Felony (2014)

A well-respected detective sideswipes a kid on a bike in the early morning and, when calling in the accident, instinctively pretends that he simply found the kid rather than was responsible for the accident. A newer detective on the force has his doubts about the story, though.

Such deep subject matter. I completely understood the “why” of other detectives playing along with the coverup (the compromising of other cases the at-fault detective worked on, the “one of us” argument, etc) as I simultaneously have the belief that there should be no special treatment. The movie was doing a good job of sympathizing with both sides of the issue. But then they muddied things by making the rookie 1) kinda skeevy and 2) in need of his own coverup. They shoulda stayed strong.

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