Depends on what you talk about - Assignment Example

The most vocal and obvious of these popular culture mechanisms is of course visual media; to include Hollywood and television programming. Through this mechanism, fairness, goodness, and trust within the criminal justice system are nearly daily portrayed to the stakeholder within society. One can hardly turn on primetime television without encountering a dozen “crime dramas”; each of which seek to imbue the viewer with a sense of awe, appreciation, and trust with regards to the judicial process.

Interestingly, the film which will be analyzed and compared/contrast within this brief analysis, “The Maltese Falcon” helps the reader to trace the development of how this concept of trust in the judicial system was introduced into the American consciousness via the silver screen. Film critics and scholars alike have denoted that “The Maltese Falcon”. As such, with regards to the films in question, the viewer is presented with a flawed lead character; a detective who is quite obviously cast as experiencing a lack of luster for his job and yearning for missing elements to a rather unfulfilled life.

By casting the lead detectives in this way, the film is able to draw a level focus to the fact that even though the individual may be flawed, the criminal justice system is impartial enough to ensure that justice is still served regardless of the personal shortcomings that those who work within the process might exhibit. Yet, the careers of the failed professional represented in “The Maltese Falcon” does not discount the tacit level of trust or belief in the criminal justice system that is reflected; rather, it compounds it be intimating that the criminal justice system is so perfect and so omniscient that even their jaded and rather flawed approach to it will still return the same high minded result.

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