The film selects police officers from the Brooklyn area to speak, and uses the fate and choices of the three police officers to show a Brooklyn with infinite meaning and reveal the life of a group of special groups. It may be sadness, helplessness, pain and truth.
Eddie Dugan is an old police officer who is about to retire. He has spent most of his life in Brooklyn. Conflicts can be handled in a smooth and sophisticated manner, so he never contains bullets in his pistol, and never fires. But this kind of easy and low-key attitude also made other police officers in the bureau look down on him: a policeman must have been through bullets and bullets, how could he be so idly mingled for decades. Before retiring, I wanted to spend a few days at the end, but the superior suddenly assigned him to lead the newcomer to study. The indifferent attitude when dealing with problems on the road angered the new young policeman. The newcomer asked for a change of instructor the next day, so Eddie took another newcomer on the road the next day. On this day, Eddie knew that the young and energetic newcomer had been killed during the conflict with the other person the day before yesterday. He lost his mind for a while and asked the newcomer now to mediate a dispute, but unexpectedly, because of the conflict between the police and the people, the newcomer had a serious relationship with the parties. Fired twice. The guilty Eddie was in pain. He was beaten and beaten for a lifetime without any damage. Two children who had just embarked on a police career were killed and the other murdered. When his superiors asked him to pass false testimony to improve the image of Brooklyn police, Eddie resolutely refused, and he retired. As a policeman in New York and even the most chaotic area in the United States, Eddie has been here for nothing. It can be said that he is not a good policeman, but it is quite difficult to retreat in such chaos and filth. At the same time, Eddie has no family and has always maintained a close relationship with a prostitute. However, Eddie is not a degenerate policeman. When he stumbled upon the missing girl who was looking for in the police station, he retired resolutely and resolutely loaded his pistol with the only bullet and followed him...
Thrall has been fighting for a long time in the most dangerous areas. He has been born and died several times. He has done his duty. He has a sick wife and several children, and his wife is newly pregnant and pregnant with twins, but the small and moldy house But it can't meet the requirements of their residence. The police are so poorly paid that they can never pay for a larger house. As a result, Thrall was pressed and dissatisfied with the meager salary. He usually became more dissatisfied with reality and his thoughts became more and more extreme. Especially the shady inside the police also angered him: Why should he risk his life to fight? You have to take the money to decorate your luxurious office for those who do nothing above. He began to reach out to the illicit money for anti-narcotics, every time he took the risk, rushed to the forefront, forced the drug dealer to tell the location of the money, and then killed the people. But in order to pay for the house, the money was still not enough. He was desperate and frantic. He finally learned of the drug dealer’s nest, ready to fight it out. He went to the drug-concealed building without hesitation...
Tange was an excellent undercover agent. While in prison, I met the boss of the current drug trafficking organization. He has always been highly regarded by him. Over time, he gradually became close friends with the boss. In order to wipe out the drug lord, the superior of the police station did not hesitate to use his family and future as threats to let Tan Ge set up a bureau to capture the drug lord. Tan Ge hesitated between his loyalty and his future. At first he agreed to the police station's request. When the layout was completed, he regretted it. When he rushed to inform the drug lords to run away, the drug lords were taken by the local second-in-command. Someone was sent to kill, and the police also happened to be nearby. Under the mixed grief and anger, Tang Ge not only confronted his boss, but also determined to avenge his good brother. Finally, on such a night, he came to the new drug lord Reid's lair alone...
On the same night, three people with their own fate came to the same place for different purposes. Old Eddie fired the first and only shot when he was saving people, and finally rescued the captured girl. Thrall wounded and killed several drug dealers, and when he was frantically filling his pockets with money, he was attacked and killed by a small drug dealer behind him. After killing the murderer to avenge his brother, Tango was accidentally shot and killed by the police chasing Thrall. Thus, the Brooklyn police came to an end.
