百年50部英文烧脑电影赏析:[13]Gone Baby Gone 失踪的宝贝

Private investigator Patrick Kenzie(Casey Affleck)and his partner/girlfriend Angie Gennaro(Michelle Monaghan)witness a televised plea by a woman named Helene McCready(Amy Ryan)for the return of her missing daughter Amanda McCready(Madeline O'Brien), who was abducted with her favorite doll “Mirabelle” Patrick and Angie are then hired by the child's aunt Beatrice to find Amanda and discover that Helene and her boyfriend “Skinny Ray” had recently stolen money from Cheese, a local Haitian drug lord. After Ray is murdered, Patrick and Angie join the police detectives investigating the case, Remy Bressant(Ed Harris)and Nick Poole(John Ashton), to arrange a trade of the money for Amanda. Captain Jack Doyle(Morgan Freeman)shows Patrick a telephone transcript of the drug lord setting up an exchange for Amanda. The exchange at a nearby quarry in Ouincy is botched and Amanda is believed to have drowned, as her doll is found in the quarry and returned to Helene. Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, takes responsibility for the death and goes into early retirement.

Two months later, a seven-year-old boy is abducted in Everett and Patrick receives information that the boy was taken by a known child molester. After entering his house and finding evidence of the abducted boy, Patrick returns with Remy and Nick to rescue him. They are seen by the residents and Nick is shot. Patrick enters the house during the shootout and finds one of the residents dead. He retreats into the child molester's room, where he finds the boy's dead body; he then shoots the child molester in the back of the head in a fit of rage_

Nick later dies of his wounds. Trying to alleviate Patrick's guilt over the events at the house, Remy unthinkingly confides that he once planted evidence on someone with the help of “Skinny Ray”——whom he had initially told Patrick he didn't know. After Nick's funeral, Patrick speaks to a police officer, who tells him that Remy had been asking about the drug lord's stolen money before the drug lord knew it was missing. Patrick then questions Beatrice's husband Lionel in a bar and pieces together that Lionel and Remy had conspired to stage a fake kidnapping in order to take the drug money for themselves and to save Amanda from her mother's neglectful parenting. At that point, Remy(trying to cover for his earlier mistake)enters the bar; while wearing a latex mask and holding a shotgun, and stages a robbery. He points the shotgun at Lionel's head, but the bartender shoots Remy twice in the back. Remy flees and is pursued by Patrick to the rooftop of a nearby building, where he dies,

Patrick is questioned by the police about Remy's death and learns that the police never had a phone transcript like the one that Doyle had shown him prior to the botched exchange，Patrick and Angie drive to Doyle's home，where Patrick finds Amanda living happily with Doyle and his wife; Doyle was part of the phony kidnapping all along. Patrick threatens to call the authorities, but Doyle attempts to convince him that Amanda is better off living with them than with her mother Patrick leaves and discusses the choices with Angie, who says she will leave him if he calls the police, since she believes that Amanda is much better off with the Doyles. In the next scene, the police arrive, Doyle is arrested, Amanda is returned to her mother amidst heavy publicity, and Patrick and Angie break up.

Patrick later visits Amanda as Helene is about to leave on a date with someone she met during the publicity over her daughter's disappearance; at the same time, she makes a play for Patrick himself. Helene informs Patrick that Beatrice has been forbidden to visit and is upset about her husband's arrest. Helene has no babysitter for Amanda and when asked, she tells Patrick that Dottie(Helene's friend)will watch her, even though she has yet to ask Dottie herself. Patrick volunteers to watch Amanda, who is holding her old doll and watching television. Patrick asks Amanda about Mirabelle, only to hear Amanda inform him that her doll's name is “Annabelle” — implying that Helene did not even know the name of her daughter's favorite toy.

