Okay, I was determined to hate this movie, just out of Bostonian self-loathing. And I was kinda not loving it up until the last five minutes, when the ending (which I will not spoil even though it’s a understated mental zinger rather than a spectacle) taught me something about movie endings: Sometimes the ending that you’ve been rooting for isn’t the happiest. And those last five minutes were brilliant.
Anyway, on the shallow end of the pool: There are exactly three attractive people in Gone Baby Gone: Casey Affleck, who plays a private investigator in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood; Michelle Monaghan, who plays his partner in work and life; and Amanda, the four-year old girl whose disappearance they are hired to investigate in conjunction with the Boston Police Department.
Everyone else is so ugly that it made me re-think my post on October 27, 2007, in which I denounce Boston’s rank of 16 out of 25 on Travel and Leisure’s attractiveness survey. I mean, where did Ben Affleck find such wretched people? The thought that such repellent-looking humans may be existing in the same geographic vicinity as myself is so unsettling that I’ve decided to move back to Philadelphia… where the beautiful people are.
