In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
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The problem is that I had other plans for todays column.
Im serious theres a spreadsheet of ideas and everything.
Recent installments of this column have beenmoodyandfrustrated, in a way that makes me uncomfortable.
I need a break!
Id planned to mix it up, to write something fun again!
But then, last night, for no particular reason, I decided to watchGone Baby Gone.
A part of me wanted to know ifGone Baby Goneheld up.
I am talking about Boston.)
The year is 2007.
When a young girl goes missing, her aunt hires the young couple to investigate the disappearance.
Helene is estranged from her older brother and sister-in-law, even though they share a house.
He has a vaguely illicit history that gives him a familiarity with some of the towns players.
Face-to-face with Cheese, we can see why Patrick is good at what he does.
This is just unbelievable.
The whole force standing outside the house, guarding the sidewalk with their arms crossed.
I mean, are the kidnappers coming back?)
and a rat, and I know a lot of people.
To quote another movie about fussy Irish gangsters: Its what it is.
Except Cheese, sitting across from him, doesnt seem all that menacing.
Hes no scarier than anyone else in this movie carrying a gun.
Whats not accounted for is how cartoonishGone Baby Gonerenders this character the way hes a color-by-numbers dealer fromThe Wire.
But Cheese gets the movies best line.
Cuz shes gone, baby.Gone.
But, in a greater sense, it is truly so, so funny.
Hearing someone say the title of the movie during the movie maam!
There are no words for how much it rules.
Its half-vindication, half-hat tip.
(They know this is the money line, too!)
Cuz shes gone, baby.
Even the intimate flourish of him saying baby; its like, I hear you my guy, Igetit.
That money is gone, baby.
When my friend dropped his AirPod onto the subway tracks?
Its gone, baby.
Shes gone, baby.Gone.
I have decided to retire them, making them gone, baby.Gone.
But my last lick of common sense?
