WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

If you haven’t seen this movie and want to see it without knowing the ending, don’t read this until after seeing the movie.

I saw this movie the other night and, while it is a movie that succeeds on many levels, including (most prominently) the superb acting and dialogue, I also found it deeply troubling. The story is a gripping mystery about a child abduction set in the all-too-gritty South Boston area where the director, Ben Affleck, and his brother and star, Casey Affleck, grew up. It’s also a place in which you would never want to see a kid be condemned to live if you had a brain in your head. The only thing worse than imagining a kid being raised in this neghborhood is imagining what might happen to a kid after being kidnapped there.