Ben Affleck is a good director and Casey Affleck is a hell of a actor. I went and saw Gone Baby Gone with the ex-wife last night. Yes we're talking again, but we did sit on opposite sides of the theater. The movie was very good, very similar style to Mystic River.
Cassey Affleck is in every shot of the movie, and does some narration in parts of the movie. Who would have thought the dorky brother of Ben Affleck, last seen in the Ocean Eleven movies as an idiot, had quite the emotional range. There are scenes with action, with comedy, and were intense drama; and he pulls them all off. The movie is not light, it is about child abduction and the lifestyle of the lower class, especially in south Boston, and what that lifestyle pushes people to doing. It is however very good, best movie I have seen this year. It hurts me to say it but Casey Affleck should be nominated for an Oscar. That's especially sad because the only reason he was ever in any movie is because he is Ben Affleck's brother and he got drunk a few times with Matt Damon.
Ben Affleck also does a good job directing the movie, and writing the screen play. There are a few very emotionally intense scenes that he handles beautifully with the camera angles and also directing tricks. I never read the book (I can't read) but it feels as if he does a good job turning it into a movie. It keeps you interested throughout, even after a few parts in which you think the movie is winding down, and you've figured it out, it keeps you interested and emotionally invested.
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