Exam Q2

This episode of cuffs depicts many different views which can change our views. The opening scene starts with a panning view of Brighton with an over voice of a police chief talking about how well respected and how well prepared the police are to face the tasks they face. This is then contradicted when one of the main characters, Ryan a police officer is called to a scene where two distinctly different groups are fighting: Nudists, and the supposed criminals in this scene. The over voice starts with 'I think we can all feel a sense of pride and admiration for the men and women who stand before you today'. The actual scene then shows a police officer separating the criminals and the nudists, which shows that they work sometimes with very humiliating problems. This scene shows the police officer trying to handle the situation in the best way possible, and is doing his job very well in the way he handles both the groups. However he is outnumbered and then the criminals punch him and run away. Then after trying his best to help the naturists he is then criticized by them, even though he had dealt with it to the best of his standards, while the voice over says 'while earning the respect of the public they serve. The voice over also helps describe how hard the police are made to work, while adding the hypocrisy into it. This scene is also put in slow motion to enhance the work that they are dealt with.

Another scene in this episode shows a drug addict, who has been self-harming threatening the two main characters, Ryan Draper and Jake Vickers, with a knife. It starts with the new, inexperienced police officer Jake trying to solve it and he is aggressive and just scares the drug addict even more. The more experienced police officer then takes over and you can see how they have to act to get situations into control and change their state of mind so suddenly from being really serious to being soft with the criminal in this scene. He comes across as very gentle and nice, 'we can help you', and tries to create a relationship with the criminal to calm them down and this pays off for the criminal puts his knife down and opens the door for them. This shows the experience and how he has been put in this kind of situation before and he is hard-trained and knows exactly how to deal with it. The piano music in this scene when the criminal has let them in shows the sudden mood change as the inexperienced police officer looks around the messy room and how he let 'things get on top of him' and his realisation of the way you should handle these situations and how they act like the guardian angels for the people even to those who are performing the crimes.

The last example of a crime scene, is a much more serious one compared to the others and makes them seem very small in comparison. This scene starts with the boy telling his mother 'everything's fine', which obviously shows that something bad is about to happen. He enters a genral store a thug, the criminal, due to racial beliefs, assaults them with a rusty screwdriver. There is a different person handling the case in this scene called Jo Moffat. She is very serious with the realism of this case. When she questions the shop keeper she states in a calm but firm state that she wants to see their CCTV footage. The shop owner says that it wasn't working but found his son standing over the body when he found it. She then, instantly changing her appearance becomes very friendly to address the boy and starts by asking him questions like 'do you like superheroes' before actually asking the question about the case. Later on in a conference room she breaks when the shop owners lawyer tells her that he has the right to not say anything. She tries to get to the lawyers better nature pleading him to let him talk and shows her desperation that she just wants to solve a serious case of a serious assault and cares and wants to understand it.