The title MOB’S TARGET nicely conveys the premise of this crime thriller. The plot focuses on an insecure and fearful accountant who testifies against a major mobster, sending him to prison. The mob wants revenge and she’s the target. She enters a Witness Protection program, but an enforcer tracks her down.
The goal of survival is clear and the stakes are life and death. There are several themes incorporated into the script about trust, revenge, justice, survival, and second chances.
The script also poses some intriguing moral questions, especially for the police chief Joe. He has to struggle with the moral argument of family vs. justice. He clearly has a moral dilemma.
With that said, this is a plotline that has been done before, but
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The plot also offers another coincidence with the idea that Megan’s father was murdered and that Brown investigated it. Again, too many coincidences cause one to question the credibility of the plot.
In this case, it’s not clear how Megan’s dad being murdered is relevant, or how it connects to the plotline. The backstory is left dangling for the audience. It’s a serious backstory to have a parent murdered; yet there’s no payoff for the reveal.
Normally, a backstory has some emotional affect on the current storyline. For example, if Megan were home when her dad was killed and she was unable to protect and save him, then this could be a relevant inner conflict for her. She could carry the guilt about her father and now she has to learn to protect herself. Or in another example, if Megan were home when her dad was murdered, maybe she saw the killer and now years later he reappears. Regardless, the idea of the connection to Brown isn’t clear and it’s suggested to eliminate this connection unless there’s a solid link to the present day storyline and the past.
The opening sets the tone for a mobster story. It establishes that Nick is deadly. However, the scene isn’t as tense or suspenseful as it could be. One reason for this is that the audience isn’t emotionally invested in the owner of the bookshop and the dialogue and action doesn’t create compelling enough tension.
The other concern about the tone is that, in
To conclude in brief words , what the author wants the reader to know about life in this dynamic story is to always stay faithful to the things you say you are going to do, and to not give up no matter what other people tell you. In the
Serpico is about a New York police officer, Frank Serpico, or “Paco”, who got shot in the face for reporting police corruption in the New York Police Department (NYPD). Fellow officers did not help him when he was wounded. This movie portrayed real life events and factors that go on in our police forces today. There are a lot of ethical issues that go on in this movie. Men are beaten, punished, lied to, and deceived by police officers. Serpico testified against all police corruption and was left derelict in a crucial time of need. Officers today need to work together in a positive and ethical way in order to get their job done the right way.
Additionally, this is a great film that I would watch over and over again. It is amazing to see how corrupt the New York City Police Department was and how badly this needed to be corrected. The corruption went from the higher ups down to the low ranking officers. There was nothing serpico could do but work in these conditions daily without any help. The corruption in the police department caused the community to look at cops as criminals and not as people who are suppose to help civilians. Serpico is a police officer with integrity and ethics and is a model police officer.
It was then that she realized her daughter had been unaccounted for, for several months. Once she reported her daughter missing, the second body was identified. Three more bodies were positively identified on November 8th. Their names were: Crystal Dozier, 38, Ameldea (Amy) Hunter, 47, and Michelle Mason, 45, all African American women. Crystal was a mother of seven and had a criminal history of drug offences. Crystal’s family reported her missing several times before. The family believed that the police department failed to investigate the reports so they took it upon themselves to contact local hospitals. They also posted flyers in their neighborhood. Amy Hunter was a beautician and a mother of three. She had a criminal history and there were several reports of Amy abusing drugs and alcohol. Although Amy did not live in the area, she frequently visited the area. It is reported that Amy did not have use of both of her arm, which made her an even more desirable target. Michelle Mason was a mother who again, had a history of drug abuse. Police records show that Michelle also had a criminal record. Amy lived near Sowell’s house. After reports of her disappearance in October of 2008, a full investigation was launched. This is just another reason victim’s families believe that the police in Cleveland were negligent.
The author portrays the message and theme of persistence, resilience, and grit throughout the entire story. We understand
Critical thinking model reflection 1) The main moral issue. - Should Officer Maria Martinez do something about Officer Thompson abusive behavior? 2) Two items you think would be beneficial to research.
