In the movie "Gone Baby Gone", we are invited to join the quest of Patrick, a detective, who is hired to bring back a daughter of an addicted women who has been kidnapped. Patrick along with Angie, his girlfriend, are looking for Amanda, who is kidnapped in misterious conditions in her mother's house in Boston. With helps from his friends in the street, Patrick finds proofs that could lead him to Amanda; however, Amanda's death is announced after Patrick attempts to bring her back. One year later, Patrick finds Amanda in the Police captain's house, who explained to Patrick that it was a story entirely made up by Amanda's uncle, Lionel, to provide Amanda with a better life away from her addicted mother, but Patrick brought her back to her mother.
In the movie, we are presented with two different sides, which go against each another as to their belief about Amanda life. We have the consequentialists with the Police captain, Remi, Lionel and Angie that believe that Amanda should stay with the Police captain that will provide her with a better life. Therefore, it doesn't matter how immoral the kidnapping was, it is justified by the fact that she will have a better life.
On the other hand, we have the ethical absolutism with Patrick who brings back Amanda to his mother though Angie tell him she will leave him if he does so. What he did. He also refused to kill anybody else even if he will face the same circumstances that made him kill a guy in the movie.
As far as I am concerned, I believe that the movie supports the idea of leaving Amanda to the Police captain because at the end of movie a scene between presents Helene who leave Amanda to Patrick because she had a date and couldn't wait for Amanda's nanny, but the most relevant thing in this scene is that we can see that Amanda wasn't as happy as when she was with the captain.
Hey, my name is Alysia and I did a peer review on your Consequentialism essay.In paragraph #1 you explain what the movie is about well I get the gist of the storyline and the plot of the movie.In paragraph #2 speaks about the characters that are consequentialists. You can also add why returning her back to her mom wasn’t an option.In Paragraph # 3 when you’re talking about ethical absolutism and Patrick you can go in to details as to why Patrick felt like Amanda should go back to Helene. “He also refused to kill anybody else even if he will face the same circumstances that made him kill a guy in the movie” what are the circumstances?
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