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The Good Cop

Name: The Good Cop
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen
Released: 2004
Duration: 86 min

Representation Score

4.0/10

Limited

2004

Director

Lasse Spang Olsen

Runtime

86 minutes

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The Good Cop is a genre-driven crime comedy that highlights ethnic complexity. By incorporating various international criminal factions, the film avoids a homogeneous social landscape and presents a volatile, multi-national underworld. However, the film remains anchored in traditional masculine archetypes. The focus on male-dominated hierarchies and conventional crime clichés limits its multi-layered depth. While the ethnic landscape is expansive, the social structures depicted remain largely conventional.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Good Cop have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth identities. It focuses on traditional, masculine-coded crime dynamics.

How does The Good Cop portray gender?

Fair

The story centers around a male-dominated hierarchy of police and criminals. Women do not play significant roles in driving the story.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Good Cop?

Good

The plot features a multi-ethnic underworld including Chinese, Jamaican, Latvian, Serbian, and Polish groups, creating a cosmopolitan and ethnically complex social ecosystem.

How does The Good Cop represent religion and culture?

Fair

The story explores systemic dysfunction through criminal syndicates and rigid police structures. It does not explicitly critique secularism or capitalism.

Does The Good Cop include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no visible or invisible disabilities mentioned in the narrative. No assessment of neurodivergence or physical disability is possible.

Present on Screen

The film showcases a high degree of ethnic complexity through its multi-national criminal landscape.
The narrative disrupts homogeneous storytelling by including diverse groups like Jamaican, Serbian, and Polish factions.

Limited or Absent

The film relies heavily on traditional masculine-coded archetypes and hierarchies.
Women do not occupy significant roles in driving the story.
The narrative lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-assuming gender matches what was assigned at birth perspectives.

Official Synopsis

A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.

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