Review of the movie Substitution. She wants her son back
Corruption – one of the topics that can be raped for years, without interruption, but not getting much pleasure. Hardly anyone can associate the concept of corruption with Los Angeles in the first place. Here associations such as beaches or good old Hollywood are more likely to win. In the 20s of the last century, the situation was reversed: the city was choked with corruption. Los Angeles was fed this sweet cake of venality and impunity by the mayor and police chief. And one day, their power machine ran into a little woman, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie). The city shuddered, shook off the ashes scattered along the side of the streets of the corpses. In March 1928, Christina Collins lost her son, Walter. Five months later, the police, accompanied by a dozen journalists, arranged for her to meet with a boy, whom they named her child. The shocked Collins couldn't say anything. The police, however, had to present themselves in a heroic light at least once before the inhabitants of the city, so they could not afford to give the word to the mother and admit that the found child was not HER son. Collins was a single mother. She was an American lady. Lashing out at Captain Jones, who was in charge of her case, she then apologized for a long time and begged him to continue searching for the real child. Finally, the captain got tired of insulting the woman, calling her a cuckoo mother abandoning a child, and put her in a psychiatric clinic. That did not constitute any particular difficulties for him - – thanks to 'Clause 12' the police could have locked up any woman in the clinic, in any way disturbing the peace of her staff. The Reverend Gustav Prigleb (John Malkovich) in the 1920s was the most prominent representative of the opposition to the city government. It was he who opened Collins's eyes to the innocence of the police. He gave her the opportunity to see, and she started the fight. Initially, Jolie refused to movie in The Substitution. But Clint Eastwood won the script right away. It is a real, forgotten story that (Collins v. City) has brought about many changes in Los Angeles. After the disappearance of her son, Collins herself lived only 7 years, dying, she never found out whether her child was alive or died.
Simultaneously the Collins case was being tried in the maniac's case, engaged in kidnapping. Among the two dozen boys he stole, Walter Collins was named. The killer kidnapped children, took them to the farm and brutally killed them. As soon as he first saw Christine Collins in the courtroom, at the hearing of his case, he began to torture her – then, saying that he never killed her son, then, calling him one of his victims. Many lines from Captain Jones or Christine Collins' speeches were taken for script work from these case documents. Working practically from the first take, Eastwood gave the audience that kind of acting that can be called piercing. A heavy story that is tempered by Jolie's grace and gentleness, The Substitution - this is an acutely social cinema, the theme of which has changed little since the 20s, is still terrifying and asks to think.
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