A 1981 film by Sidney Lumet about an NYPD narcotics detective who becomes an informant against his partners and must navigate the resulting moral and personal destruction.
Provided Nolan with the template for depicting a police organization so institutionally corrupt that honesty itself becomes criminal — the moral architecture of the GCPD in the Batman trilogy — and demonstrated how to manage large ensemble casts through overlapping moral compromises.
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