"The Guilty" (2021) Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Based on and a remake of, a 2018 Danish film of the same name, Antoine Fuqua’s 14th cinematic outing in the director’s chair charts the breakdown and mental anguish of another central character who on the surface is detestable and unlikeable and akin to the Denzel Washington character of The Equalizer franchise, and especially so another of Washington’s collaboration with the director, 2001’s incredible Training Day. The films may be entirely different but the parallels with the central character(s) are stark and as one of only three casted characters “Sergeant Denise Wade” (Christina Vidal) states toward the denouement of this 90 minute film: “broken people save broken people”. But who’s going to save the tormented and broken soul on the end of the telephone?
With a cast of only three physical characters, the other roles are filled by “Manny” (Adrian Martinez) a call centre operative at the Los Angeles Police Department fielding 911 emergency calls on a busy LA night of Californian wildfires, and “Joe Baylor” (Jake Gyllenhaal). Whereas Denise and Manny are permanent and integral members of the department, it’s clearly apparent that Joe is not and on a secondment/suspension from his Police Officer role and is only mere hours away from securing a return to his previous position.
The above opening paragraphs are taken from my original spoiler free review of "The Guilty" penned and published to my Medium blog site on 25th July 2022 and available to read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and my original article linked immediately below:
https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/the-guilty-2021-c2fb5e71aba3
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