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A 9 page
paper which examines several police drama films, illustrating how they all address the
need for social control through their own particular visions of an orderly society. The
films discussed are “Seven,” “Shaft,” “Training Day,” and “The Untouchables.”
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bad guys predictably illustrating the powerful line between good and evil. However, there are some very powerful police dramas that take us a bit deeper, illustrating that the line between
good and evil is not so evident in reality. When such lines are vague and questionable we truly see how the films are presenting us with how the individuals are
working to control society through their own vision of an orderly society. What on cop may see as social control, another may see as evil. And, what one may envision
in terms of an orderly society another may find naive and ridiculous. In the following paper we examine four different police drama films, illustrating how they each possess a unique
perspective concerning social control through individual visions of an orderly society. The films discussed are "Seven," "Shaft," "Training Day," and "The Untouchables." Seven The film "Seven," directed by
David Finch and released by New Line Studios in 1995, is a very disturbing film and one that presents us with a very introspective policeman who has tried for years
to find some positive perspective of society. The actor is Morgan Freeman and his character, Somerset, feels defeated by the society and by the institution of policing. He was, at
the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit and create an orderly society. But, through the years
he has found that such is not a reality. In all honesty, this film is one that demonstrates there may well be no method of attaining an orderly society. "Somerset
no longer believes that hes making a difference" and when he is first on this case he asks that he be relieved of it, due to the fact that he
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