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Directed by David Hugh Jones |
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| Alec Baldwin |
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| Ben Kingsley |
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| Amy Irving |
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| Man avenges the death of his son and deals with the repercussions of his actions. |
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| One-word View: Powerful |
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| My mother lives in a rural community and has no cable. This is relevant because in the absence of cable and the presence of only 4 channels in the midst of a snowstorm, I found myself rummaging through my mother’s movies and encountered The Confession. I had already overdosed on her collection of action movies (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, etc.), so it seemed like a decent change. And boy what a change it was.
I like movies and books that challenge the lines between right and wrong, good and evil. In actuality, there are so few definitives and this movie did a wonderful job of bringing to question much that we seem to assume is very clear. Ben and Amy are wealthy New Yorkers whose five-year old son gets sick and due to a variety of reasons is not given proper assistance at the local hospital emergency room. The son dies and the father seeks revenge in the form of murdering the clerk, nurse, and doctor who he believes caused his child’s death through negligence. In comes Alec -- - the slick New York attorney with little or no conscience - - who has been hired to prove that the father was insane when he murdered the people. The twist is that he is not crazy and refuses to allow Alec to use that defense. There is a lot of soul searching in this movie and I found it to be a wonderful surprise. If you don’t have time to really sit and watch it, don’t bother renting it, as it requires and deserves your full attention.
“People think it’s hard to do the right thing. It’s not hard to do the right. It’s hard to know what is the right thing. Once you know what is right, then it’s hard not to do it.”
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