This may be the worst time the US team has "mixed".
As a laid-off and re-employee of Marvel, Peach President Chris Evans can be said to have tried his best to transform.
The rich third-generation Ranson in "Knives Out" is idle and greedy .
I thought he would be the last blade to be unsheathed, but I didn't expect it to be just a toy knife with a fake appearance.
In the latest episode of " Defending Jacob ", he portrayed a lost loving father figure.
Coincidentally, Jaden Martell's character in "Knives Out" this time is also called Jacob.
Maybe everyone's more impression of him lies in the "Joker's Soul" series, the poor boy who lost his younger brother and was haunted by nightmares.
Jayden, born in 2003, has a sensitive and delicate temperament, which is very suitable for suspense films.
Playing a 14-year-old boy also has no sense of disobedience. (It may also be that the drama was filmed early and the child has not grown tall yet)
Adapted from the novel The Truth That Never Was, "Defending Jacob" is a depressing, outrageous and helpless story.
The 14-year-old son Jacob is accused of murdering a classmate, and the happy family faces an unprecedented crisis.
This time, the US team has no shield, but in order to protect his family, he must fight against all resistance and resentment and fight hard.
01
Andrew (Andy), played by Mr. Tao , is an assistant district attorney with a successful career and a happy family.
If nothing else, he will probably see his son Jacob go to college and become a lawyer, painter, doctor, cook.
Or maybe a prosecutor like him.
And just one morning when Jacob was 14 years old, God knocked on the door and sent a "surprise".
Jacob's classmate, a teenager named Benjamin , was killed and his body was found in Cold Spring Park near the community.
He was stabbed three times and died horribly.
The first witnesses accidentally damaged the scene. The murder weapon was not present, the mobile phone disappeared, and there was no more evidence for a while.
However, a climate of fear soon spread throughout the community.
The school sounded the alarm, and the students squatted in the corner in a circle.
Police have been questioning the streets, and TV broadcasts have been repeating messages encouraging clues.
People were restless that day, and the unsolved cases became a dark shadow over the city.
Until then, neither Andy nor his wife Lori thought it would involve Jacob and ruin their family.
They try to chat with Jacob and hear him say they don't know each other well and that Jacob doesn't seem to like him very much.
Jacob didn't show normal emotions like fear or sadness.
But that's not surprising, after all, teenagers have their own way of digesting their emotions.
Maybe that was what the Andys thought at the time, and they were glad that at least Jacob was safe.
On the second day, things started to change.
Andy investigated the case as a prosecutor and asked his classmates about the case, but everyone hesitated.
More than one person asked if he was Jacob's father.
A girl named Sarah was about to say something, but finally turned and left.
The only suspect at the moment is a man named Leonard.
He was accused of molesting, indecent assault, and assaulting a minor, but was successfully released on bail.
He lived close to the crime scene, and Benjamin had similar physical signs to children he had molested before.
Tragedy is still fresh in the memory.
Almost everyone is watching the case, as well as Andy, the prosecutor in charge of investigating the truth.
The heavy responsibility and pressure overwhelmed him.
He couldn't even face Benjamin's father, a man who was sobbing and questioning.
The only thing he can do is to find out the truth and bring peace to everyone.
But that night, he found something incredible.
Jacob's classmate Derrick, who he thought was his son's friend, even complained on Twitter that Jacob killed Benjamin!
Everyone knows you did it!
You have a knife, I have seen it!
Every word was impacting Andy's brain. In order to dispel doubts, he got into Jacob's bedroom at night and rummaged around.
Accidentally, the pocket knife was found under Jacob's bed.
Will it be the murder weapon?
02
The knife planted a big question mark in Andy's heart.
He called his wife and had a serious conversation with Jacob.
Jacob denied it, saying that Derrick was just talking nonsense and no one would take it seriously.
So Andy and Lori also choose to believe that this is just a small episode in the process of teenagers growing up.
Andy took the knife, drove all the way, and dropped it in some trash can.
As the garbage truck drives farther and farther, no one will find the knife anymore.
But he was too careless, knowing that he didn't keep the items to investigate, which was his first mistake.
Maybe it was because the more he loved, the more blind he became. He didn't dare to let himself think about the relationship between his son and the murderer.
Jacob is just an ordinary 14-year-old boy.
Well, he'd drive in class to get attention, and he'd tell dad jokes in restaurants.
He lamented the hypocrisy of people, and tweeted out the hypocrisy of his classmates.
But in Andy's heart, he was always the cookie that said Dad loved him the most ten years ago, and would not do any harm to society.
Andy is so desperate to prove Jacob's innocence that he's running after the molester suspects.
