The Indefensible and Opportunistic Film: Exploring Clichés in Police and Activist Movements

2023-07-12 19:21:37

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The indefensible and opportunistic film by Romain Cogitore, with François Civil as an undercover cop and Lyna Khoudri as an enamored ecologist, gives us a bunch of clichés, about the police and the militants.

Audiovisual production, in particular in its most marketable and dirtiest versions, is it really, as we say, this opportunistic disease that we no longer know how to prevent from taking over everything, everything, everyone? time, all life and all thought, to appropriate them to reduce them to their poorest and most hollow image, with the aim, assumed or unconscious, of annihilating them? This would be its common point with some of the forces that surround us, starting with ambient fascism.

The indefensible A Zone to Defend by Romain Cogitore, which could be skipped with the blink of an eye if he did not lightly tackle a certain number of things charged with a decisive meaning in our time for spitting them out in the form of pure cliché does nothing to delay their rise. Inspired, without much precision, by the case of Mark Kennedy, a British police officer who infiltrated the autonomous and environmental movements in Europe in the 2000s, the scenario applies the basic recipe from the point of view of the intruder in a closed marginal environment, the figure of the the enemy who begins to doubt his position, and which allows the identification of a supposedly reactionary public (cf. for example, the anti-Semite of J’accuse or the baqueux of

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