Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actors, among them Gwyneth Paltrow as the young cop's wife (whom we immediately perceive as good, and therefore doomed), do their best to ground this twaddle in recognizable behavior. But it is very tiresome peering through the gloom trying to catch a glimpse of something interesting, then having to avert one's eyes when it turns out to be just another brutally tormented body...
...retirement. During that week he is to break in his replacement, the young hot-shot, David Mills (Brad Pitt). There is tension between the two detectives, just as there is in every other movie that starts off with some variation of this basic theme, where the young, energetic super-cop is paired with the veteran who has lost his energy ("Lethal Weapon," "Report to the Commissioner," "Point Break" and many, many more...
...niggers would be gathered together and burned." Natalie Singer, who met Fuhrman and his partner in a hospital emergency room, said he told her, "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." Roderic Hodge, whom Fuhrman arrested on drug charges in 1987 (Hodge was acquitted), described the cop snarling from his patrol car, "I told you we'd get you, nigger...
...movie Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman, takes place in the police precinct where I lived. In the movie, the neighborhood is depicted as an urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace...
...confrontations between these people--among them, an angry mom and a tough housing cop--and Strike's clockers (so called because pushers work around the clock) are some of the film's most potent and haunting scenes. Indeed, it's almost as if the director has taken his cue from them instead of the other way around. For there is a force and focus in Lee's work, an absence of intellectual posturing and a willingness to let his material speak for itself that he has not achieved before...