One of the feelings I have recently watching the American drama "Lord Judge" is that it is really not easy for people to be middle-aged.
As a middle-class white male in the United States, Lao Bai graduated from Ivy League school and is a respected judge. Because of the unfortunate death of his wife, he lost his wife in middle age and found that there was a rift in the family.
In fact, a large number of film and television works and life examples have shown that in a family, the mother is more important than the father, and the mother is far superior to the father in maintaining family structure and family relationships. Widow children can become talents, while children who lose their mothers are often easier Rebellion has become a problem teenager, even if the father can provide favorable material conditions, family affection, especially the family affection of the mother, in most cases is the bond of a family relationship.
Therefore, Lao Bai encountered a mid-life crisis brought about by the loss of his wife, his son was estranged from himself, and it was difficult for the father and son to communicate with each other. Gu Wuyan also pretended to be okay and continued to live. The departure of a close relative has brought unbearable pain to this family of three, so Lao Bai is even more protective of his calf and desperately protects his son. This is the only relative he has left in the world, and he can no longer bear to lose it again. The pain of a loved one. So when he found out that his hit-and-run son killed the son of the gang boss in the city, he gave up his original plan to let his son surrender himself to reduce punishment, because his professional experience as a judge told him that if his son surrendered, he would definitely He was managed to kill by an angry gang boss family, so he would rather choose to go against his conscience and professional ethics, but also choose to suppress this matter to protect his son, and his part in the nursing home is really very good, watching An old man stays alone in a nursing home without anyone to visit. Maybe it’s because the old man’s dementia is suitable to talk about. Maybe it’s the sincerity of the old man who moved him, or maybe it’s because he sees the tragic end of his future in the old man. Taking precautions, paralyzed in a wheelchair, he confessed that he felt like he was under a lot of pressure recently. He was very tired, and this scene was really emotionally intense.
And all of the above are the most subtle aspects of this "Lord Judge". It shapes the characters very well, and shows you the relationship in the family calmly and restrainedly, so as to understand the motives of the characters' behavior, which is reasonable. The screenwriter is probably someone with rich life experience, or maybe has experienced the pain of bereavement, because many scenes in the play made me in front of the screen feel that kind of predicament personally, and then I thought about what I would choose to do if it were me. This sense of substitution shows that the show is very successful.
At the same time, when you feel the rift brought by bereavement to the family from Lao Bai's family, you will also obviously feel the rift caused by the death of the son of the gang boss's family. Michael Stuhlbarg is fantastic to play this gangster boss. He was also a savage gangster in "Atlantic Empire" before, and I think his performance in this show is almost perfect. He bought his son a motorcycle as a birthday present, and his son was hit and killed by the car. The grieving and angry wife complained that he did not act to avenge his son, and ridiculed him for causing his son's death on his son's motorcycle, which is undoubtedly rubbing salt in the wound.
The gang leader is a bit like a father figure like Lao Bai. He is not as emotional as his wife, but he is undoubtedly very sad and self-blaming. But unlike Lao Bai who studied step by step from a young age and graduated from Ivy League Law School and became a middle-class recognized by mainstream society, he was poor since he was a child and built his own gangster family from scratch. His wealth and identity are not so "glorious" in social evaluation. , so even as the boss, his subordinates would hesitate to know that he wants to take action against the judge. He is very diligent in killing black people, but killing a respected white judge is undoubtedly a declaration of war against the mainstream values of American society. Behind the judge's halo is the The system is the support of the state's violent organs, and the interpersonal network of the police, procuratorate, and courts. The accumulation of these social relationships is the most important foundation for Lao Bai to cover up his son's crimes, and it also reflects some subtle social realities.
Speaking of the boss of the gang, he is more forbearance and restraint, which is the quality of long-term intrigue and practice. He doesn't show too much emotion on the surface, but it can be seen that he values his family, family and family. The death of his son is a huge blow to such a middle-aged man. As the pillar of a family, he also needs to be restrained and calm, not to let his anger disturb his reason, to avoid letting the anger of revenge dominate him and bring unimaginable danger to the whole family, and even the head of the gang, he must obey the rules openly. To abide by the law, we must abide by the rules of the rivers and lakes, and we must balance the interests of all parties, instead of doing whatever we want. So the restraint he showed was very convincing, and that's one of the reasons I liked the script. The pain of losing his son gradually fermented, the family was in crisis, his wife began to make her own decisions out of control, and the harmonious family relationship also faced severe challenges. He finally couldn't bear it anymore, and began to take revenge. The psychological arc of the characters is very well portrayed. persuasive.
When the two lines of the old white family and the black boss's family are laid, and other characters play their positions like chess pieces, the fifth and sixth episodes begin to gradually become high-energy, and the plot begins to rise and fall. All of a sudden, the old white who was desperate for the sake of his family is back again. Faced with the double test of black and white, how should he draw a circle? This makes me nervous. After watching the sixth episode, I am really looking forward to it. The next episode, this time it's not "Breaking Bad", but how similar the plot is...
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