私家侦探帕特里克·肯赞(卡西·阿弗莱克饰)和女友兼拍档安吉·加纳罗(米歇尔·莫娜汉饰)看到一个电视上公开的寻人请求：一位母亲海伦·麦克格雷迪(艾米·莱安饰)称自己的女儿阿曼达·麦克格雷迪(玛德琳·奥布莱恩饰)被诱拐，手中抱有她心爱的名叫“米拉贝尔”的娃娃。紧接着，小女孩的姨妈碧翠斯找到帕特里克和安吉，请他们对此事进行调查。他们调查发现，最近海伦和她的男朋友——人称“小气瑞”偷了海地毒枭Cheese的钱，瑞随后被谋杀。帕特里克和安吉与警员瑞米·布莱森特(艾德·哈里斯饰)和尼克·普尔(约翰·阿什顿饰)联手，准备用钱赎回阿曼达。警长杰克·道尔(摩根·弗里曼饰)向帕特里克出示了与毒枭谈判交换阿曼达的电话记录，交易原定在昆西城的一个采石场。但最后交易未能成功，警方认为小女孩已经被溺死，因为他们在采石场找到了她的娃娃并还给了海伦。道尔对此事负全责，提前退休了，其实他的女儿在几年前也被谋杀了。

两个月后，帕特里克接到消息称，一名7岁男孩在埃佛里特被一名出名的儿童猥亵犯诱拐。帕特里克在男孩房间进行了详细侦查，找到了线索，便立即找到瑞米和尼克一起去解救男孩。解救过程中，他们被屋内的人发现，尼克中枪，帕特里克听到枪声进入房间，发现屋内一人已被击毙。他又转向儿童猥亵犯的房间，发现男孩已经死去，愤怒之下，他一枪击中猥亵犯的后脑勺。

尼克因伤势严重不治身亡。为了减轻这件事在帕特里克心中产生的愧疚感，瑞米和他聊天中无意讲起自己曾在“小气瑞”的帮助下为他人制造证据，然而帕特里克记得他曾说过瑞对此事并不知情。在尼克的葬礼后，帕特里克与警方交谈，得知瑞米在毒枭发现自己钱被盗之前就一直追问此事，觉得有些蹊晓。帕特里克在一间小酒吧找到碧翠斯的老公莱昂内尔，追问他一些情况，发现莱昂内尔和瑞米联合制造了一场假绑架案，目的是拿到那笔被偷资金，同时让阿曼达离开她不称职的母亲。此时，瑞米为了掩盖之前犯下的错误，带着面具手持猎枪进入了酒吧，企图制造一起抢劫案。他用枪指着莱昂内尔的头，但这时酒保向瑞米后背开了两枪。瑞米仓皇而逃，帕特里克紧追其后，在附近一栋楼房的屋顶发现了瑞米的尸体。

帕特里克在回警局做询问笔录时，警局称从来没有道尔交给他看的那张在交易前的电话记录。帕特里克和安吉驾车前往道尔家，发现阿曼达正在和道尔夫妇幸福地生活在一起，原来道尔也是假绑架案的谋划参与者。帕特里克威胁说要报警，道尔极力劝阻，说阿曼达在自己身边的生活比以前在母亲身边更加幸福快乐。帕特里克陷入了困难的选择中，他离开后与安吉商量，安吉支持阿曼达留在道尔夫妇家，如果帕特里克坚持报警，她便会离开他。镜头转换到下一个场景，警察来到道尔家，道尔被捕，媒体对阿曼达回到母亲的身边进行了大量报道，帕特里克和安吉分手了。

