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I don't know how to break it to you that that is indeed the way criminal procedure works. The cops breaking the rules and flouting the constitution counts for way less than you'd think and is in no way a slam dunk for the defense usually.
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idk if you’re looking for recs, but if you are, Elia Suleiman is the name i always hear great things about in Palestinian cinema. ‘specially The Time That Remains
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gotta be with players you trust, gotta be the right system, but man it really does open so much narrative/dramatic space you don’t get otherwise
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everything returns to Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats vs Sexy Murder Poets (altho Pleasant and Sexy are admittedly both unlikely here)
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right but there’s a metric ton of modern american media that’s not quippy if you go past mass market shit. Kelly Reichardt, Sofia Coppola, RaMell Ross, Todd Haynes, hell, even if you go up to like Scorsese or Barry Jenkins, they’re still making very earnest art
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This piece is so sad :((((