L.A. Confidential is directed by curtis hanson, with three main actors, one more than the two popular main actors.
These three people are:
Bud White (Russell Crowe): American tough guy hates evil and hates women's suffering, but he can't help hitting his own woman. It seems rude and reckless, but in fact it is rude and subtle. When watching him angrily hit Ed, he had a feeling of fucking hitting his child. She wants to teach him a lesson and be careful not to really hurt him, haha;
Ed Eckersley (guy pearse): He is a true gentleman and a pseudo-villain, with high IQ, high EQ, both wisdom and courage, firm inner conviction, and clever use of rules to achieve his goal. By hook or by crook, he has something in his eyes and heart that he must insist on.
Jack Vinson (kevinspacey fowler): Sophisticated, he almost makes people think he is a hypocrite, but unexpectedly, he is a real policeman without losing his childlike innocence. He will only become cannon fodder in the end. Although he is a man, he has no man's aura.
Lynn Bleicken (played by kim basinger): A beautiful prostitute, she has fallen into the dust, but she is not cynical. She has always been a real person, both in appearance and in heart.
The conversation between Sheriff Dudley and Ed:
Ed: I want to go to the criminal bureau.
Dudley: You are a Machiavellian. You can see the weakness of human nature, but you don't have the courage of a tough guy
Ed: You are wrong, sir.
Dudley: Are you willing to frame someone you know is guilty to make sure the court finds him guilty?
Ed: No.
Dudley: Are you willing to torture the prisoner to make him confess?
Ed: No.
Dudley: Will you shoot a stubborn criminal in the back so that the lawyer won't get rid of him?
Ed: No.
Dudley: For God's sake, don't be a policeman. Go where you don't have to do such a thing.
The story is led by a murder in a coffee shop, and Bud's former partner also died in this murder. Soon, the police caught three black boys. During the trial, they learned that before going to the night owl cafe, they tied up a girl, and her life and death were unknown.
Bud rushed in directly during Ed's interrogation, learned that the girl was behind by tough means, and arrived at the first time. Seeing that the girl was tortured to death, he directly shot and killed the idiot who was watching TV, and then forged the illusion that the idiot resisted arrest.
Bud is the kind of policeman who uses torture to make a prisoner confess, and he is also the kind of policeman who will shoot a stubborn criminal from behind in order not to let his lawyer excuse him.
This perfect and fair interrogation process perfectly embodies the characteristics of Ed's high IQ and high EQ, which is amazing.
It's just that these three children who will wet their pants with fear don't look like vicious criminals who killed six people. However, during Bud's trip to rescue the kidnapped girl, three suspects escaped from the police station and were all killed on the spot when they were chased by the police.
Because the testimony of the kidnapped Mexican girl and the shotgun found in the car were consistent with the shell casings at the murder scene, they were identified as the killers of the night owl restaurant. The police station, citizens, high-level and low-level are all related, and it doesn't matter. Everyone was satisfied except those three disgusting black children, but they were already dead.
Ed was promoted to rank again. But almost at the same time, he and Budd realized that all kinds of clues showed that the three black boys were not the real murderers of the six people in the night owl murder case, so they began to pursue the case.
Ed felt keenly that his homicide colleague seemed to have something fishy in this case, so he asked Jack Vinson to cooperate with him.
Although Jack's mask is a bad policeman who colluded with entertainment newspapers in order to gain fame, he chose to cooperate with Ed because he witnessed the innocent death of an actor.
Jack found the file that Captain Dudley (the leader of a criminal group) worked with Buzz (the former policeman involved in the case) and Stanley (Bud's former partner, one of the victims of the night owl murder) 0/2 years ago, and chose to go directly to Dudley to ask about the situation. Unexpectedly, he was directly killed by Dudley.
Jack's death has been repeatedly mentioned by various film critics here, because it violates the "law of the protagonist's immortality" in all film and television dramas, which is really a bit abrupt. But there is a very clever place here. Ed mentioned a name "Lolo tommasi" before working with Jack. This man is the murderer who shot Ed's father, but Ed didn't know who he was, so he invented the name. Jack said the name after being shot by Dudley. Dudley, as a competent villain, told Ed "Rollo tommasi" the day after Jack's death, and Ed realized that he was the murderer who killed Jack when he arrived in Dudley. This is what Jack meant by saying this name before. Who is more stupid than who?
Dudley learns from Jack that Ed and Rod are still pursuing the murder of the night owl. First, Lynn (the controlled prostitute in love with Bud) was designed to sleep with Ed and take photos. Then Bud saw the photos and hoped that Bud in a rage would kill Ed.
While Ed was searching for the files of Dudley, Buzz and Stanley that Jack found, the furious Bud broke into the house. After a stormy fight (almost one-sided fight by Ed), Bud finally stopped. He is not a real fool.
Finally, Dudley invited them to the Victory Hotel, intending to kill them. After a fierce gun battle, Bud's life and death were unknown, but Ed became a policeman who "shot a stubborn criminal in the back lest the lawyer get rid of him".
The ending was happy, Dudley became the "police chief who died heroically", the reputation of the police station was perfect, and Ed got a higher position because of his cooperation with the police station.
Ed won the world, and Bud won the opportunity to be a prostitute in Arizona.
Some film critics say Lynn is a "forgivable woman". She doesn't love bud. Everything is acting and lying.
A beautiful woman is in a weak position. What can she do? To those big shots, she is just a plaything. You can kill her with a gesture, a look and an idea. Is it that important to love or not?
Bud pities her and loves her just because she is her, not a movie star, which is enough for a woman.
When Bud 12 years old, he witnessed his mother being beaten to death by his father with an iron bar, which left the deepest trauma in his heart, so he couldn't see a man beating a woman at all, which began to be reflected in Bud's emotional reaction when he taught a domestic violence man a lesson at the beginning of the movie. However, after seeing the picture of Ed having sex with Lynn, he personally slapped Lynn twice.
Finally, everyone has a happy ending. Although it's a bit of a cliche, there is no doubt that this is a wonderful and charming film.