"Changeling" is beautifully wrought, but it has the abiding fault of righteously indignant filmmaking: it congratulates us for feeling what we already feel — in this case, contempt for psychiatry used as coercion and for long-discredited male-chauvinist attitudes.
The game congratulates us for our skill, even though such "combos" are often simply fortuitous – but our brain gets a pleasure rush anyway.
There's also a creepy subplot about a mass murderer in the desert, one of whose victims may be the missing boy, but, in the end, the movie congratulates us for indignant feelings that we already have.
"All I know is that if President Chirac calls and congratulates us, no one can accuse him of hopping on the bandwagon," the French team leader Antoine Goetschy said.
Someone congratulates us on a promotion and we immediately counter that the better candidate dropped out of the race.
The facilitator comes in moments after our timer hits zero, and congratulates us: "Wow, you guys were SO close!" Those on coke promptly run out to the lockers containing our belongings eager to do more lines in the washroom.