后来，帕特里克去看望阿曼达，海伦正好要出门赴约，约会对象是她在媒体报道她女儿失踪案时结识的;海伦同时还在百般勾引帕特里克。她告诉他从今以后禁止碧翠斯来访，由于丈夫被捕，碧翠斯现在非常伤心。帕特里克问海伦为什么没有给阿曼达请保姆，海伦说好友多蒂会帮忙照看她，但她此时还没有拜托多蒂。帕特里克主动要求照看阿曼达，他看到阿曼达正抱着娃娃在看电视，便问她娃娃“米拉贝尔”的情况，只听阿曼达说：“娃娃的名字叫‘安娜贝尔’。”这暗示海伦连自己女儿最喜爱的娃娃的名字都不知道。

abduct[æb'dʌkt]vt. 绑架;诱拐

quarry['kwɔri]vi. 费力地找

doll[dɔl]n. 洋娃娃;玩偶;无头脑的美丽女人

molester[mə'lestə]n. 猥亵者;性骚扰者

alleviate[ə'li:vieit]vt. 减轻，缓和

conspire[kən'spaiə]vi. 共谋;协力

rooftop['ru:ftɔp]n. 屋顶

transcript['trænskript]n. 成绩单;抄本，副本;文字记录

重点掌握

■ … pieces together that Lionel and Remy had conspired to stage a fake kidnapping...

piece together是英语中一个常用短语，如果你piece together the truth about something, you gradually discover it. 也就是“渐渐弄清(真相)”的意思，该短语在文中就是这个意思。比如：They've pieced together his movements for the last few days before his death. 他们已经渐渐查明了他死前最后几天里的行踪。另外，该短语还有“把……一点一滴地拼起来;拼凑;用零碎的东西拼合成”的意思，比如：The study helps us piece together a fuller picture of what we hear. 这项研究帮助我们拼凑出一幅完整的听觉图画。

Casey Affleck Gone Interview by www.femail.com.au

What research and preparation was necessary before you started filming Gone Baby Gone?

I had the advantage of growing up in this area and being familiar with the accent and the attitude of the people that live there. That was more helpful than I thought it might be. I tried to learn what a real private investigator does on a daily basis and what these cases are really like. I knew they would not be glamorous but more mundane. They spend most of their time sitting at a desk, working on a computer and calling people. When I came to the project it was about working with Ben and trying to find the character together and making sure we were on the same page.

Working with your brother raises the notion of whether there was almost some kind of ESP going on because you are close?

I wish there had been ESP because it would have saved us four fights a day. Unfortunately, we have to vocalise our thoughts. We disagree and because we are brothers we openly disagree. So there would be quite a few times when people would be sitting around the set waiting for us to work out our disagreements. I think it actually helped in the long run because we could arrive at the same page.

您在拍摄《失踪的宝贝》前需要做什么研究和准备工作呢?

我有一点优势，由于我从小在这里长大，熟悉当地居民的口音和思想观念，这点给予了我意想不到的帮助。我试图了解一名真正的私家侦探的日常生活，了解他们所接触的案件究竟是怎样的。其实他们平时并不像人们想象的那样深不可测，而是生活平凡普通。他们每天会坐在办公桌前处理电脑文件或打电话。当我开始拍摄的时候，便与本合作，一起挖掘人物的个性，保持我们对剧本理解的一致性。

和如此亲近的兄弟一起工作，你觉得你们之间有超感力存在吗?

我倒是希望我们之间有超感力，这样我们就不用一天争执四次了。我们会把自己的想法说出来，正因为是兄弟，我们会把分歧摆在台面上。好几次，大家等我们把分歧解决了才能开始工作。但从长远角度讲，我们的意见达成一致对工作是有益的。

《失踪的宝贝》是本·阿弗莱克最喜欢的小说。也是本·阿弗莱克真正意义上的处女作，虽然之前他曾执导过两部影片，可惜都未能登上院线。

安吉·加纳罗这个角色在现实生活中的原型就是作家丹尼斯·莱汉的妻子。

本来影片预计2007年12月28日在英国上映，然而由于当地出现了一件与影片中描述的类似的案件：4岁的马德琳·迈卡恩(Madeleine McCann)在随家人去葡萄牙的阳光海滩度假时，在公寓中无故失踪。所以，该片不得不将上映日期延后。