The film’s primary characters are the following: Kevin Spacey as Detective Jack Vincennes, - Played by Russell Crowe as Detective Wendell ‘Bud’ White, Guy Pearce as Detective Lieutenant Edmund J. Exley, Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken, and James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith
The film analyzed different theme such as truth and illusion because we see in the film every detective is hiding something in his case. As an example, Ed Exley who tend to be serious and honest in his job, but when his friend misuse the gun against the three African, he didn’t say it was a mistake, instead; he exploit it to advance his career. Also, White killed the kidnapper knowing that he has no gun and makes it look like a defensible killing because they raped the girl
The film analyzed different theme such as truth and illusion because we see in the film every detective is hiding something in his case. As an example, Ed Exley who tend to be serious and honest in his job, but when his friend misuse the gun against the three African, he didn’t say it was a mistake, instead; he exploit it to advance his career. Also, White killed the kidnapper knowing that he has no gun and makes it look like a defensible killing because they raped the girl