Les Misérables mostly takes place on Ruiz’s first day on the job, but it’s not really about him: He’s just the filter through which we see the whirl of life on these neighborhood streets, a place where citizens look after each other because they know no one else will. He’s reserved and watchful, and from the start he’s mistrustful of his new partners-particularly Chris-but he knows loyalty to them is part of the gig. If anything, the locals view him as an outsider, a traitor who has forgotten how hard it is for them to just get by.Ĭhris and Gwada have a new partner, Corporal Ruiz (Damien Bonnard), who has just moved to the city from the provinces for personal reasons. Gwada is black, and we learn that he actually grew up in the neighborhood, but that doesn’t make him an insider there. His longtime partner, Gwada (Djibril Zonga), mostly goes along, though sometimes you catch a flicker of disapproval or wariness in his glance. Chris (Manenti)-he’s known in the neighborhood as the “Pink Pig,” a nickname he actually relishes-is the aggressive bruiser who feels his job gives him carte blanche he thinks nothing of attempting to grope a teenage girl under the auspices of frisking her for drugs.
Ly’s story-co-written with Giordano Gederlini and one of the movie’s stars, Alexis Manenti-traces the relationship between a trio of cops and the people it’s their job to protect, though their protection is more often just plain old policing.
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