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'The System works' stick some photos in there.

Really interesting and atmospheric tv film starring Tom Skerrit and Michael Parks who give complex performances. The film is directed by Alan Metzger who never really did anything as good , mainly pay cheque thrillers and other 'topic of the month' tv movies . The writer Nevin Schreiner has form tho' writing some taut thrillers here and there that paid off when they had a director or producer behind it with ta lent. The film has a lot of interesting symbolism and a strong hidden narrative about the toxic by product of men sticking to traditional male views of masculinity and the role model of bread winner and provider'/protector . They even take in a game of baseball and that most American of past times shooting guns. With a parallel journey between the two police officers showing that neither benefit from what 'being a man' has to offer , it ends in violence between the two. i picked up on it after the domestic abuse section and the amount of alcohol a...