Melodrama of a parent bird.

With rotleuchtendem Schmollmund fighting Angelina Jolie as a mother in Los Angeles against the corrupt cops Zwanziger: "The third son is a perfect blend of genre Frauenmelodram and police detective - and evokes the self-healing powers of Obama's America.

 

Umflorte black eyes under dark Hutkrempe? like a silent movie icon Clint Eastwood has directed his lead actress Angelina Jolie in the scene. The colors he has made this historic crime drama, located in Los Angeles in 1928, largely washed out. Only the mouth of the Jolie glows red. The Surprising: First puts Eastwood, Hollywood's most expensive Pinup Mama survive into the big picture, then it shrinks in the course of the film on human format.

This is nothing Laszives out of Jolie's lips. Red is simply the best signal color, and her mouth stings much besungener sole apparent because in their role as a mother so desperate somehow missing her boys the way home must shine through depressive Los Angeles in the late Twenties and violent criminals corrupt policemen to ensure terror.

Finally, in "The third son," a genre mixture of Frauenmelodram and police detective from prison drama and serial killer thriller, guaranteed to historical events.

The film is reported to one of the young mother Christine Collins (Jolie), the authorities after the missing report of her son a false boys home and after their revolt in psychiatry is locked. And secondly, by a psychopath, based on an isolated farm kills 20 children. The case is shown as "Wineville Chicken Murders", he was in the tabloid media ausgeschlachtet.

Actually, "The third son," a Schauermär by the intrusion of the archaic in the civil society says. It requires no explicit violence, the monstrosity of the crimes nachzuzeichnen.

The horror in this Los Angeles detective is spreading mainly through the peaceful change of perspective, Eastwood with the action and thematic strands forward and pushing each other.

The face of the desperate mother shows the tracks, the authorities arbitrariness and terror psychiatry leave - the story of the children Schlächters but is disturbing monologues told by those boys who escaped his mouth.

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The third son
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Film clip: "This is not my son"
Film clip: "It is 10 centimeters bigger"
Film clip: "Good night, Mom"

140 minutes Eastwood is time for his detailed reconstruction of events. In doing so, he is less the real Los Angeles to? but that city and all those people, as the dream factory in the early days of the classical Hollywood cinema to the big screen has brought.

The stylization of the Jolie-suffering mother remembers about the Frauenmelodramen of the silent film pioneer David W. Griffith, the description of the area daily with chain-smoking cops in the crime scenarios of former reporter and later Grand screenwriter Ben Hecht. The court finally scenes are an echo of the pro-democracy anthems a Frank Capra. Thus, the corrupt police force at the end thanks to a citizens' movement of the rebels process.