DAILY CALL SHEET: JULY 9, 2023

Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) An ideologically driven District Attorney investigates a legendary police captain who is suspected of releasing a madman knowing he would seek out and attempt to murder an otherwise untouchable criminal. If for some unexplainable reason you weren't fans of Martin Balsam or Franco Nero before this, you will be by the ending. Speaking of which, the struggle between law and justice has been filmed plenty, but rarely with a denouement this friggin' bleak.

TIL: Alas, political corruption goes way back. A good portion of the 23rd chapter of the Book of Exodus is pretty much a catalog of crimes which government officials are not to indulge in. Which, of course, they do anyway. The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church notes that political corruption is one of the primary causes contributing to underdevelopment and poverty, especially in developing and debt ridden countries.

 

Freeze Frames #010: "Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life." - Ralph "Red" Marston