The Underground 'Society' makes no sense

So we have all these 'tough guys' that reject the 'joy-joy' version of 'society', living underground, hungry, eating rats and barely surviving in dirt and misery in the sewers.

Um.. what?

These are MUCH 'toucher' and 'rougher' people than anyone that's living on the surface, including the so-called police officers!

Why are they underground, WHAT are they scared of? A verbal morality code sanction of one credit fine? Hello?

There's absolutely no reason they couldn't just easily, I mean, EASILY rise up, tell the cops what they want and meet almost no resistance, and whatever resistance they face, the wimp cops would make sure it's easy to conquer, barely an inconvenience.

How the heck do cops like THAT keep a big crowd of thugs scared and hidden underground? HOW?

This is YET another movie that tries to have it 'both ways' (or even multiple ways). It's so pathetic, that no one can write a compelling story without resorting to breaking it in the process.

You can't have 'inefficient wimp cops' (so Spartan and Phoenix would seem to have superpowers because of the contrast) AND then have a big crowd of 'tough, rat-eating rebels with nothing to lose' staying hidden underground, because they're SO AFRAID of said wimp cops!

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, G0D D4MNIT!

Sidenote: An interesting observation I made; Phoenix talks about losing his head near the beginning of the movie, as a cool (no pun intended) form of foreshadowing!

Another sidenote: Why the fjord can't Spartan just ask his old friend (the only guy he directly knows from his past) about the three seashells, and possible toilet paper arrangement?

Now that I think about it, what the heck do the 'rebel thugs that live in the sewers' use? Do they also use three seashells or do they also somehow have actual toilet paper?

You can't get rid of toilet paper completely anyway, because there's always need for tissues and other soft paper, even if only for cooking/cleaning stuff and whatnot. I am sure those would be softer than the 'violation fine' paper that Spartan collects (at least we know how many plies Spartan uses).

I guess that's enough for now.. but it's just so sad how almost every movie just falls to incredibly minuscule pieces of dust when you start analyzing them at all. Sigh.

I truly and utterly hope that some day I will find a movie that makes sense and has been written well - perhaps I should write that script..