Add a few 2007 issues such as media hype, government propaganda and lies, and the government’s very nasty treatment of returning vets, and we have a situation where the viewer – however moral she might consider herself – simply wants to see these guys miraculously saved from the mess they have brought upon themselves. Yeah, it’s impossible, but one hopes. Somehow. Somehow. The money be damned! Some deus ex machina has got to come down from heaven and whisk these bank robbers safely off to someplace that has no extradition treaty. Could their helper be the computer hacking kid? Could the contagious Stockholm Syndrome afflicting their hostages somehow save them? Dang, even the cops (a nice multicultural mix which includes a black female SWAT expert - yay!) understand where these slighted patriots are coming from! What can be done to help our guys leave the botched bank robbery safe and sound? Yes, I “know” that “crime doesn’t pay,” but dang, how I wish it did — at least for these army guys, this brotherhood of criminals who have been given a rotten deal by the war-mongering government.
It has been said that writing is often a conversation between the soul and the spirit. In this case, the Christian in me knows what I "should" want: law and order. But the Christian in me also knows that these men, like Jesus my Lord - who was executed via capital punishment and whose body hung between the bodies of two thieves - are "men of sorrows acquainted with grief." A Christian, a working class person, or a minority person will understand (and be compassionate toward) these rejected, outcast, desperate men who are not only each other's brothers but also our brothers. But what can I say? The law is powerful and relentless and our bad guys aren't going to get a blanket forgiveness.
The Kill Point is being shown in eight hours. Try to catch all of the episodes. Be wonderfully surprised. Be wonderfully touched.
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1 - Josh Lasser
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2 - Carmen D.
Since you liked 'City of Industry', I am going to make EVERY effort to catch The Kill Point. I am so excited! Thanks.