In the movie ‘Cop Out’, a cop goes all out to retrieve his robbed valuable baseball card for the sake of cashing it in to foot the bill for his daughter’s $48,000 dream wedding. The card gets accidentally shot through in the end though – in a dangerous shootout. He had, out of pride, wanted to foot the bill in full because his daughter’s step-father, who was quite a jerk, ‘graciously’ offered to pay it all out of assumption that he couldn’t afford it. Due to the accident, the father had to let the step-father pay.
Now, wasn’t the struggle much ado about nothing then? Or is it the journey that counted? Well, he risked life and limb. Was it worth it? Some would say it was out of love for his daughter, but it’s actually out of fierce personal pride too. The first is based on selflessness and the latter self-centredness. Surely, his daughter would rather him be alive and present at her wedding than possibly deceased. Okay, the serious stuff said, Cop Out’s actually a comedy and there are hilarious scenes. It’s just a habit of mine to squeeze some Dharma from every film seen! (Viewing of the film was sponsored.)