But because there was no evidence, he could only watch the other side be let go.
Even the police dispelled suspicions about the man, believing he was innocent.
The community dispatched a large number of volunteers and police dogs to search the park for the murder weapon, but found nothing.
However, the police station has new evidence.
Jacob's fingerprints were detected on Benjamin's sweater the day of the accident.
Like a domino that was toppled in an instant, Andy was kicked out of the investigation team, and his pleas were ignored.
The police blocked Andy's house in a mighty way, trying to arrest Jacob.
Andy told his wife, and the two rushed home nervously. Jacob did not go home, however, and was greeted with a search warrant.
The police turned their home, where the most traces of life were left, upside down, and their computers and mobile phones were taken away for evidence.
It wasn't until late at night that Jacob was found, sitting on the school swing, looking lonely and sad.
He told the police something he never told anyone:
He didn't kill Benjamin, he just found him, got terrified and ran away when he saw the body.
He regrets not telling the truth first, for fear that people will blame him for it.
But now it's too late to say anything, he can't go home, he can only meet his parents at the police station.
They hugged in tears, and Andy said he would bail him out anyway, and they would always support him.
The girl's soft singing intertwined with the night, giving everyone a taste of sadness and depression.
Not knowing the truth is really annoying.
Leonard, who had been let go by the police, was swiping the pictures of Benjamin on his phone one by one.
One click, delete.
So, who is the murderer?
03
Although I can't bear it, I still want to tell you that what follows is a tragic moment for the Andy family. This tragedy is so long that it is impossible to see the end.
They had to face reporters' guns and short guns, and couldn't show any signs of confirming people's suspicions.
Because in the eyes of the public, not only was Jacob guilty, but his parents were also sinners.
Jacob was charged with first-degree murder for being bullied by Benjamin, holding a grudge, and stabbing him with a knife that day.
Their family fell into the whirlpool of public opinion and became the target of gossip.
Jacob was described by the news as "a cold-blooded murderer who killed his classmates".
In a matter of days, Andy went from a righteous citizen, a good prosecutor, to a hypocrite defending his son's guilt.
People tried to disguise the family and avoided it, completely forgetting that they were his friends, colleagues, neighbors.
At the same time, Andy also confided to his wife and son a secret he had kept for a long time, about his father, which he rarely mentioned.
When he was a child, his father was in prison for murder, and he is still serving time in prison.
He worries that the prosecution will argue genetically, even if it doesn't sound reasonable.
Andy even met with genetic experts, trying to completely overthrow this damn "murder gene" testimony.
But this didn't improve the family.
They were unwelcome wherever they went, and Lowry was ostracized at work. When he returned home, he saw black words written on the courtyard wall:
Murderer, go to hell!
She began to shake, and couldn't help thinking of the abnormal side of her son growing up.
Pushing down little girls in kindergarten, trying to hit someone's head with a bowling ball...
Like a wounded lioness, she tries to defend her baby, but her words are weak and unconvincing.
With the pressure on his wife, Andy can't do anything.
The son is also becoming more and more closed to himself, and the family is heading in an uncontrollable direction, not knowing which will come first, hope or darkness.
While they were at the center of the storm, there were also those who were guzzling, making the truth even more obscure.
04
Although the title of the play is "Defending Jacob", more of the drama currently lies with Mr. Tao.
A warm moment with his wife and children, trying to clear his son's suspicion, confronting his old enemy prosecutor...
No parent wants his child to be involved in crime.
In particular, Andy is also a prosecutor, and he knows the way.
When his son becomes a suspect in a case, he suddenly doesn't trust the justice system so much.
He didn't want his son to be arrested. He knew that the so-called business affairs and procedures would probably lead to innocent people being charged with indisputable crimes.
But he couldn't stop all this from happening. He was helpless. He could only investigate deeply and protect his son.
Even after a long time, he sat in court with only one sentence: " I know my son and I trust him ."
The couple struggled to provide shelter for their son, but both their families were crumbling.
While people are still trampling on their dignity, the hatred is still unbroken.
It's hard not to feel outraged at the unfair treatment they've encountered.
No matter how involved Jacob was in the matter, they shouldn't be so hated.
This is very similar to last year's American drama "Unbelievable". Everyone thinks that the girl who reported to the police that she was raped is the child who cried wolf.
She was harassed by the police, ran into walls everywhere, and lost her social credit. It was not until the last two capable policewomen found out the truth that she was finally cleared of her innocence.
What did she say that day? She said she was finally able to imagine good things happening.
Perhaps in the world, what is truly terrifying is not only tragedy, but also the prejudice and hypocrisy of the crowd.
It is it that hides the truth.
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