1.The film Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, is an eerily haunting story about Christine Collins battle with the LAPD to recover her kidnapped son. The police returned a boy that is not her own, and the movie delves into a gruesome story of what really happened to unfortunate Walter Collins
2. Christine Collins : The protagonist. She is a single mother living in Los Angeles. Her son Walter is kidnapped and the plot of the movie is her frantically searching for him. She is persistent, held together, and very strong. In many cases she is horribly brutalized by the police and these experiences only make her grow as a character.
Captain JJ Jones: He is the police man who oversees the Collins case. He is shady, and self centered, and also is very dangerous if one goes against him. In the beginning of the film he is a protagonist, but as it progresses his role very clearly morphs into an antagonist force working against Christine Collins.
Gordon Northcott: He is the antagonist in this film. This man is sadistic and twisted. He kidnaps children, keeps then in a chicken coop and then brutally murders them. This character is terryifying and completely evil.
3. Clint Eastwood used camera angles very affectively in this film. In the horror scenes he shot from the perspective of the trapped children, stuck in a chicken coupe. He also used a shot of the bloody axe swinging down into the camera, but made it not stereotypically horror, instead it is just sickening.
4. The storyline itself is rather horrific, honestly it is a worst nightmare situation. A kidnapped child is taken and brutally murdered, while the police all along are insisting that another random child is in fact that missing boy.
5. If I were directing this then I think I would have spent more time on Walter himself, so that the viewer feels more of an emotional connection to him when he disappears.
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