This movie had a lot of different point of views. Everybody thought they knew what was best for the little girl Amanda and wanted to help. Police Captain, Remy, and Lionel believe in Consequentialism. They felt that stealing the little girl and giving her a better life was the right thing to do in their eyes .Police captain Remy and Lionel wanted to do the right thing but their hearts wasn’t in the right place, their priorities wrongs. Captain Remy wanted the little girl because he lost his daughter to kidnapping and sought to give the little girl a better life. When Patrick went to the captains house to confront him the captain try’s to tell him if you see or knows what he knows from years of working on the force then he would understand why he is doing what he is doing. He wanted to spread happiness and relieve suffering this is why he believes in consequentialism. Lionel was in it for the money at first but when things didn’t go his way the plan changed. He wanted to keep everything a secret but slipped up once he told Patrick that he knew Amanda’s uncle.
Patrick and Angie also have different looks on the situation. Patrick believed in morality that you must respect law; follow your duty, to do the right thing, and to not go against god. This is why when he shot the child molester in the back of his head he felt guilty and shameful. He said “if you fill ashamed that’s just god way of saying you did something wrong”. Furthermore this is the reason he gave back Amanda to her mother. Angie felt the same way as captain Remy and Lionel did but without the conspiracy. She wanted Patrick to just forget about it and act like he did not know the captain had Amanda. She also gave him an ultimatum which was she would not stay with him if he called the cops. She knew that Amanda would have a better life if she would have stayed with the captain and his family instead of her mother (which did drugs).
I felt that this movie didn’t really take any sides it just showed the viewers that doing the right thing is always the answer but how do we know what the right thing is. Patrick knew that calling the cops to pick up Amanda was his duty. But at the end of the movie when he is in Amanda’s mother’s house you begin to wonder is he now questioning his actions. He knew giving this little girl back to her mother was the right thing to do but was it the best thing to do in the long wrong. Captain Remy and Lionel were doing the wrong things for a good reason. Everybody thought they was doing the right thing but how would they know what’s the right thing for sure?
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