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Dirty Harry it's not about how the ends justify the means, or how better the police would be if they could just kill bad guys, but that the police as an institution does not care for justice at all, merely upholding bureaucracy. It's not the liberals or pc culture stopping Callahan from enacting righteous justice, it's the Law. And the law sucks rear end, truth and justice are far more important, because this was written by an actual nazi man, John Milius, whose ideal world is Conan the Barbarian. Dirty Harry may open with shots of names of cops killed in action, but at the end Callahan rejects the institution, denying any hero cop catharsis. If this makes the movie good or bad is besides the point. Probably the best critique of Dirty Harry and police films in general are the 4 Dirty harry sequels, in which the SF police department decides to keep an extremely violent psychopath who quit the job employed for some reason. He doesn't even bring results, like he routinely gets his partners killed or maimed and bungles every single case!
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