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The first scene of the first episode of "Kill Eve" ensures that it is different, it has a special texture. After the female killer finished the mission, the scene of eating ice cream in the coffee shop was so simple and light, but the whole drama was eccentric, charming, humorous, and thrilling.
This new drama produced by BBC America is about the special agent Eve who works in the British MI5. Because of an assassination incident, he noticed a female killer with a special behavior pattern, Villanelle, and this female killer was also inexplicably caught Eve attracted, sometimes approached, and sometimes provoked her. The two started a cat-and-mouse game around Europe, and involved the dark past of the female killer, and the mysterious organization behind it...
The plot does not actually get rid of the routine of this kind of story. There is always an organization that is not visible. The organization always has a cool name that is tricky. There will always be unexpected rapes. It always involves government conspiracies. The end is near. There is a shocking reversal...because of the suspense throughout, this kind of story is not a problem in keeping the audience looking down. But the main creator of "Kill Eve" is obviously more ambitious. They hope that the audience will not only pay attention to the last truth, but get more refreshing and refreshing in the process of the cat and mouse game.
In order to do this, they created the most charming female killer image on the screen recently.
At first, I went to see "Kill Eve" with Dr. Yang from "Grey Intern", the actor Sandra Oh. The female agent Eve she plays in this drama has a husband who loves her very much and a stable job, but she is not happy. She was trapped in a position where she couldn't perform her strengths, and her husband didn't really understand her. It wasn't until the appearance of the female killer that Eve's dilemma was finally broken. She was promoted and had a clear goal. Therefore, she was obsessed with tracing and was subconsciously attracted by the female killer herself. The relationship between her and her husband deteriorated as a result, but gradually, she didn't seem to care that much anymore. Eve's character, background, and state are not rare. Carrie in "Homeland Security" is a typical example of this kind of image. They are all work-oriented, dedicated and capable, and enthusiastic enough to not be understood by others, but as long as the backbone of work is supported, they can continue to live strong.
The character itself is no problem, but the opponent is too strong, and the female killer Villanelle is too dazzling, causing Eve's light to be somewhat covered up.
We have seen all kinds of male killers, sensitive, vulnerable, indifferent, anti-social... But the image of female killers still stays in the same template, whether it is Nikita or Charlie, or A victimized and weak posture, or still a sexy symbol from a male perspective, seems to be forced to come this far, still yearning for light, kindness, and a sound personality in his heart.
But Villanelle got rid of these completely. In her, innocence and cruelty coexist, madness and calmness fly together, anti-social and anti-human perverted factor, the next second will become compassionate tenderness, and the next second will return to cold-blooded killing. She has a childlike enthusiasm, and will celebrate birthday parties for the joint people with great fanfare; she has a genius sense of humor, and she can pretend to be dead to attract attention; of course, she also has perverted fanaticism, such as watching the whole process of death. Talking about the preferred method of death is like talking about the favorite ice cream flavor; she also has the same material yearning as an ordinary girl, and her apartment in Paris is filled with beautiful clothes, fashionable furnishings, and expensive champagne. And the most fascinating thing is that she always switches randomly anytime, anywhere in the above examples and even more states, which makes people caught off guard.
I can even feel the creator's preference for this role from the development of the plot. The first few episodes of "Kill Eve" have almost become Villanelle's fancy killing show. The superb BGM, humorous lines, and meticulously crafted scene design make every killing turned into a show full of ritual sense. People can't help but want to admire Villanelle's dedication and focus, and forget how wrong she is doing.
The actor Jodie Comer, who plays Villanelle, once played the pampered third person in "Doctor Foster", and turned out to be a big change in "Kill Eve". Her sweet baby face and convincing performance are all Reflect the complexity of this female killer more vividly.
Although Eve looks too normal compared to Villanelle, once the two play a rival role, the energy is evenly matched, and the chemical reaction seems to be visible to the naked eye, truly worthy of the words "love and kill each other."
The "cat and mouse game" between killers and agents is a very common set of relationships in film and television dramas, and tit-for-tat and sympathy are the most beautiful parts of this set of relationships. But it’s a bit rare that both the killer and the agent are women, so the main creator adds more feminine things to this group of relationships. For example, Villanelle’s way to show Eve is to send her a box of Chinese clothes, and Eve gets it. I was scared for a while, but I couldn’t help but put on a skirt to admire the mirror; for example, the two rarely confronted each other. Eve always wanted to talk to Villanelle. They often cared about each other’s food, shampoo and even gynecological medicine. . Therefore, it is obviously a tight atmosphere with a strong smell of gunpowder, but the interaction between Eve and Villanelle often has a girlfriend-like quality of life. This kind of contradiction and weirdness is precisely the cat and mouse game of female killers and female agents. The most special and fascinating place. .
The screenwriter of "Kill Eve" is Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who wrote and acted in "London Life" before. Audiences who have watched "London Life" will definitely find this screenwriter's signature black humor in "Kill Eve". She is too good at putting people in an embarrassing situation, making him laugh at himself in sorrow, which is both funny and sad, and very absurd.
This style hits the supposedly hard and cold secret agent play, which is another major reason that makes this show unique. In "Kill Eve", it is difficult to see people who are successful in playing cool, and this was originally a sign of this kind of drama. In the description of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the killer will be annoyed to death by the bear kid he kidnapped. The agent will not use the gun so that he will throw it away. The killer and the victim have a discussion about how to die. There are a lot of things, the insider will pounce into the arms of his superiors like a child for comfort...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge subverts the stereotypes of agents, killers, spies, and bureaucrats in previous scenes. They are not so skilled in performing tasks, and communication is not so smooth. There will be a lot of problems in the killing process. They are all Ordinary people with seven emotions and six desires, at this moment, which desire has the upper hand, no one can tell, so what kind of action they will take can not be preset.
This really added a lot of fun to the watching process. Seeing Eve was blocked by a perverted female assassin in her kitchen, and when she was so scared that she collapsed and asked her whether to eat or not, seeing the victim really felt that Villanelle would not kill him because he wanted to sleep. When he saw the seemingly high-ranking intelligence officials suddenly swaying in their hearts, nymphomaniac and spy of the opponent, the funny was completely better than the horror.
However, the main creator has also lost part of the narrative because he has spent too much time in shaping the characters, and the description of human nature is complicated. In the ending of the eighth episode just finished, the conspiracy was revealed and the truth emerged—there was no standard plot for these special agent plays. After the performance, the "he" was taken quite sloppily, and the story was completely unfinished. .
But it seems that the main creator does not care about this. The only thing that he cares about is the relationship between Eve and Villanelle. Their last scene is so rich in levels, so full and complex in emotion, funny, sexy, scary, and sad...
The powerful performances of Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer excuse the messy ending. As long as the two continue to flirt and chase me away in the second season, then you must watch it!
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