gone baby gone: a question on my sense of ethics

i watched this fascinating piece with minkus.

orang tersayang diculiki memang sangat menarik, jujur dan saspen. what made me like the story even more was that it made me think long and question my sense of ethics.

what will i do if i were in his shoes? return the baby to her haywire mother or leave her in the care of good people?

i like the film, i really do. the story telling was superb, the momentum never dropped and everything was smooth. i was left guessing at every point. even though i know the fake robbery was perpetrated by the character played by the buff-looking ed harris, i was squirming in my seat, nerve-wrecked by the intention of the crooked police, afraid of any possible gunshot taking the witness down.. i squirmed, my dears.

i love the way ben affleck weaved two children kidnaps into a seamless story; the way casey affleck narrated both cases with much sadness, wariness.. how the first baby was lamented its loss, yet, the latter latina kid, no one ever sought his help to find him.. only that by mere luck, he discovered the whereabouts of the kid, only too late. he shot the pervert who caused the kid's senseless death in the head. and i wondered, will i pull the trigger, too, if i were him?

will i?

i think casey affleck deserves an award for such a sterling performance. he's a vulnerable mercenary, yet unafraid of rushing ahead into action. i could feel his fear in my throat, the fast beating of the heart pumped by the adrenaline, yet i understood his actions, he needed to react to the situation instead of waiting, pondering in darkness.

for such bravery in vulnerability, i lauded him. really.

watch this movie if u have time.

it made u think of yourself. the values you have, the questions that are left lingering within..

minkus and me debated on the issue of whether we'd call the police and surrender the baby to its mother or simply walk away, knowing that we've done something to ensure her of a better life instead of the inevitable fate she'll suffer as a daughter to an addict.

minkus wanted to return the baby, that the chief has no right to her, no matter how much he and his wife dot on the baby.

me, i want to turn around and walk away. to be comfortable in the thought that she's in good hands now. but part of my head, knows it's unethical and completely against the law. i found myself contemplating to return the baby. not for her hopeless mother. but for my responsibility in upholding the amanah. human law by any rate, sucks. but, it is amanah that she needs her mother, by legal sense.

finally, i draw my conclusion. take the lesser of two evils. viewing this with my islamic principle, if returning the baby to her mother will ensure that she'd end up in worse care, i might have the liberty of tipu sunat, perhaps. of course, no such thing as tipu sunat. but if the omission of truth might help her live a much better life, i took the responsibility to walk away.

anytime.

minkus wanted to return the baby for her own reason: she pitied the baby's aunt. only to be let down by the fact that the baby's aunt doesn't have any further connection in the child's life at the end of the story.

sucks, kan?

oh, well~ c'est la vie...

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[shah]

entah kenapa, rasa nk tengok movie ni lagi..

apa yg ada di gsc @ the hub sekarang ek?