DVR recorded movie ratings #6

This post won't be so long seeing as I have only really seen two movies since my last posting, but the movies I watched were great!

• The Changeling-  I had been wanting to see this movie since it pretty much came out, then I forgot about it. Then I jumped to record it the moment I saw it showing on cable. Seeing as it was late when I started to watch it, I didn't think that I would watch the whole thing (something I hardly do) in one sitting...but I did! Wow, oh wow... this movie was heart-breaking and unbelievable. Angelina Jolie stars as a single mom who went to work one day, came home, and her son was gone. She called the cops and filed a report. Then they found her son, only it wasn't her son and she kept telling the cops that and everyone who would listen. There were too many discrepancies to even begin to believe that this boy was her son. His looks, his height, his appetite, his schooling, his teeth, his manhood. She had teachers, doctors (her own), dentists, her priest saying they would back her up in saying that this boy was not her son, but the cops would have none of that. Instead, they decided to get their own doctor and make excuses for the boys changes [trauma stuns your growth (so much that you SHRINK 3 inches)]. Then they take her to a psych ward until she accepts that the police was right and that the boy is her son. Every day she refused to sign the form stating so and she was left in there being medicated and was about to be given electric shock therapy, until her priest and some lawyers came just in time to stop it. In another related story, there's this other boy who will be deported to Canada who starts crying at the police station. He then states to the police that he has been a witness to his uncle killing so many kids he lost track, but somewhere around 20 at his ranch chicken coop. He goes into detail of what the uncle did and what the uncle made him do. The police don't believe him at first but then they show the boy pictures and the boy is able to identify most of them being victims. Among one of them is Angelina's son. The police goes to the ranch, tells the boy to start digging since "he buried them, might as well dig them up." So the boy dug and about 5 minutes later, the police started seeing shoes, skulls, body parts. They arrested the uncle in Canada, who went into hiding (at least tried to) at his sister's house, but she called the cops. Angelina was told of the killings and of her son being a victim. This was all based on a true story. So true that the residents of the city of Wineville did not want to be associated with such horror that it changed it's name to Mira Loma. As in Mira Loma in California.that's 24 miles east of where my parents live. I know there have been several movies based in Los Angeles and I love that, but somehow this hit home. It was a very sad, stunning, shocking story and movie. If you haven't seen this movie go see it NOW! I give this movie 5 Daisy-girls, PLUS 5 more.
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh- I stumbled upon this movie after watching I-forgot-what on the LOGO channel. It had to do with some guy who has a mob dad and has finished school. So before he goes to work as a stock broker, he has an unforgettable Summer. He goes to a party and meets Sienna Miller. She is pretty, well was, because I don't think she is now, still cute though. She is quick to tell him that she has a boyfriend. Before he realizes it, the boyfriend becomes his friend. Soon the three are all hanging out all the time. So much that the guy's girlfriend feels left out and soon dumps him. Oh, and she was also his boss at the school bookstore. Stuff happens and the boyfriend leaves for a while, so the guy and the girlfriend become close. The boyfriend comes back and he is in trouble. Turns out he owes to the dad, but states that he can't buy himself out of the debt. They go to dad and in return the boyfriend is told to defriend (my word by the way) the son and in return he will be free. The son says fuck that and leaves town with the boyfriend, but not before breaking into the house and stealing some jewelry. Of course the silent alarm goes off and dad calls the cops. A chase ensues and the boyfriend climbs some stairs and jumps off the smokestack and dies. The son is arrested, dad bails him out. The son asks dad why he called the cops, dad doesn't want to discuss it and tells him to get in the car. The he orders him to get in the car, then demands he get in the car. The son walks away and in a voice-over says he never saw his dad again that he was going to grand central station to catch the train for his future in stocks. It was a pretty decent movie, I give it 4 Daisy-girls.