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Such is the case with the Eastern European prostitutes in season 2. [=McNulty=], despite his usual "it's all about me" attitude, goes out of his way to identify the body of a dead girl he finds in the water. It’s of no importance to the investigation, but for once he cares about something other than solving a case: he simply doesn’t want the girl to go on the record as a random Jane Doe. Most other characters don’t understand his concern and theorize that it's his [[RaisedCatholic Catholic guilt]] talking.
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Such is the case with the Eastern European prostitutes in season 2. [=McNulty=], despite his usual "it's all about me" attitude, goes out of his way to identify the body of a dead girl he finds in the water. It’s of no importance to the investigation, but for once he cares about something other than solving a case: he simply doesn’t want the girl to go on the record as a random Jane Doe. Most other characters don’t understand his concern and theorize that it's his [[RaisedCatholic Catholic guilt]] guilt talking.
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This page contains spoilers! Read at your own risk.
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The establishment versus the individual is ''TheWire''’s main source of conflict. Be it the schools, the police, or the gangs, any kind of an organization is [[InherentInTheSystem ultimately self-serving]]. The main moral of ''TheWire'' is this: each and every one of us is guilty in running the institutional machine which eventually destroys those involved with it. We’re all complicit in the system, but we’re also all cheated by it. As Bodie Broadus laments:
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The establishment versus the individual is ''TheWire''’s ''The Wire''’s main source of conflict. Be it the schools, the police, or the gangs, any kind of an organization is [[InherentInTheSystem ultimately self-serving]]. The main moral of ''TheWire'' ''The Wire'' is this: each and every one of us is guilty in running the institutional machine which eventually destroys those involved with it. We’re all complicit in the system, but we’re also all cheated by it. As Bodie Broadus laments:
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However, for all its cynicism and bleakness, ''TheWire'' is a series that believes in [[RedemptionQuest redemption]] and reinvention and offers its characters the chance to turn their lives around. Be it Bubbles, who comes clean and stays clean, or Daniels, who puts his dirty past behind and becomes a paragon of authority, or Cutty, who opens a gym after failing to reintegrate into a life of crime, or Carver, who grows from a thieving, snitching DumbMuscle into an excellent cop – the opportunity for [[CharacterDevelopment character growth]] is always there.
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However, for all its cynicism and bleakness, ''TheWire'' ''The Wire'' is a series that believes in [[RedemptionQuest redemption]] and reinvention and offers its characters the chance to turn their lives around. Be it Bubbles, who comes clean and stays clean, or Daniels, who puts his dirty past behind and becomes a paragon of authority, or Cutty, who opens a gym after failing to reintegrate into a life of crime, or Carver, who grows from a thieving, snitching DumbMuscle into an excellent cop – the opportunity for [[CharacterDevelopment character growth]] is always there.
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This comment, made by Bunk Moreland, epitomizes the longing for a mythical time when people mattered as individuals. In the world of ''TheWire'', the underclass is practically anonymous, just a faceless statistic: when Nick Sobotka, once a well-liked stevedore, reappears for a short scene in season 5 after falling on hard times, he’s dismissed by Mayor Carcetti’s staff as “a nobody’. The scene is brief, and it takes an astute viewer to recognize the character: since he’s fallen from the focus of the series, he’s of little interest to the audience. We are thus reminded that we’re the ones shaping society’s indifference toward the downtrodden.
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This comment, made by Bunk Moreland, epitomizes the longing for a mythical time when people mattered as individuals. In the world of ''TheWire'', ''The Wire'', the underclass is practically anonymous, just a faceless statistic: when Nick Sobotka, once a well-liked stevedore, reappears for a short scene in season 5 after falling on hard times, he’s dismissed by Mayor Carcetti’s staff as “a nobody’. The scene is brief, and it takes an astute viewer to recognize the character: since he’s fallen from the focus of the series, he’s of little interest to the audience. We are thus reminded that we’re the ones shaping society’s indifference toward the downtrodden.
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''TheWire'' has often been compared to a “visual novel” in terms of structure and subject matter. The grand scope of things, the big cast of characters and the long plot arcs allow for such a comparison to be made.
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''TheWire'' makes good (if on occasion overly blatant) use of metaphor: sometimes the characters consciously reflect upon their lives (the chess pieces as an analogy of the gang organization), sometimes the viewers are left to discern the allegories for themselves (“The Wire” is titled that way because the wiretaps provide the cops in a look into a secret world).
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