such bad things to such good people.

gone baby gone - 8.5/10. mystic river is an easy, and appropriate, comparison, but i'd put it along the lines of something like the constant gardener. the best thing that comes out of this movie is that it shows how easy, how easy it is to do the wrong thing. there is a period in the movie where the argument to do the wrong thing is so strong that you start to believe it and the counter-argument so flimsy that you can't believe that it's under debate at all. for five minutes, you're on the bad guy's side. except the movie doesn't supply a bad guy, only a few people's idea of what is right vs. another's idea of what is right, which happens to be the law's definition of what is right, and is in the end about how you can live with yourself with the decisions you make. the music can get a little melodramatic and morgan freeman is a figurehead of a character, but it's an interesting subject matter and i'm probably jizzing over it so much because it's a subject matter i'm in to. it probably deserves a little lower rating but fuck it, watch it, all right.

rent - 1/10. a crew of shitty, artsy douches complain about their situation while doing nothing to fight it other than to sing jesus christ superstar b-sides with tinny, whiny, lame voices and blame everything on one of their defectors who no longer share their shitty, artsy, douche ideals, and all i can do is pray pray pray the building burns down.