Wow!!. Clint Eastwood directed Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in this extraordinary 2008 movie that should be must watching for activists and people who care about justice and standing up to injustice, particularly police and psychiatrists who abuse their power and the system.
It's a story, based on real events from the late 1920's, about a mother who's child disappears. Then , the police report they've found him, but she tells them it is not her son. They push him on her, using the system against her. She shows the courage to challenge them.
This story will disgust and anger you as it portrays police abuses and injustice, but it will inspire you as you see her and John Malkovich stand up to police and Mayoral abuses.
Check out more at IMDB.com IMDB reports that the movie received over 32 nominations for awards including nominations for three Oscars.
I viewed the movie on HBO on demand. I give this movie six stars out of five.
Here's the trailer. Interestingly, this movie did far better internationally than in the US.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
