media language...

-A number of close up shots are used it the film to engage the audience by allowing the audience to identify with different character and to create an emphasis on facial expressions.

-Therefore the previous image above connotes that a social issues have been raised in the film by having two previous opposing characters being placed in a intense scene with each other to represent the fact that role reversal has taken place within the police officers character.
-Overall the main social issue raised in that specific scene is the class divide between the black and the white characters in the film.
-This can also perhaps portray a positive view on racial issues in America as a representation of a positive change is taking place.
-The setting if the film (LA) also represents how social issues are being raised in the film. This is mainly because the realistic setting informs the audience that a number of different crimes to take place in reality, therefore engaging the audience more into the film.
“It’s the sort of film you wish you could force everyone to see, it leaves you with the perhaps painfully naïve conviction that if only enough people saw it, then the world might be a better place to live in”.

http://www.cinemablend.com/review.