In the movie "Gone Baby Gone" there is a situation, The police captain, Remy, and Lionel had taken Amanda away from her mom. Remy and Lionel had given Amanda to the police captain so his family and him could take care of her. People thought she got kidnapped but Amanda was taken away from her mother Helene because she was a drug addict . Helene didn't take care of Amanda, would go out to get high and not care about who takes care of her daughter. Patrick and Angie were the detectives that got hire to solve the case about amanda who kidnapped her and where she was.
Patrick and angie didn't know that the captain had taken her. Angie saw what type of person Helene was, and when they fouund out that the captain had taken her, Angie agreed that it would of been better if Amanda stayed with the captain and be sure that amanda was safe. at the end of the movie Patrick told on the captain because he promised Helena he would get her kid back . Helena kept on saying how she would change if she got Amanda back but at the end she didn't change she was the same as before. Patrick would go check on them and saw that Amanda would of been better of with The Captain. Patrick started to change his mind about what he had done, angie left him because she didn't agree with what his decision to make take Amanda back to her mom, she wanted Amanda do be with the captain anything except the mom.
In the movie they show us a bit of Ethical absolutism and Consequentialism.
Ethical Absolutism is when you belive that when something happens there is no good side or bad side to it . If you belive in ethical absolutism you would think of hitler and osamas death as just a murder not something to be happy about. You wouldn't think of it as justice . murder is murder a lie is a lie it doesn't matter because if you killed some one you just killed them you didn't do it for a good cause . if you lie you lied you dont lie for a good cause or a bad cause. this is what patrick believes in it was wrong for them to take Amanda and lie about it she belongs with her mom.
Consequentialism is when you do something for a good result that helps out others. when you are little your parents tell you lies about santa: etc but they don't do it to be mean to you they do it so that you can be happy and they get the result they want your happyness. if you believe in Consequentialism you believe that hitler and osamas death was a good thing because they wont harm more people. this is what The police Captain , Remy, Angie and Lionel believed in they took Amanda from her mom so she could be safe and have a good future, they didn't want her to end up like her mom . so Consequentialism is what you do your way to get the results you want.
I think that the movie shows more of a Consequetialism side because in the movie Patrick shot the guy that raped and killed little kids, he did it because he wanted to make sure the guy won'tdo it anymore. I think that patrick has two sides to him self . Remy as well he had planted cocaine as evidence because he had seen some parents house, and they were addicts but their kid was good he was neat, smart and decent. he used that cocaine as evidence to get the parents taken away and the kid to go to a better place. That also goes for The Captain ,Angie and Lionel they had taken amanda from her mom no matter if it was wrong . They wanted whats they thought was good for her
I think its just what way you view things.
(1)i think this offers a good summary about the movie in the first paragraph. It introduces the characters well and their position in the movie. The essay describes the situation.
ReplyDelete(2) You do a well job in describing whose ethics in the movie follow consequentialism and which characters in the movie follow ethical absolutism. good examples in defining these two ideas.
(3)This essay also states that the movie takes sides in consequentialism. You have a good example as to why you think the movie takes side on consequentialism.