This drama is very interesting, although it is a cop crime film, but it provides a very good incision to observe American society. I wrote a movie review before, I haven't finished it yet, it was accidentally deleted without saving, I don't want to I wrote it all over again. However, I recently discussed the show with others, and decided to write a review.
From the stark contrast in the film I don't know if it was deliberately set by the screenwriter,
Let’s talk about drugs, drugs. In the drama, the middle class and the bottom are using them (the daughter of the heroine smokes marijuana, and the poor black blacks are seriously addicted to drugs), but drugs are only the spice of life for the former, but the poison that can destroy their lives for the latter
Let’s talk about sexual openness. Both the middle class and the bottom class in the show are influenced by this cultural atmosphere. For the former, it’s just a spice of life, and for the latter, they don’t have much psychological barriers when they become prostitutes.
In stark contrast, what is exposed is the increasingly proliferating neo-liberal cultural environment, which allows the middle and upper classes to enjoy more, and at the same time makes the survival of the lower classes worse. In this drama, it is even more so that the middle class and The lower class is presented in the way that the former consumes the latter, and conflicts and collisions occur. The victimized little girl from a poor single-parent family, and the middle-aged man who is used to a boring middle-class life and seeks excitement, the latter has a conflict in the process of consuming the former, The entire episode also revolves around this event.
Beyond this line, it is naturally the line of entanglement between the police heroine and her dead son. And her son's death is actually not unrelated to the homicide. It does not mean that it is directly related. Rather, the homicide The social existence and reality reflected behind it are also part of the objective conditions for her son's ultimate end.
The heroine's son, if nothing else, will be admitted to a good school just like her sister, and live a middle-class life like their parents in the past and countless Americans in the past, but unexpectedly, flooding Because of the drugs and sex at the bottom (the son is addicted to drugs and having fun with his girlfriend everywhere), he finally broke through the door of the middle-class heroine, so this accident finally happened. His son's degeneration to the bottom is essentially neoliberalism When the cultural environment hurts the bottom, it also has a backlash on the middle . When they enjoy the convenience of freedom and the cheapness of the bottom, they never thought that the bitter fruit of freedom would one day impact their stable life so violently.
So a battle of defense, the battle of middle-class life, began. The leader is the heroine. And her identity, the police, the guardian of the system. It is also doomed that she has no reason not to defend the stability she has been used to for decades Her main battle is to compete with her daughter-in-law for custody of her grandson. In her opinion, if she loses, she will lose completely to the people at the bottom who are pulling her son into the water in her opinion, which is even more unbearable. It is the deep fear of falling down as part of the family that she faces as a middle class, a fear that has haunted her since the death of her son. Another battleground is the crime line, where the protagonist shoots The little boy, and the truth of the case is that the boy shot and killed the bottom girl in order to maintain his middle-class family life. At the end of the episode, the daughter-in-law surrendered to the heroine (the material conditions of the middle class), and the heroine reconciled with her son and the past (declared Victory), reconciled with family members, the slightly rebellious daughter also obeyed her mother's advice to leave this small town with bleak prospects and choose to go to a big city that represents the middle and upper classes. And those "damn" bottom , also died, this defense battle, they won, but did they really win?
Has the split between classes eased? Has the deep-seated contradictions eased? Has her victory disintegrated the social foundation for similar incidents to happen again? None, she is just a paper maker, and she continues to maintain the promotion of the upper classes. The ideology that caused people to tear and pull, is trying to maintain such an order that will eventually be broken. And the nightmare of Dongcheng will continue to linger on countless Dongcheng in this land.
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