The whole film is repressive and cruel, how difficult it is to be a policeman in Brooklyn, how dark society is, and how deep the water is. Faced with reality, the tortuous fate of the three people seems to be telling something. Tan Ge accompanies the drug lord every day, and a large amount of stolen money passes through his hands every day, but for so many years, he has not touched a penny, and only depends on the humble salary of the police to support his family. Benefits can't buy his heart, but he can't get through the relationship after all. He decides to betray his friends for his family, and he resolutely embarks on a journey of revenge for his friends and is eventually killed. Thrall was also for his family, but the pressure of life made his thoughts more extreme. As a law enforcement officer, he embarked on a path of evil, and was ultimately destroyed in his own greed. No matter what purpose you embark on the path of evil, no matter how innocent and helpless it is, it will eventually be covered with mold. Let's see that Thrall is getting more and more frenzied, shooting and killing criminals, asking for money and things, and telling colleagues. The more indifferent and perverse, the light of the law enforcement officer gradually faded and he became a real murderer. The old Eddie seemed to have lived a lifeless life, but he preserved his true conscience and sense of responsibility under the pressure and darkness. For a Brooklyn policeman who did not use a pistol when he retired, it was incredible. Not only did his colleagues look down on him, but the criminal who kidnapped the girl also looked down on him, but the real justice only exists in his heart. Perhaps the director arranged for him to survive, and it is precisely the hope that we can see in this mess.
As a suspense and action film, "Brooklyn Police" carries far more connotations than this, and the social reality of the bottom and dark sides of the United States it reflects is staggering.
The first is racial discrimination. Even if Obama becomes president, can blacks and minorities really integrate into the mainstream white society? I don’t think so. There are almost no whites in the drug cartel in the film. Blacks are the mainstream. They kill people, sell drugs and abduct girls, and do almost everything. Also, when the young policemen were mediating the conflict, the two conflicters happened to be of colored ethnicity, and the prejudiced policeman shot and killed the young black man in anger. This is quite similar to the shooting in "Crash." In a small conflict, the distrust and discrimination between whites and people of color, and between people of color and different nationalities are vividly expressed. It was the same when Thrall played cards with his colleagues at home, because his wife was a person of color, and his police colleagues humiliated and fought. In the seemingly calm American society, those discriminations and conflicts have never disappeared. They have been deeply suppressed, but they are often on the verge of breaking out.
The second is guns. In the film, guns have indeed become terrifying monsters. Both justice police and unjust criminals use guns to kill people. For those shooting scenes, the director deliberately strengthened the bloody scenes and shots when they were shot to death. A momentary close-up of violence. Presents us a cruel world. Regardless of the fact that the police shot the citizens mentioned in the background or the actual shooting and killing of black youths, Thrall used a gun to kill criminals at will, demanding stolen money, and finally the bullets of Tango's revenge, and the manslaughter shot by Thrall’s colleagues. , It can be seen that a sharp weapon to kill is a sharp weapon to kill, no matter who it is in the hands, it is not safe. Maybe a big living person who went out in the morning was fine, but he couldn't come back in the evening. The shooting death is no longer news in the United States. Thinking of the lawsuit in "The Jury Out of Control", how to control the use of guns is perhaps the most important topic in American law and order. The Constitution empowers citizens to use guns for self-defense, but it often becomes a weapon of murder and social instability. Root cause.
There is also the bureaucratic corruption within the police organization. Why did Thrall go mad and go astray? In his own words, we are struggling to be on the front line every day, but the stolen money seized goes into the high-level pockets and is used by them to decorate luxuriously. He bought an office and expensive Persian carpets, but he couldn’t even afford a slightly better house. Only if he died and received state compensation, could he slightly reduce the burden on the family. The same is true for Tan Ge. For the sake of his own future and official position, the high-level officials do not hesitate to force him to engage in various activities, even endangering his life. In order to force Tan Ge to submit, it can be said that all kinds of tricks are used to the extreme. Sometimes we also have to question, are those law enforcement officers who represent justice really so selfless as propaganda? Perhaps they themselves are also sinful, and unlike those crazy drug dealers, they know more about disguising and are more sinister.
This is a very realistic movie that shows us another side of a naked New York and even the United States. It is not democratic and peaceful, but on the contrary it is dark, evil and ugly. The reality is cruel, and sometimes we need some courage to face it.
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