Evaluating the film, one may find it is organized into numerous themes such as: love, trust, family, following your dreams, and Christianity. These themes happen to be a strong points in this movie because they all this should be valued. Love is presented through the help of family and friends after the shark attack, the community members that welcomed Bethany home, and the help the youth group showed on their mission trip. During that mission trip, they had to learn to trust her when she offered help. In addition, Bethany had to put her trust in God with her current situation. At first, she was shaky and a little uneasy about it all, but soon she came to know that her faith is all that she really needed. Family is a big theme in this movie, considering it was the foundation in which Bethany was rooted. They were there for her to support her, and help her when she needed them. Although there is no perfect family, we also know how important family is. Additionally, this movie taught that we have to overcome obstacles to achieve our dreams. Everyone has a dream, but few take the necessary to make it come true. Where an individual is from or what they encounter in life cannot stop a dream from coming true. All viewers can relate to something bad
Second, John Brown was believed to be a terrorist for what he did. Both Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs. Doyle said that they were disturbed by Brown. Doc(G).John Brown was believed to be a martyr in the North and a murder in the South. I believe John Brown was a martyr, not a murderer.
A true sense of morality is a difficult concept to grasp as what is socially acceptable and what is not is challenged quite often by the circumstances that decisions must be made under. Morality changes when there is a crime involved as was the case with Mary Surratt in Robert Redford's film The Conspirator. In Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the morals that are put into enlisted members of the Marines is another example of moral ambiguity during the times of war. Moral ambiguity in crime is the idea that things are not always black or white, that some decisions must take more things into consideration than just the severity of the issue at hand.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of "justice for all," however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn't always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
Chapter 1 of Character and Cops, Delattre writes, that the police are essential to society, the police are required to be the ones who keep law and order. Delattre explains that throughout the book he uses his twenty five years of experiences working with people in criminal justice, to explain and answer moral questions that arise working in the criminal justice field. He then outlines what he will elaborate on in each chapter later on, such ethics pertaining to individuals leading all the way to problems from society. Delattre, at the end of the chapter, reinforces his experience, by writing that he has worked with and seen many honorable and ethically good cops, but at the same time, he has seen his fair share of corrupt and ethically bad cops.
This causes the investigators to further interrogate Rick Masons involvement in this crime. While discussing with Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, she suggests that Sarah Fisher may be trying to protect her son and that Mason may have used Scott to get to Sid.
The topic of this paper is gangsters in organized crime can either work alone or work with other gangsters. When people commit crimes with other criminals, their personal ties to each other become strong when there is especially trust or there could be no trust, however, those ties can become strong at some point.
The tragic case of two-year-old Caylee Anthony reveals the devastating consequences that murders can have on victims and their families. Caylee was an innocent toddler that lived with her mother, Casey Anthony and her maternal grandmothers, Cindy and George. On July 15, 2008 a call to 911 was sent in by Caylee’s grandmother Cindy, reporting that she hasn’t seen Caylee in 31 days and that the toddler’s mother’s car smelled like a dead body has been inside it. The toddler’s mother gave varied explanations on where her daughter was located but then admitted she hasn’t seen her in weeks. She told police that she left Caylee at her nanny’s apartment and when she returned, they were both missing. Detectives found discrepancies in a signed statement
But Chris replies that he admits that Joe is no worse than most men in the country, but that he had thought Joe to be better than most men. The demands of social responsibility as represented by Chris have triumphed over worldliness and monetary greed as represented by Joe Keller. Thus, the very theme of the play has been developed and brought to a conclusion by means of the contrast between Chris and Joe which runs through it. The interaction between different members of a family, such as in the Keller family and Deever's family, has been closely analysed and shown by Miller in this play. The ill of the judicial system under which an innocent person like Steve Deever has to spend several years in jail, while the guilty man like Joe Keller goes scot free, has been presented for our