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Gone Baby Gone

A good story with a bad sequence that kept it from being great.

• Structure, Logic

The sequence in question is almost one hour in, the quarry set-up where the girl “died.” After the incident, there was a TV report of the police searching the water and shortly later came the announcement that the search was off- no body found- and the girl pronounced dead. This largely ruined it for me- despite a character on TV saying the quarry is deep or large, it didn’t look that huge to make it impossible to find the girl. And it was a finite space, unlike a sea or river. And even when called off, the Casey Affleck character should’ve had doubts.

The quarry should’ve been a different body of water, or the calling off the search without having found the body should’ve been the thing to make the main character suspect more. As it was, the story kind of ended for a few minutes at that point and only got back on track when Affleck, at the hospital, realized the Ed Harris cop lied to him. It’s never good for a movie to completely close one path in the middle of the story and take a while to resume it.

-At the home of the pedophile, Affleck shot the unarmed, passive guy in the back of the head and it seemed everyone knew about it. How, then, was he not arrested? Last I checked, it’s not legal to kill.

• Little thing

When Ed Harris died sitting on the roof, his head was upright and unsupported, yet remained locked in place. For such a gritty, realistic story, this was so sillly…his head should’ve tilted down or to a side.

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