Many Choices Are Simple, Just Also Very Hard

Watch a film with William Doino in today’s On the Square , where he talks about Serpico and doing the right thing:

Most of us will never be in a situation anywhere near as perilous as Serpico was, and yet most of us have likely witnessed wrongdoing of some kind, and tried—or been challenged—to correct it. Anyone who has ever done so, only to run into a brick wall, can identify with the frustration, the fury and sheer agony Frank Serpico experiences when trying to act out his conscience.

Read the rest here . According to Can I Stream It?, you can go watch Serpico on Netflix right now .

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