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The police are the 'thin blue line' that separates a democratic society from totalitarianism
Tristin 2022-01-27 08:03:18
"The End of Vigilance" almost uses the perspective of a documentary to truly show the life and death work stories of two ordinary American police officers. Different from traditional police and gangster films, it gives people the feeling that the film lacks a lot of commercial film flavor. After watching it, I was deeply touched, not only because of the iron-blooded friendship between the two patrolmen in the film, but there is no difference between the police and the criminals to some extent. The former is maintaining a system, while the latter is destroying a system. The former can be called a hero after he dies in the line of duty, while the latter tragically died on the street but is only cast aside by the world, "You violated the law, the law was not made by me, I may not agree with it, but it must be strictly enforced." This is one of the meaningful passages in the title, and it is also the life of a policeman.
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Brian Taylor: I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I *can* be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.
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Mike Zavala: My Grandmother said, "If you can live without her, then man-up and cut her off. Don't string her along."