Having found deep-fried human remains of a human hand at a food market, the police decide they have 48 hours to solve the crime before the public becomes upset. For the rest of the show there is a digital counter, letting us know how the men and women in blue are doing.
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Surely that’s just vanilla authoritarianism; totalitarianism would be where the official version of things (Stalin’s airbrush, “we have always been at war with Eastasia”) changes so rapidly that reality follows a sort of dream-logic and individuals are left as captive passengers
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Living in the modern world many of us are already captive passengers; just yearning to get off the nightmare.
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It's pretty much the same thing in a US procedural, right? Except that when the cops don't have a search warrant but search anyway, we all admire them for being dedicated to the job.
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Maybe in the sixties, but a lot of the plot mechanics in modern police shows are around navigating these procedural issues.
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running a fingerprint in a database that has biometrics of the whole country is also common in Americian police procedurals. I agree with you on the rest though.
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Sounds a bit like Starship Troopers.
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