Sure, Spiral could have been about any of those things (and maybe the sequel will jump to another corrupt system), but this movie isn’t shy about taking aim at the police.
But instead of going after individuals, we were going after institutions.” That institution could be pharma, it could be churches, it could be police. However, director Darren Lynn Bousman did say the following in an interview with Esquire: “Coming in this time, I think the idea was about institutions and corrupt institutions, and the police not being the only corrupt institution. Rock pitched the idea for Spiral to Lionsgate studio and contributed to the script, but has yet to comment on its political message. Rock and Jackson with director Darren Lynn Bousman. Police officers in Spiral nostalgically discuss an old law called “Article 8” that gave them free rein to clean up their city by any means necessary, which feels like a direct reference to real-life laws like Qualified Immunity that shield cops from answering for their behavior while on the job. It’s hard to ignore the clear allusions to Black Lives Matter and the movement to reform, defund, or abolish the police that swept the United States and the world during the summer of 2020. (There’s always a choice, but everyone always dies anyway.) However, we quickly learn that each murdered police officer was guilty of abusing their power in some way, whether that meant shooting an unarmed teenager at a traffic stop or helping to cover up those crimes. The story begins when a Jigsaw copycat (the original killer, John Kramer, died back in Saw III) starts trapping cops in grisly torture devices designed to remove body parts or kill them entirely. Zeke’s father Marcus (Jackson) is the precinct's retired police chief, and Max Minghella ( Handmaid’s Tale) plays the rookie cop assigned to work with Zeke. Spiral stars Rock as Zeke Banks, a detective who’s been ostracized by his fellow cops after he turned in his old partner for killing an innocent civilian.
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