The Caine Treatment

The Caine

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Fearless
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Set in 1982, Officer Caine (a Caucasian London Lad) has been with the London Metropolitan police force for 3 years. He starts to have an intermit relationship with an afro-Caribbean women named Philisha.

Philisha, shows PC Caine a new way of life and thinking. She shows him how Mixed Race people are mistreated in the media (BBC News – Black Male commits crime. The Sun – Black people taking 10,000 jobs away from British worker) aswell as everyday life (Get out of my shop you N****r).

PC Caine and his superior, Sergeant Vince decide to go on the beat around east London. On the beat, Sergeant Vince decides to perform a “routine” check on a Black youth (aged 17), the youth back chats Vince by illuminating the fact the Sergeant is being biased on his searches amongst Black and Mixed raced people. The Sergeant doesn’t like this and after a barrage of truth, he flips and beats the youths face against the pavement, and the final blow of his truncheon to the temple kills the in an instant.

Later on this attack is found out, Sergeant Vince threatens PC Caine’s job, as Caine is the only witness to convict him. However Vince offers Caine a major raise for his loyalty.

Caine searches for advice from Philisha. Philisha threatens to leave him if he doesn’t testify.

Caine is stook between Philisha and Vince. He decides to testify to savour his relationship.

The trial takes place, PC Caine gives is testimony which convicts Vince,Philisha is part of the court room audience, they smile at eachother. Vince is screaming and bombarding Caine with angry remarks. Suddenly, a burst of the court room doors, a colleague of PC Caine shouts “You need to see this first”, everyone is puzzled, including PC Caine and Sergeant Vince. The colleague passes the Judge a CCTV tape, it is played infront of court room, the tape shows evidence of PC Caine beating this 17 year youth, with Sergeant Vince nowhere to be seen. Instantly PC Caine is handcuffed whilst the crowd gasps and Philisha just stares straight forward in thin air, just no reaction. PC Caine screams “it wasn’t me, its a set up”. Later on PC Caine is charged with murder, abuse of power and intent to pervert justice. He sent to a maximum security prison with a life sentence and no right for an appeal.

Moreover, the style of the film changes, imitating the conventions of an investigative documentary. The documentary follows interviews with Mr Caine and CCTV footage of Mr Caine’s counselling footage. This footage and interviews with Mr Caine and his counsellor, come to a conclusion of him having mental health problems, these problems relating to him believing that he was with and interacting with Sergeant Vince in beating and events which followed it. Ending with the fact that PC Caine will finish his sentence when he is 55 and will b them emitted to a psychiatric ward until he dies.