The 1997 crime film is based on James Arrowry's novel of the same name, guided by three different police figures played by Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce, to give an insight into the corrupt and criminal Los Angeles of the 1950s.
Today's sharing of bacteria will not go into detail about the details of this movie, after all, this movie focuses on the relationship between various characters and the development of the case, today's sharing of bacteria mainly talks to you about the way the police handle cases in this movie.
Before Ed Eisley (Guy Pierce), a highly educated police officer, other cops liked to torture, kill criminals on the spot, perjury to get criminals in jail, and even kill criminals who were incapable of resisting. From the public's point of view, this is not very proper, but the danger of handling cases in the United States, which is legally armed with guns, is indeed very large, and although the sneak attack on criminals is disgraceful, it reduces the casualties of police officers.
After Ed Eisley began to take power, another rape case was discovered through a murder case, and the Mexican girl who was the victim testified that the murderer left the scene of the case very late, which also confirmed that the murderer did indeed commit the murder and also gave the murderer the death penalty.
But then the victims told Ed Asley the truth after the case was over, and who would care if they weren't falsely accused of killing white people, who would care if a teenage girl of color was raped. There is a mistake in the translation of the following figure, here is justice rather than revenge, so is justice obtained through illegal means still justice? This is a paradoxical question.
Similar to this case is police officer Bud White (Russell Crowe), who has always used the means of planting bribes to protect women, because of family reasons he has always hated people who bully women, he can always use various means to charge men, but protect many women who have difficulty obtaining evidence.
Is he a good guy? Yes, but what he has done has always violated the law, but if he adopts a formal way of handling cases, it may be difficult to obtain the testimony of the victims, which is also the sadness of the times.
The most meaningful scene in this film is the scene where detective Ed Esley sneaks up on his boss from behind at the end, he understands that his right to speak is better than his boss, if other police officers can't convict their boss at all, so he kills his boss behind his back.
At the beginning of the film, detective Ed Esley personally told his boss that he could not do those illegal ways of handling cases, but after seeing the real dark side, he changed himself, and it was also a helpless move to use illegal means to fight crime.
The law and the rules are two-way, which not only ensures that suspects will not be treated inhumanely when the police handle cases, but also allows prisoners to have a certain sense of security and will not be broken, but in that special era, the police can only do all kinds of illegal acts for the sake of justice in their hearts.
In fact, the public likes this kind of unconventional way of handling cases, as long as it is really for the people, but this kind of case handling methods is not supervised, it is easy to make more violations of the law and even have the police embezzlement and bribery in the case handling time, so this is an ideal way to handle cases, peacetime or believe in laws and rules.