Bud is also a self-righteous man, even though he never speaks out. His refusal to accept bribes proved his morals, but he also beat criminals, arbitrarily planted suspects, and abused lynching to extract confessions in order to protect his partners from other morals. There are two ethics before and after.
The first half of the film seems to be black and white, and we unknowingly mixed the two morals before and after Bard. And Ed's resolute distinction between these two ethics is also considered unnecessary or even excessive.
However, the plot that followed took a turn. Through the trial of three black suspects, we have seen Ed's true skills. The Bud partner proved to be tainted and questioned the second morality we had just accepted.
As for Jack, he is indeed an interesting character. Well-dressed, constantly accepting small bribes from the newspaper, and deliberately creating scandals in order to break the news and embarrass the newspaper, he is simply a typical corrupt element. However, he is not completely lost in morality like Dudley. Ed found him, grabbed his handle, and forced him to cooperate with him. And this handle is precisely his only remaining morality.
Dudley, the old man just came up with a look of vicissitudes, and guided Ed and Bud with a cheerful face, and he really deceived me. Until he smiled and turned around to kill Jack cleanly, it was really surprising, and I had to admire the screenwriter's level. The trick arranged by Rollo Tomasi is also very good, and it is unexpected that I have to sigh the level of the screenwriter.
At the end of the film, Justice slowly blurred. Ed eventually acquiesced to the "arrangement" of the police station, really don't know that this is moral? In fact, returning to morality itself is a standard established by convention or consensus. Morality itself is not standard, because it is impossible to know exactly how everyone in the society judges everything and every practice. It is simply Arrow's law of morality. So there is a potential danger, that is, the gradual deviation of moral standards. If the police know that a suspect is guilty but cannot be punishable by the procedure, then it may be moral (better than letting an unscrupulous lawyer help the criminal get away because of the procedure); but if this becomes the practice, the police may direct the criminal directly to save trouble. Kill and fake the scene of the criminal trying to resist, and maybe the crime does not lead to death; then we will ask the police how to judge whether a person is guilty and why they have such a right. Therefore, my personal opinion is that Bard's second morality is dangerous, but it is feasible.
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The actors in the film are pretty strong.
Russell has a miserable face and is muscular. He is really suitable for acting as a frontline policeman. In the film, he succeeded in creating an impulsive but intelligent image, which is unscrupulous and principled in order to achieve the goal. Kevin Spacey is very suitable to play a different kind of person, but this bitter master is also a few important roles that I know will eventually hang up. It feels a bit familiar to see him smiling and shot dead. The last smiling suicide in "The Seven Deadly Sins" and the last smiling death in "American Beauty" is really hard work. Gimberg is quite beautiful, playing a social flower with ease, but personally thinks that she has a good figure, average appearance, and looks old without makeup. It is most suitable to play Eminem in "8 Mile".
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