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mejomonster · 4 months

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Huai dao chapter 25: so im only in the beginning portion. But id say a big difference between huai dao and modu is that in huai dao police (at least so far) have been portrayed only positively. Modu, while having luo wenzhous team be u know about as glorified in wanting to be good/do right by people as most of these types of main characters in murder mystery novels... theres also a much larger focus on corruption. Modu spends a lot of time on corrupt police working with their team, undermining their efforts to do good, their boss and bosses above that being corrupt, their fellow employees killing innocent people and people who do commit crimes being in danger they do Not deserve. How the poor, immigrants, drug users, are used by the police as scapegoats and their rights are not respected, the tragedy that is. And then outside the police, how corruption runs through corporations, through the rich, through politicans, through authority figures in groups who give them the kind of power able to be abused. Modu still ultimately has police as its heroes, like huai dao (and similar novels). But i think it does aim to do a more nuanced evaluation of what is justice, what do individuals have to do and consider daily to contribute to helping individuals/society, what corruption exists and its various forms of structural power that harm people. Huai dao maybe... maybe is trying, so far, to look into human nature a bit (im only 1/4 through tho). Modu was a lot more certain of what about human nature it wanted to touch - what corruption exists, who does it hurt, how do you help people in this world that has corruption in the justice system and in power, how many kinds of people are victims to it, how far does it reach. Modus even a bit conservative in looking at this (as i imagine the plot couldve spiraled out to encompass the whole country or whole World) since it tries to contain this examination to 1 fictional city, using the city as a stand in for the bigger world.

#lb #huai dao #modu #idk if this makes sense #like? yeah modu is copganda as much as SCI or Breaking Through the Clouds or Under the Skin or #most any story with cop leads.#but i would say compared to huai dao (which reads as Cops Always Good Protect Us)#modu instead makes a point that Plenty of cops might kill an innocent person. set them up. use them. deny their rights.#contribute to systematic corruption and harm of people #in modu theres no organization thats All Good Will Protect People #and a big arc for luo wenzhou is facing he is in a corrupt system and while he tries to Help #his own boss and his own organization does harm and hes stuck in that as a part of it #which is a bit less of a Perfect police take. u feel.#also i think thats why like. modu/justice in the dark maybe faced more censorship question issues #it does paint cops rich and government as corruptible and having systematic corruption #which uh. not like the ideal theyd generally like shows to go for

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