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In the background, the whole time, there is the somewhat mysterious captain Dudley Smith, played by Cromwell. He is a man who believes in bringing the guilty to justice by any means necessary, but in the end the viewer is never quite sure what to believe of it. Even Edmond comes out to be a careerist who wins acclaim and looses his soul as he pushes his way up the roads of the L.A. police force. The only way to succeed in L.A. is corruption and the choice to follow the devil's advice.
As the movie unfolds, each of the three cops is working on a particular case that is important to each of them personally to solve the case. Each of the three must help the others solve theirs in exchange for the support of the other two. Every one is doing his own justice.
The police force presented in "L.A. Confidential" is the one after the world war two. It was an era of an economic boom and everybody was looking to get rich in the fastest way possible.
There doesn't seem to be a sense that the police force is having a racist attitude against the black men. But maybe there is a feeling throughout the movie, that in every murder case there is a black person involved, and this might be a preconceived idea.
Members of the minority communities don't respect or trust the police due to the fact that some cops are not always objective when solving a case. They are blinded by their own principles and convictions about a race or a culture. The...
In the film, the young Mexican woman lied in order to get the cops' attention; she truly believed that if her case wouldn't have been related to the shotgun slayings, the cops wouldn't have paied her any. So she felt she had to do her own justice.
Nowadays, there seems that the police force is trying to solve the cases only on the basis of the evidence found, and not on their personal feelings, and their power, when it comes to physical abuse, is considerably restrasined. All this does not mean that corruption doesn't continue to exist, and that cases of cops abusing their power men haven't occurred.
Sometimes, in the movie, it seems that most of the police are more corrupt than the criminals. There are similarities between the cops from the 50' and cops from the 21 century. For some people mentality never changed and that is why sometimes the job of a policeman gives him the right to personal justice.
Director Hanson Curtis created a hard and brutal movie, about a brutal time in post war L.A. The action taking place in a city trying to clean its shady image, the film evokes the spirit of the early fifties and showing the existing level of corruption in Los Angeles which is not strange in nowadays when cases of racism and abuse still occur in the police departments.
Crime Workplace is not safe from numerous types of crimes. These crimes can range anywhere from burglary to homicides and from discrimination on the basis of sex to even rape for that matter. But these crimes are physical crimes and it is easy to avoid them or keep them at bay by making use of physical barriers, security cameras and a few sensible risk/security management tactics. For instance, if only
According to Weiss and Kolberg, "In the 1960s, a breakthrough in sharing the assessment results came from the Peace Corps when the psychologists who were working with the volunteers used surveys that were geared to expand the volunteer's self-knowledge, under the assumption that expanding self-knowledge would help a volunteer better deal with culture change. This was the first time that this type of assessment was done for the primary benefit
(MACV Dir 381-41) This document is one of the first confidential memorandums associated with the Phoenix Program, which details in 1967 the mostly U.S. involvement in counterinsurgency intelligence and activities and discusses the future training and development of South Vietnam forces to serve the same function, that had been supported by the U.S. In civilian (mostly CIA) and military roles. The document stresses that the U.S. role is to
In "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace her life. Edith was born a waif on the streets of Paris (literally under a lamp-post). Abandoned by her parents -- a drunken street singer for a mother and a
66). Furthermore, social software will only increase in importance in helping organizations maintain and manage their domains of knowledge and information. When networks are enabled and flourish, their value to all users and to the organization increases as well. That increase in value is typically nonlinear, where some additions yield more than proportionate values to the organization (McCluskey and Korobow, 2009). Some of the key characteristics of social software applications
Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings An Abstract of a Dissertation Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings This study sets out to determine how dreams can be used in a therapeutic environment to discuss feelings from a dream, and how the therapist should engage the patient to discuss them to reveal the relevance of those feelings, in their present,