LA Confidential

LA Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson is a good crime movie, a classic film noir. I am not a fan of this kind of movies where I have to use a lot of my brain cells and to crack my head thinking about what is going on in a movie, but LA Confidential is seriously good. The movie is complex but it is still understandable and at least not confusing. There is also always something new to catch from each scene and I’m glad that this movie is not a dull one. The movie is about the corrupt policemen in the world of the 50s. The movie started by introducing the three main characters in a not so nice way. But after some time, the viewer could see where they were coming from. Officer Wendell “Budd” White is a hot tempered guy that has a violent obsession with men who abuse women. Later only it was reviewed that the reason why he was like that, was because of his childhood life. His mother was frequently abused by his father. The other character in the movie, Det .Lt. Edmund Jennings 'Ed' Exley, acted by the same guy in Memento as the main character is Guy Pearce. Being the son of a legendary LADP police, he is determining to outdo his father and because of that he tends to receive a cold shoulder by his colleagues because of his straightly-follow-the-rules character. Jack Vincennes on the other hand is a popular cop that indulges himself into increasing his fame in the Hush-Hush magazine. The investigation is actually on a crime that happened on Nite Owl coffee shop. The director reviews little by little information about the murder by what each pf the three cop had found out about the case. There was also a “femme fertile” in the movie, which was Lynn Bracken, a beautiful high class call girl that uses her sexuality to manipulate the cops as you can see in the movie that she sleeps with Budd but then seduces Ed too with her own motives.

The movie was shown as though from three different sides of a story yet it comes back to the same path at the end. The actors and actresses chosen for the movie were suitable for their character. The cast consist of Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger did a great job acting their parts.