Rookie

Kelli 2022-03-22 09:01:09

When a rookie first enters the society, his concept encounters reality. to be, or not to be. Tests professional ethics and secular wisdom.

Status Quo: Law enforcement is underworld, and the way to survive is down to earth. "You need to do something bad to gain the trust of the circle, and then you will have a chance to change everything."
Two ways: let go of your hands and feet to get the big deal done. Or stick to it in order to gain respect.

In fact, both must make sacrifices, and should be a compromise.
The veteran is too unscrupulous, playing with laws and ethics, there is no professional ethics, everything can be instrumentalized. This kind of invocation of various methods is the most successful in reality; the problem is that if something goes wrong, no one will help, because he dissolves the trust of others in him, and all friends are based on expedient interests. Novices are ethical and responsible, but they are too innocent and easy to offend other people's interests. He just exists as a professional unit and does not protect his strength and support his own resources. He will soon be killed in life.
In the film, the two people are two extreme exemplary existences, which is impossible to achieve in reality. How to take the golden mean is a profound secular wisdom.

The script is good, face the reality, truthful and powerful.

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Training Day quotes

  • Jake: [Telling Alonzo a story in a coffee shop] It was a quiet night we were rolling on Van Nuys I'm driving this Acura comes out a side street all over the median in excess I light it up hit the whaler guy drives on like I'm invisible for ten blocks before he pulls over plates were unclean so I'm watching from our unit and she's tossing the Acura she calls me over to the vehicle a snub 38 two shotguns fully loaded so she calls our supervisor and I keep searching and I find five hundred grams of meth turns out this DUI is on bail for distribution and is on his way to smoke his ex-partner before trial so we prevented a murder.

  • Jake: [Driving away from Sandman's house after the shooting] God damn it that was not cool opening fire in the middle of a neighborhood where was the Sandman? What the hell were you doing back there?

    Alonzo Harris: I was checking for narcotic activity drugs, guns, and baggies

    Jake: Cash

    Alonzo Harris: Speak on it

    Jake: She's screaming about money

    Alonzo Harris: She's just talking shit, she's talking about us getting killed

    Jake: I'm going to be on the six o'clock news in an orange suit in hand cuffs because of you with the scandals and what not it is open season on misconduct they will nail us to the wall

    Alonzo Harris: Listen, you're in a privileged position to learn a thing or two keep your mouth shut and your eyes open you say you're serious about doing some real police this is the place to learn but if this kind of shit shakes you up maybe you should go back to your division you have to decide if you're a wolf or a sheep

    [Alonzo shows Jake his tattoo, after pulling over on the side of the highway]

    Alonzo Harris: Get your ink