A hotbed of police brutality, anti-policeman aggression, inveterate racism and mob violence, a fictional Danish ghetto area entraps two white policemen in Danish filmmakers Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders ?lholm’s debut feature, ENFORCEMENT, whose original title SHORTA is an Arabic term for “police”.

Entering Venice Film Festival’s International Critics' Week sidebar, the film opens with a disquieting scene that presciently anticipates the George Floyd murder, a Muslim youngster is under duress by policemen and exclaiming “I can’t breathe!”. In the wake of this incendiary incident, with the said youngster is on life support, the Muslim neighborhood cries foul and bays for blood, and at that critical point, a pair of policemen Mike Andersen (Lohmann) and Jens H?yer (Sears) patrols in the sink area, when the animosity aggravates, they have to fight their way out of the hell-scape, but to what consequences?

The good-cop-bad-cop set-up is familiar, Mike is an out-and-out macho racist, hard-bitten, cynical and aggressive, while Jens is younger, leaner and compassionate, a level-headed guy whom you can count on. Their internecine smackdown is what’s in the cards, but after that, Hviid and ?lholm’s script foregrounds Mike’s change of viewpoint when he is stranded in a housing project, where he is saved by a Muslim nurse Abia (Saglanmak), who happens to be the mother of Amos (Zayat), the young Muslim he apprehends. So Mike is designed to find out Amos is not a tearaway but a talented footballer who cannot make it because of his race, and when two young Muslim kids coming to his rescue, what haunts your head is a wishful thinking: don’t let anything happen to the two good kids.

ENFORCEMENT falls by the wayside when the good cop Jens is subjected to a fatal mistake, so as to pull through the about-face plot device and obscure the two cops' apparent discrepancy. Only the director-duo’s tactic has no flair, it is leaden and arbitrary (like the coincidence-and-inexplicability-riddled plot), and a deal-breaking failing is that Muslims are treated as black-or-white ciphers (the radical rascals versus the good-hearted innocents), Hviid and ?lholm fails to fashion anything even remotely intelligent from the Muslim’s point of view, exactly because of their own white privilege, this is their blind spot. The film may sound and look like an inspiring story against racism, but it is tired and jaundiced, pandering to white Danes and not doing right by the ethnic group. Again, diversity should be enforced within every and each position of the business, otherwise, it is plain tokenism.

On the plus side, Hviid and ?lholm cut their teeth in concocting an arresting thriller with some style and gore (although the city-sprawling pandemonium is only glimpsed from afar or heard from the news channel), and Lohmann is rabid enough to make Mike repugnant and then kits himself up with a changed impression that isn’t feel far-fetched, yet Sears has far more screen charisma to leave you engrossing, unfortunately, his Jens starts as a hero (light literally refracting upon his head when he banters with Amos), but exits as a whimpering enigma, the comedown is dispiriting.

referential entries: Nicolo Donato’s BROTHERHOOD (2009, 7.8/10); Mathieu Kassovitz’s LA HAINE (1995, 7.5/10).

English Title: Enforcement

Original Title: Shorta

Year: 2020

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: Denmark

Language: Danish, Arabic

Directors/Screenwriters: Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders ?lholm

Music: Martin Dirkov

Cinematography: Jacob M?ller

Editing: Anders Albjerg Kristiansen

Cast:

Jacob Lohmann

Simon Sears

Tarek Zayat

?zlem Saglanmak

Issa Khattab

Dulfi Al-Jabouri

Arian Kashef

Josephine Park

Rating: 6.7/10

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詹斯是一位道德感強(qiáng)烈的“好”警察，他的兩名同事在值勤時，情緒擦槍走火，出手毆打一名穆斯林少年而引發(fā)族群衝突。雖說不是出手的當(dāng)事人，但當(dāng)時也在場的詹斯大可出面或至少出言制止同事，憾事便不會發(fā)生。除了兩位亮眼的警察主角，片中第一男配角阿莫斯也是非常重要的角色。他不僅展現(xiàn)出詹斯應(yīng)有的樣子，也代表移民后裔即便什麼都不做，也可能惹禍上身的事實(shí)。

不過，雖然道德感強(qiáng)烈，但詹斯是個只想明哲保身的警察，事發(fā)后也遲遲不愿做筆錄。不論是指認(rèn)同事送他們?nèi)コ岳物垼€是扯謊為同事開脫，都不是他所樂見的。就連搭檔麥克逮捕阿莫斯的粗暴，其實(shí)詹斯都有辦法出手制止，他卻都寧可噤聲。但是，等到詹斯也面臨情緒即將爆發(fā)的一刻，卻是阿莫斯按著他的肩膀說：“沒事，冷靜，冷靜就好。”阿莫斯徹底扮演詹斯應(yīng)當(dāng)能夠做卻沒能做到的事。

電影《高校棋蹟》裡西洋棋隊(duì)的老師對學(xué)生說：“這張桌子坐滿有色人種，包括我，我們什麼都不做警察就會不請自來，你們知道嗎？”雖說阿莫斯最后被逮捕是由于他對警車丟奶昔，但一開始被攔查只是因?yàn)榘⒛箍淳噹籽鄱?，他也并非那群借事惹事的不良少年。同樣的行為，白人做的話或許什麼事都不會發(fā)生，但移民后裔卻得繃緊神經(jīng)，隨時準(zhǔn)備面對警察盤查。

