When Lionel saw how his sister(Helene) was treating her daughter Amanda he wanted to remove Amanda from Helene's hand's, so detective Remy, The Police Captain and Lionel came up with a plan to free Amanda from the uncaring mother. They kidnapped Amanda and faked her death so no one would care to find her. Patrick the private investigator (hired by Lionel wife) discovered the truth about what they did and soon enough their would be a battle between consequentialism and ethical absolutism.
The three man believed in consequentialism. They believed that if they leave Amanda with Helene there would be a consequence in the end, so they left Amanda in the hands of the Police Captain only for the interest of Amanda. Everything they did, the kidnapping, faking her death was to protect Amanda from her own mother.
Now Patrick he believes in ethical absolutism. Patrick knowing that Amanda was better off with the Police Captain he didn't think what the Captain and the two man did wasn't right, he thought he should return Amanda to Helen, hoping that the experience that Helene suffered would make her change and be a better mom to Amanda.
The movie portrays both consequentialism and ethical absolutism. The movie shows that in the end Patrick didn't feel bad about what he did, he felt more relief then anything, even though the action of telling the truth had the consequence of the mother not changing at all.
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