前阵子明明在电影院看到过巨幅的海报，原定于10月27、8上的，不知为什么临了又撤了。这片子，我倒是无所谓有没有大荧幕环绕立体声，反正不是冲着这些才想看的。
开头的音效还真是有够怀旧，当然说这话的前提是我已经很多年没碰过街机了。又为了以防前句带来任何误导性的暗示，坦白说我统共也就玩过不下8次吧。
话说Cera小朋友的长相如此geeky又纯情，扮演情圣当真是非常欠缺说服力，——哪怕是个常常被人甩的失败情圣。
剧情呢？一句话：没有耶。往轻了说，大概算是聊胜于无。
末了，它其实讲了个最简单不过的道理：love will give you power, but you will never be strong enough without self-respect.
Changeling is based on the true story of the kidnapping and supposed return of Christine Collins’ nine-year-old son, Walter. The aftermath of his disappearance exposed corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department and the city’s political hierarchy, leading to the dismissal of senior civic leaders.[4] Walter went missing on March 10, 1928,[56] after having been given money by his mother to go to the cinema. His disappearance received nationwide attention, and the Los Angeles Police Department followed up on hundreds of leads without success.[57] The department faced increasing public pressure to solve the case,[4] until five months after Walter’s disappearance,[57] when a boy claiming to be Walter was found in DeKalb, Illinois. Collins paid for the boy to be brought to Los Angeles, where a public reunion was organized by police. Collins’ claims that the boy was not Walter were met by police Captain J.J Jones’ urging her to "try [the boy] out for a couple of weeks".[4] When Collins returned to see Captain Jones three weeks later to repeat her claim, he had her committed to the psychopathic ward at Los Angeles County Hospital.[4] During Collins’ incarceration, Jones questioned the boy,[57] who admitted to being 12-year-old Arthur Hutchens. A diner at a roadside café in Illinois had told Hutchens of his resemblance to the missing Walter, so Hutchens came up with the plan to impersonate him. His motive was to get to Hollywood so he could meet his favorite actor, Tom Mix.[4] Collins was released and filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department.[57] Collins went on to win the second of two lawsuits and was awarded $10,800, which Jones never paid. The city council welfare hearing recommended that Jones and Chief Davis leave their posts, but both were eventually reinstated. In the aftermath of the case, the California State Legislature passed a bill that made it illegal for the police to commit someone to a psychiatric facility without a warrant.[22]
In 1926, 14-year-old Sanford Clark was taken from his home in Saskatchewan, Canada by his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott. Clark was taken to Northcott’s ranch in Wineville, Riverside County, where he was beaten and sexually abused by Northcott. A family member informed police of the situation,[36] and in September 1928, police found Clark at the ranch and took him into custody. Clark claimed that Northcott had kidnapped, molested and killed several young boys with the help of Northcott’s mother—Sarah Louise Northcott—and the forced participation of Clark himself.[57] The police found no complete bodies at the site—Clark said the bodies were dumped in the desert—but discovered body parts, the personal effects of several missing children, and blood-stained axes. Northcott and his mother had fled to Canada, but they were arrested and extradited to the United States. Northcott’s mother initially confessed to the murders,[36] including that of Walter Collins. She later retracted her statement, as did Gordon Northcott, who had confessed to killing five boys.[57] Gordon Northcott was subsequently convicted of the murders of Lewis and Nelson Winslow (12 and 10 respectively), and an unidentified Mexican boy,[36] though the authorities believed Northcott may have killed as many as 20.[22] He was executed by hanging in 1930. Sarah Louise Northcott was convicted of Walter Collins’ murder and served almost twelve years in prison before being paroled.[36] After Gordon Northcott’s execution, one of the boys thought to have been killed was found alive. In 1930, the residents of Wineville changed the town’s name to Mira Loma, partly to escape the notoriety brought by the case.[57]
