After The Killing

Vilma 2022-07-27 15:37:01

Forget about when I became a loyal audience of CBS crime drama. From CSI, CM, NCIS to their various derivative dramas to all kinds of new-born dramas, it is a pleasure to catch them all in one go. The reason may be that the pattern of these episodes makes me feel at ease. Within forty-five minutes, the plot was tight, the case was tortuous, and the police detectives were all brave and martial, and the criminals could not escape the law in the end. Look, although the world is full of perverted murderers (god knows how many people will die on CBS TV every week), there are police uncles who are protecting us endlessly. Well, it’s the detectives from various security departments on American TV. Protecting Americans is better than nothing, and it is a little bit consoling.

However, this series of AMC is quite different, and it will only make you feel distressed and frightened. Killing is not what it wants to say, the extension of the story happens to be after the killing.

How much disaster will the murder of a child bring to a family? In most crime dramas, you will only see middle-class couples wiping their tears while remembering, sad but restrained, as if that were the only thing. However, this drama took the scene into the victim’s family and described in detail the couple’s initial disapproval, to panic, to the relief of finding their daughter, to the panic of sudden changes after the couple learned of their daughter’s disappearance. To the despair of finding the corpse, to the numbness of refusing to accept, to the grief of turmoil, to the emptiness after the funeral, anger, confusion, pain, and resentment stirred together, stagnating the whole air, hard to breathe, as if losing the meaning of life .

The passing of a life. It's not just the self-satisfaction of the murderer, it's not only the opportunity for the criminals to solve the crime, it's not just the social news in the media reports, but the eternal suffering of a family. In the drama, the father was hysterical when he found his daughter's body, and the mother's hand trembling constantly when lighting the cigarette, the camera was cruel and unshitting, and the audience was shocked.

Of course, the vision of this series is not limited to a family. In fact, the screenwriter uses murder as an entry point to radiate to all levels of society. It is quite a reference to The Wire and his ambition to become another sociological model is self-evident. Metaphor. In order to campaign for politicians without compromises, families of black and white marriages. Policemen working hard to detoxify drugs, single mothers and problem teenagers, the current situation of Islam in the United States, all of this, accompanied by the girl's corpse, surfaced.

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