Cinematographers, and officers, on patrol in 'End of Watch' ★★
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Writer-director David Ayer has described his new film "End of
Watch" as akin to "watching YouTube — where something in your
mind tells you this is real. This film is like YouTube meets
'Training Day' in a lot of ways." (Ayer wrote "Training Day,"
which won Denzel Washington an Oscar for his role as a dirty
LAPD detective.) So: What does that YouTube comparison mean,
exactly?  It means Ayer shoots his movie as if compiled from a
mixture of "Cops"-style surveillance footage, shot on "dash-
cams" inside the patrol car; video shot by the character played
by Jake Gyllenhaal (who, we're told early on, is enrolled in a
film class as part of his continuing education); and
surreptitious chest-level video. Early on the officers played by
Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena affix little spy cams to their
uniforms. They're not the only documentarians on the streets of
South Central LA.  Key gang-banging adversa