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Tara 2022-04-22 07:01:02
2/4/2008 7.5 points The background of the story is the late Vietnam War, the young people in the United States formed a new generation, and drug addiction and drug trafficking even spread to the military. A huge drug empire, and the police are also wooed by it. The film uses a lot of gray and dark tones (so that I can't see it clearly during the day, so I have to watch it at night), the rendering of the United States is dark, and the righteous people seem to be weak, but in stark contrast to the lack of police in "No Country for Old Men", Richie Roberts of the special investigation team firmly believes in the power of justice. He is not afraid of divorce, which leads to no children, death, and ridicule from colleagues. His deeds show us that there can be warriors in the system, and justice can be served as well.
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Detective Richie Roberts: His name is Frank Lucas, originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, he has a couple of arrests years ago for gambling and for carrying an unlicensed firearm. For fifteen years he was Bumpy Johnson's driver, bodyguard and collector. Hhe was with him when he died, he has five brothers, he's the oldest and a lot of cousins, they're all living up here now, spread out in the five boroughs and New Jersey. His brother's businesses are the distribution and collection points of Frank's dope and his money. Everything about Frank's life seems unpretentious and broadly legitimate, he starts early, gets up at 5am, has breakfast in a diner in Harlem usually by himself, then he starts work, takes a meeting with his accountant and with his lawyer. At nights he usually stays at home, if he does go out, it's only one of two clubs or a handful of restaurants with his wife, ball players, musicians and his friends and never organized crime guys. Sundays he takes his mother to church and changes the flowers on Bumpy's grave, every Sunday no matter what.
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Detective Trupo: Your husband's illustrious career is over. Now the Feds are going to come in, they're gonna take everything. I mean they're gonna take it all. But not before I get my gratuity. So where's the money?
Eva: What are you talking about, what money?.
Detective Trupo: What am I talking about, what money? The getaway money that Frank and every other gangster keeps in his house!
Eva: If you leave now, there's a chance Frank might not kill you.
[Trupo hits her]