Saw The Interview. Not the much-ballyhooed comedy about North Korea, but an Australian police procedural about a cat-and-mouse battle of wits between a cop and a man accused of being a serial killer. The film is a tightrope walk between confirmation bias and plausible deniability. The cop feels that this is his man and is not above using intimidation to get what he wants. On the other side is the police apparatus designed to prevent inadmissible evidence from being collected. We are intended to sympathize with the cop and to hate the foul poindexters who whine about "ethics" and "fairness".
Then again, we aren't allowed to know until quite late in the film if the accused is actually guilty. It may well be that this cringing mess of a man is telling the truth, that what the cop perceives to be his mask falling is just an ordinary desperate moment for a man in a stressful situation. IT's left pleasantly ambiguous for quite a while. People who like tidy resolutions be warned!
I enjoyed the film. The central conflict of letting a guilty man go vs an innocent man being locked up is not that interesting to me (I always imagine myself as the innocent man. What do I care if a random criminal is not in jail? MAny are not in jail.) but the film is nervy and interesting, always keeping you guessing.
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