Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This review may contain spoilers.

The most Catholic movie ever made. Harvey Kietal really owns this role, and while my initial statement may turn off someone who is not religious, I need you to understand this is not a film that pushes Catholicism as the answer, but rather uses its traditional, rigid morality to expose and express how faith is not enough to save us, and to follow what Jesus truly taught requires radical actions that give no earthly reward, and certainly no guarantee of an eternal one. Kietal’s unnamed character does not earn redemption, he (major spoilers) essentially gives an indulgence of 30,000 to 2 known rapists of a nun to attempt to save his own soul, and perhaps give them a second chance of redemption. Is this a righteous act? It doesn’t really matter. What matters is he has made a radical change, and exorcised his own life in the process. For good or ill. Truly a depressing, inescapable, powerful film.

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