So, when Mrs. Morrison told us we has to write a monologue where we had to express a situations where human rights where not respected, I first was kind of thrown back a little bit because I have never written or acted a monologue before, and the fact that it is our monologue we are presenting, makes it much more nerve-racking but challenging as well. So at first, I thought of doing the typical skit where a child gets abused or something in that matter, but then I remembered a movie I saw recently that I loved. Loved doesn't really express how I felt about this movie; it was INCREDIBLE, AMAZING, I absolutely loved it. It is called Changeling and Angelina Jolie as well a John Malkovitch act in it. It is not based on a real story, but actually a real story; they haven't changed anything from how it was in reality and that is one of the main reasons why I found this movie so intriguing, personal, and interesting, as well as emotional. Basically, it talks about how this mother's son disappears in the 1920's, and how the L.A police was not were efficient and organized at that time and how they trick her by giving her another child that was not his and trying to convince her that that was her son. Because at that time, women were not strong and they didn't fight for their selves, they manipulate her and control her so much that at one moment, she actually believes that maybe that is her son and that she is just in shock. However, later on you can see a struggle between wanting her son and her own personality which is very fearful and very hold back, which makes it much easier for the police to manipulate her, even placing her in a mental hospital just because she was telling the world what was going on and how the L.A police was not listening to her and not helping her find her son. What I found very irritating throughout the movie was that there were times where people attacked her, shout at her, or try to tell her that that was her son when it was obvious he wasn't, or acuse her of something, where she was completely introvertive and didn't stand up for herself. In this parts I was just going crazy and shouting because it was so annoying that she wasn't fighting and that she wasn't getting stressed that this people were saying that this kid was her son when it wasn't and everybody was treating her like she was crazy. If I was her, I would have screamed and shouted to them to make them understand; this parts of the movies are so stressful and annoying I can't even begin to tell you, but that's what makes the movie so good. It makes the audience feel what that woman was feeling at that moment; so useless and completely alone. Moreover, that is why I wanted to do a monologue about this, because it's not only unique, but I really feel connected to it and I think this will help me to perform it better in a way; and it is a clear situation where the rights of this woman are not being respected and while the police was doing nothing about this, her real child was being kidnapped by a serial killer, which makes everything in general much more infuriating. Finally, I am not sure yet if I am going to do the monologue from the point of view of the mother, of a spectator, or of one of the police guys who knows the truth. I am fighting between this and I am going to ask people what they think I should do because right now I have no idea what's my next step.
Here there's the link of the trailer with commentary of the movie so that you are more aware of what I am talking about:
Changeling Trailer and Commentary
Here there are some pictures of the real Christine Collins and her son Walter Collins:


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