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pairwise@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours agoHelicopters were so cool in the 80s.
Fucking christ I’m glad I don’t live in the 80s…
They call it in, and Murphy decides to show Lymangood something interesting. They fly over to nearby Encino, which is outside their patrol area. At 9:30PM, Lymangood is able to observe a very flexible young woman doing some amazing yoga moves in the nude. Unfortunately, they are interrupted. That “abandoned car” they spotted earlier was not abandoned.
Dude, that would 100% happen when you give cops surveillance tools. Not showing that in movies is actually less realistic.
80s movies were so much more sexploitative. But this scene is just accurate.
I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? Media shapes culture shapes media is an argument, but “it’s realistic” isn’t a good reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.
It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.
EisFrei@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
Don’t forget Riptide