"Avengers 4" has been released for one year, and I still have some nostalgia for the first-generation A6, which has already completed its curtain call. But seeing several actors have more colorful development in the film and television circle after taking off their hero's armor, I am also happy for them.
Dolittle's Fantastic Adventures by "Iron Man", "Marriage Story" and "Jojo Rabbit" by "Sister Widow", "The Rescue" by "Thor", "Blackwater" by "Hulk" "...and this new drama of "Captain America", all let people see their acting skills that were delayed by Marvel!
"Defending Jacob"
The series is created by Apple TV+ , and the story is adapted from the 2012 "New York Times" best-selling novel "The Truth That Will Never Be" , telling a story with a complicated truth.
The 39-year-old "Captain America" Chris Evans plays his father Andrew Barber (nicknamed "Andy") in the play. He does not show his body and shows his acting skills, and the opening is very gloomy and deep.
Andy is an assistant district attorney . He has worked for ten years, has a successful career and a happy family, but when he first appeared in the courtroom, he sat in the dock of the court, completely opposed to his identity as a prosecutor. Why is this?
The story unfolds slowly from his confrontation with the prosecutor.
Andy's wife, Lori (Michelle Dockery), is a veteran of a children's educational institution, and with Andy they raise their only son, Jacob (Jayden Martell).
And Jacob, who is 15 years old, is in middle school, with a calm personality and good academic performance. The family of three lived a happy and happy life like this, and from time to time they planned to go on vacation as a family.
For the upcoming Christmas holiday, Andy proposed to go to Mexico for a vacation together, and his wife was very excited to hear it, but Jacob behaved quite calmly, which disappointed the parents who were in high spirits.
But next, they may be even more disappointed when their vacation plans are interrupted by a murder in town.
As a prosecutor, Andy quickly rushed to the scene of the murder and found that the deceased was Benjamin, a classmate of his son Jacob, and there were no witnesses and no murder weapon at the scene , which made the case full of suspense from the beginning. .
When a classmate died unexpectedly, Andy and his wife hurried back home to comfort their son Jacob. Unexpectedly, Jacob was very indifferent to this, and even bluntly said that those classmates who mourned the deceased were "very hypocritical".
When Andy launched an investigation into the case, he found that all doubts were gradually pointing to his son Jacob——
The park where the deceased was murdered was the only way for Jacob to go to school every day; another classmate of Jacob publicly accused Jacob on the social network of being the murderer because Jacob had a knife in his possession; The fingerprints belonging to Jacob were found on the collar...
A series of doubts caused Andy to fall into doubt and shock. What made him even more unbelievable was that he did find a knife in his son's room...
This made Andy not only unable to continue to investigate the case as a prosecutor, but also became a family member of the suspect, caught in the whirlpool of law and public opinion.
As Jacob's father, of course, he firmly believed that his son was not a murderer, and even defended his son in court as a guardian. But with the in-depth excavation of the case, the Andy family and even the audience discovered that there are many secrets and problems in this happy family of three.
It turned out that Andy's father was in prison for murder and is still serving time in prison. Even his wife who has been married for 17 years does not know about it. Andy had a low self-esteem since he was a child, and he continued to work hard to become a prosecutor in order to wash away the shadow brought by his family background.
But now, Andy began to worry about whether his son inherited the "family violence gene" , he and his wife even consulted a psychiatrist.
And his wife Lori gradually recalled that when Jacob was bowling when he was a child, he tried to hit his friend with a heavy bowling ball. Fortunately, Lori stopped it in time, but Jacob did not seem to realize that he was about to commit a crime. Seriously wrong.
In front of the psychiatrist, the husband and wife began to disagree on their son's judgment, which made people wonder: Do they really know their child that well?
However, in any case, the couple are resolutely defending their son Jacob. In the face of Jacob being charged with first-degree murder, the couple is also committed to clearing his son's name, and Andy even crossed the line.
As a prosecutor, Andy knew that the knife found at home might be an important evidence, but he didn't want to believe that his son would be the murderer, so he knew the law and threw the knife away.
Facing the judgmental gazes and even blatant provocations of other residents in the town, the couple swallowed their anger and maintained relative calm in the house to try their best to hide their inner unease, but their behaviors that collapsed from time to time exposed their hearts. There is no basis for the case.
As the plot unfolds, doubts about the case continue to emerge, but the truth becomes more and more obscure. Of course, Jacob is not the only suspect, but when parents and people around them have their own judgments about the case, and the media continues to fan the flames, everyone is getting farther and farther from the truth of the incident...
It is not difficult to find that what Andy and Lori are defending is not truth, nor justice, or even Jacob, but only the harmony and beauty of the family on the surface. What will they do if they finally find out that Jacob is the murderer?
There is no doubt that Chris Evans plays the most critical role in the play. The conflict between his sensibility and reason is particularly obvious. His emotional expression as a husband and fatherhood, and the contradiction and suffering of his professional identity in the case. The pressure and inner struggle are all performed quite well, which makes people see a completely different performance style from "Captain America". In the end, will the truth of events unravel this wonderful family?
Author: Phoenix
Source: WonderFilm Wonder Film Public Account
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