Thinky Thoughts Provoked by Southland's 3x04 "Code 4"

[badboy_fangirl]

So, several years ago I took a film class in college. I took it because it filled one of my stupid GE requirements and seemed like the least boring to me of all the proffered courses. The professor had selected various films, a lot of them foreign language and/or from the 1940s or 1950s to teach us about the progression of film making, and

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[badboy_fangirl]

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[crowandfog]

Wow, what a wonderful post. I haven't been keeping up with Southland like I once was, but I'm still totally get where you're coming from.

Like you, I don't allow entertainment to form my worldview. I do, however, sometimes find examples from entertainment that help me to express things that I already believe. What you've said here really echoes what I've been thinking about the police force in my own city lately.

I guess cuts are going on all around. It's really frustrating to me when local politicians (who tend to own businesses and work at law firms) get large salaries from taxpayers, while the fire and police departments and other departments who depend on the city for their sole income have to struggle. /rant

[badboy_fangirl]

It was interesting for my anger about the character dying to transform into anger at the system and the situation that so many law enforcement people find themselves in.

We live in an unfair world, we really do.