Sunday, October 26, 2008

Good Cop Bad Cop

Picturing the beginning of this play is easy because of all of the scenes in tv shows and movies with interrogations. The good cop is always trying to be nice and make it seem like you can just tell him what he wants to hear and you won't have to deal with the bad cop. The bad cop is just waiting for you to mouth off or be resistant because then he gets to fulfill his sadistic fantasies. In Pillowman, Tupolski is the good cop and Ariel is the bad cop. It is a typical interrogation in which it seems like the cops don't necessarily have any hard evidance and are trying to get the prisoner to confess to something he may not have done.
I think its comical that these cops have no specific confession they are looking for. I think that if Kutarian confessed to assasinating president Lincoln they would be satisfied by having done their job. I'm going to keep reading to see what else they try to suggest he has done wrong other than writing some sick stories about little children choking to death or getting their toes chopped off.

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