可是，《爆裂戰(zhàn)警》并非只呈現(xiàn)出衝突的一面，也點(diǎn)出人性的良知。即使是警察主角裡帶有種族歧視意識的麥克，在確保自己脫離暴民的威脅后，也不再為難對方，甚至叫他快走，畢竟他們都只是孩子。麥克與詹斯大打出手之后分道揚(yáng)鑣，沒有槍的他在此時遇上混混中的其中一位，但看著沒有攻擊意圖、手無寸鐵的麥克，對方也只回報(bào)“沒事”便掉頭就走。不管是不良少年或警方，除了少數(shù)殺紅眼的人之外，沒有人真心想置對方于死地。

全片最令人動容也最揪心之處，便是最后詹斯誤殺伊薩后，道德感強(qiáng)烈的他受不了自己捏造事實(shí)而茍活，決定死于暴民之手，顯示出詹斯是一位無法昧著良心做事的警察，也讓這半開放式的結(jié)局留下一點(diǎn)悲傷的色彩。

片中點(diǎn)出其實(shí)丹麥的歧視不只存在于警察對人民這種帶有權(quán)力的上對下關(guān)係中，就連居民之間也互相怨懟?；旎斐脕y洗劫雜貨店，每天警告、威脅客人，讓雜貨店門可羅雀；雜貨店老闆雖對阿莫斯關(guān)愛有加，感覺也與他媽媽熟識，但家中成員對巴基斯坦移民存有偏見，認(rèn)為他們整天惹麻煩，讓整個社區(qū)陷入危險(xiǎn)之中，造成店家沒有生意。這些可能都是我們無從得知的歐洲現(xiàn)況，2010 年阿拉伯之春后，來自非洲、南亞與中東的難民人數(shù)激增，歐洲各國紛紛陷入移民危機(jī)，其中又以德國、丹麥與瑞典由于給予難民的待遇前后有所差別而造成更嚴(yán)重的對立與歧視。

以美國為主的國際維權(quán)運(yùn)動“黑命關(guān)天（Black Lives Matter）”不但是一種抗?fàn)?、一種訴求，更是表達(dá)非裔美國人成天活在恐懼當(dāng)中。片中麥克與詹斯意見不合時，詹斯提到，不該有意外，每個人的生命都一樣珍貴，卻被麥克反問是否曾被人用槍指過。有的時候，并不是警察故意要執(zhí)法過當(dāng)或出手過重，而是沒有退路或生命受到威脅后，唯有更強(qiáng)硬的抵抗才能確保自己看得到明天的太陽。后續(xù)當(dāng)詹斯被不良少年拿槍指著，差點(diǎn)把持不住也犯下大錯，便應(yīng)證麥克對“恐懼”的描述，警察并非貪生怕死，只求今夜得以續(xù)命。

講到警察，丹麥的確滿喜歡拍攝以警探或警察為主題的電影，近幾年包括《厄夜追緝令》與《懸案密碼》系列等?！侗褢?zhàn)警》與過去常見的警察題材作品不同的是，它并不是以非黑即白的“好警察、壞警察”二分法呈現(xiàn)，而是更為真實(shí)，讓觀眾看到所謂的壞警察也有惻隱之心，也有原則；好警察也會犯錯，也有私心。從伊薩與其他同樣以成為警察為夢想志業(yè)的中東移民孩子來看，警察在一般移民心中的形象應(yīng)該也不算太差。貪污、濫用職權(quán)、歧視的警察肯定有，但《爆裂戰(zhàn)警》帶觀眾看到警察執(zhí)法時的無奈與為難。

最后，電影不忘在緊張刺激又嚴(yán)肅的氛圍當(dāng)中添加一點(diǎn)詼諧有趣的成分。作為一部歐洲電影，納入足球再適合不過，片中甚至揶揄曾經(jīng)是強(qiáng)權(quán)，但近期疲軟的英超球隊(duì)“兵工廠”，并舉去年以前都為兵工廠效力的土耳其裔德國球員厄齊爾為例（Mesut ?zil）。將歐洲的熱門運(yùn)動項(xiàng)目與電影想談?wù)摰姆N族議題結(jié)合在一起，極為巧妙。電影后段甚至安排麥克至阿莫斯家，看到他“最佳球員”的獎盃，得知他的確是個球技精湛的好孩子，確實(shí)是因?yàn)樗囊泼裆矸荻惶叱銮蜿?duì)，其中的反差與諷刺令人鼻酸。

丹麥這幾年選材很大膽，可能是小國好拍片的緣故，片名“肖塔”在阿拉伯語里就是“條子”的意思，在大量的綠綠移民里面，這可算不上什么好詞。 影片題材直接照搬“美國弗洛伊德事件”，0元大搶購也直接體現(xiàn)毫不避諱，但本片主要是聚焦在“兩位肖塔”身上，新老警察組成二人組，老警察代表了歐洲高傲，強(qiáng)硬，傳統(tǒng)的一面，年輕警員則代表了包容、接納、權(quán)衡的一面。種族歧視根深蒂固，仇怨積累由來已久，警察手握國家授予的執(zhí)法權(quán)力就是一根敏感的導(dǎo)火索。在移民問題凸顯的歐洲，這片子非常的真實(shí)。