So this film is about a husband-wife detective team investigating the abduction of a young girl. The girl's mother seems to know something, there's Drugs involved and ransoms and such. The main character is realistically portrayed as just some jerk who has no authority whatsoever. The cops regard him as a semi-entertaining nuisance and the non-cops regard him with overt suspicion and hostility. I literally cant imagine how being a private investigator works in this modern age. Apparently they use Facebook a lot?
Anyway, the film has a grungy, Harmony Korine-like aesthetic, full of warping clapboard and ragged, toy-strewn lawns. The Affleckian obsession with Boston is here too and that is where this film is emphatically set. It's good fun, don't get me wrong, just very easy to snark on. I more or less enjoyed the movie and enjoyed seeing the mystery unfold, knot by knot. Not bad.
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