Elite Squad

Just saw this Brazilian movie, "Elite Squad." An excellent action movie in its own right, this flick has some kind of political message as well, which is kind of uncommon.  Well, I should say it's uncommon because it's not a cheesy message.  It's a "fuck the system" message with a "tough on crime" ingredient to it.  Doesn't make sense?  Heck, I'm really not so sure either.  There's definitely a Nationalistic aspect to it, with a heavily militarized police force at the center stage.  But outside of or even against politics.  You could describe Batman in the same terms (Frank Miller's Batman, of course).  I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't like Extreme Nationalism--which, up there with Socialism, I consider the antithesis of Individualism, the latter The One True Path in my mind--and I am viscerally against the militarization of police forces, but this movie's message confuses the hell out of me, because I like it.  It reveals a thick hypocrisy that we still try to cover up in this country (talking about the old US of A now), with politicians using phony "wars" (on drugs, in this particular case) to dupe citizens into perpetuating their hold on power.  The "Elite Squad" just decided to take that obvious if unwritten mandate to fall like the wrath of God unto the heads of a bunch of douchebags.  And kick some ass and take some names.  And that part I like.  But it makes me guilty about it.  And I dig that too.