Monday 19 January 2015

Felony

I watched this film on my iPad.  It is an Australian crime thriller focused on a police detective (played by Joel Edgerton) who on his way home from a police drinks do, knocks over a young boy on his bike.  He calls an ambulance but then denies that he knows anything about the accident.  The film unpicks the impact of this lie, mainly via interaction with his cynical boss (played by Tom Wilkinson) and an honest young fellow cop (Jai Courtney).

The film is played out at a pleasingly leisurely pace, carefully portraying the moral and psychological pressures of being in such a situation.

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