Regarding the title of the film "Training Day", the mainland's translation is "Training Day"---straightforward, not exciting enough; I like the translation in Taiwan, "Shocking Education"---hitting your head with a drumstick, Very shocking and very educational!
I have seen countless cop movies, there are good cops and bad cops. What caught me off guard was that, despite reading a lot, I couldn't make a minimal reaction to whether Denzel Washington's character was right or wrong within the opening half hour of the film. At one point, I saw the little white policeman as a rookie in reality, weak, dumb, and seemingly upright but actually stupid; and the black policeman as my brother, mentor, and successful person. The evolution of the plot leads to the plausibility of value judgments to such an extent. The power of the script is evident. Of course, the most fundamental is the lack of in-depth understanding of the police profession.
There is a saying: The bandits in the past were in the mountains, but now the bandits are in the police. This sentence refers to "bandits", not "police". "Police" is a neutral word, and more often people are willing to believe that it represents "justice, integrity and light". "Bandits" need no explanation, downright evil, horrible and dark.
The black policeman played by Denzel Washington is a police officer who is both good and evil. His white apprentice is a young policeman who is obsessed with professional ethics, ideals, and bottom lines. Washington is in the throes of killing someone he can't afford to lose at a casino. So he tried his best to mobilize all the resources he could mobilize, including a group of "bad police", to kill rich drug dealer friends and hack his drug money. At the same time, he set a trap for his white apprentice, ready to find a scapegoat. Washington fully thought that after a day of shocking education, his rookie apprentices would obey him obediently, so to speak. Unexpectedly, the performance of this white rookie police officer was unexpected. The plot unfolds all the way until the drug dealer is killed, and the little policeman is completely shocked and awakened, abandoning the value judgment that was vague and shaken before. Next is the counterattack. In the end, justice triumphed over evil. The word police is not tarnished. (It was promised not to retell the plot, but I didn’t do it)
When I watched this film, the biggest gain was that I found out that the police is really a dangerous profession. It does not mean that dealing with danger is always in danger of life, but that the police is a profession that is easy to distort and degenerate. Even if an angel has dealt with the devil a lot, it is easy to become a devil himself, and he is a more terrible devil. Bandits in open fire are terrible, and bandits in police uniforms are even more terrible.
why? Why is there a fall? Why is there a twist? At the beginning, didn't the black police also recite the oath of admission aloud and swore to tears? Who can guarantee that the rookie police officer who is the embodiment of justice will not be the same degenerate after 20 years? The film does not give an answer, it can only be left to the audience to think about.
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