Movies Watched -- Police Beat (2005)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

81 minute running time … this was a W.D. By movie (written and directed by the same guy), had sort of a Trust Fund Kid feel … it was bizarre, not a mainstream movie… a new immigrant from Senegal joins the Seattle Police Department and has to deal with all the usual “incidents” that police officers face, but he has an interesting perspective on them since he’s African … he also has a flighty white girlfriend who has left him (temporarily?) for an ex-boyfriend, and a lot of his internal dialogue is about how this tortures him. It’s not a terrible movie, but it’s also not good enough to recommend … it could have been much better done.

Farr recommended it, which I appreciate, and he wrote, “Devor's trippy, melancholy procedural is a unique film whose haunting after-effects will linger.” Yes, the capital A.R.T. crowd would go for it, see it if you qualify as an A.R.T. artist.

  • Discovers dead body

  • Retrieves wino from hedge

  • Confronts man with machete at property line dispute

  • Confronts girl offering blowjobs for a dollar a pop

  • Investigates assault by tree branch

  • Retrieves mentally ill man swimming in channel

  • Investigates man who asks to use couple’s home phone and later disappears

  • Investigates bloody suicide

  • Tickets reckless biker who is obnoxious and threatens president’s life

  • Investigates bullet holes in mail van

  • Ejects man from porn shop

  • Investigates mugging of woman

  • Investigates naked lady running through park

  • Discovers another drunk (or dying?) man in park

  • Investigates destruction of property by crazy girlfriend

  • Investigates burned man (from freebasing?)

  • Investigates intruder who masturbates in elderly woman’s house

  • Investigates man wearing bulletproof vest in backyard dollhouse

I confronted the bully tree

I confronted the bully tree