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The 70th Emmy Awards finalists announced, it is still HBO sweeping...
The classic drama [Game of Thrones] leads with 22 nominations, while the succession drama [Western World] follows closely behind with 21 nominations.
The Lannister sisters and the receptionists have been shortlisted for the awards!
Although HBO's heroic handwriting must produce excellent products...
But more importantly, the old driver's vision is harsh, and all the episodes developed have pinched the audience's appetite!
(In addition to scale, there is depth)
Just as the HBO Emmy Awards were leading the way, a drama quietly started airing.
Inspector, let me blow a wave:
Next year's Emmy Awards, this new drama will definitely lead the way!
Sharp weapon
Sharp Objects
Camille Buley, a tabloid reporter who looks like mud can't support the wall.
When her career did not improve, the editor-in-chief asked her to rush to her hometown of Wind Valley, Missouri, to report on an unresolved murder...
Last year, she was strangled to death in Fenggu Town, her hometown, and another girl went missing before the case was solved.
Outlying towns, missing girls, serial killers...
The editor-in-chief hopes that Camille will rush to her hometown to grab this report.
But Camille, who had no ambitions, didn't want to stand up.
She is always inseparable from the moisturizing of tobacco and alcohol. There are no cosmetics in her bag, but there are many large and small wine bottles...
Even the mineral water bottles were secretly replaced with vodka by her!
Even drinking while driving...
She is also a female journalist. She was a career beauty when she was Superman's girlfriend, but now she has become a drunkard.
(Dangerous behavior, do not imitate)
She also described herself in a smashing way:
Our hometown is either a wealthy upper class family. Either it is worthless rubbish, and I am the rubbish of rich people!
For Camille, going home to interview should be like a fish in water...
After all, returning to a familiar place, having a reliable network, and casual interviews can grasp the dry goods that others can't get.
But her reality is contrary to our imagination:
Because of her arrival, Fenggu Town has become a soldier!
First, the chief of police said that she had no comment on the interview...
Then her arrival was immediately uploaded in the town...
What's more weird is that there are eyeliners secretly observing her whereabouts in the town...
If it is reasonable for the Secretary to dislike reporters, then Camille's mother was completely surprised by her performance!
Taking advantage of the night, Camille returned to her long-lost home, but when her mother saw her, she slammed her coldly...
"I'm afraid my house is not ready to welcome visitors..."
He was obviously a family member, but he was treated as a guest.
In the eyes of her mother, she is even an uninvited guest!
She resisted the interview not because she was not self-motivated, but because her hometown Fenggu Town did not welcome her arrival...
The police are on guard against reporters taking the opportunity to speculate on the news.
Residents of the small town do not want to face the scars left by the murder.
The mother was afraid that her appearance would disrupt the current comfortable life.
Just as Camille and various forces were anxious, the body of the missing girl appeared.
And the town of Wind Valley fell into a new panic...
In fact, the story of [Li Qi] is obviously not as simple as "a crime interview"...
It's more like a trip to reveal the past!
Just like the cracked face in the title of [Lee Weapon] and the poster, the murder that cut through the town of Wind Valley also cut through Camille's hidden memories.
What exactly has Camille experienced?
In the premiere episode, she just returned to her hometown, still a mystery to the audience...
But when the camera passed Camille in the bathtub, the dim light illuminates her naked body, and on her skin...
Engraved with dense scars!
This [Sharp Tool] is adapted from Gillian Flynn ’s debut...
The movie [The Lost Lover] let the audience see her imagination, and the black-bellied wife full of vengeance frightened the man and collapsed.
Different from the exaggerated midlife crisis in [The Lost Lover]...
The story of this [Sharp Tool] is more complicated!
The serial murders of young girls in reality provide a suspenseful background, and memories of the family tragedy of Camille are the core of the story.
Amy Adams undoubtedly grabbed a good script this time...
Although there is no Oscar blessing, she is definitely an uncrowned queen!
Whether it is Superman's girlfriend's dazzling appearance, or the literary and artistic intelligence of taking Chinese lessons with aliens, she can easily control...
Oscar will be released first, and will not run away after Emmy next year!
Old drama of bone to send Tricia Clarkson plays the mother of the iceberg ...
And the new generation Sophia Lilith , who is famous for [Clown Back to the Soul] , plays the childhood Camille of the past.
These three female images constitute the entire conflict:
Camille reveals the memories, her mother avoids the memories, and Camille in her childhood is a series of contradictions...
In addition to the actor cast in place, the director of this play is even more splendid!
Although Jean Marc Varé ’s name is a bit strange...
But his works are absolutely thunderous:
Recently, [Dallas Buyers Club ], which is often compared with [I’m not the God of Medicine ], and last year’s popular American TV series [ Big and Small Lies] are both his handwriting.
His shots are realistic and powerful, and the details are essays, grasping the actor's momentary micro-expression to drive an emotional narrative...
Even his soundtrack makes you can’t help but add it to the playlist and play it in a loop...
After [Big Lies] started broadcasting, the playlist of the little girl Chloe in the play was quickly picked up by the fans for collection loop!
A good script, a good actor, a good director...
This [Sharp Tool] is hard to hit the street!
Just launch it in IMDb 8.6 points, IMDB get 8.5 points, but maintained a Rotten Tomatoes 96% of freshness ...
But in addition to the praise, there are also drama fans criticizing [the weapon]'s procrastination...
Didn’t you say that you’re ready to blow the rhythm of the sky?
In fact, the previous plot was sorted out by the inspector. If you follow the original Mark narration method...
This [Sharp Tool] is simply another version of the conspiracy of [Western World]!
So, it takes a little skill to understand [the weapon]...
The clever cascade of multi-time and space narratives
The most daunting thing when chasing [Western World] is to sort out the timeline...
After HBO just finished broadcasting [Western World], [Sharp Weapon] was sent to test whether everyone’s skills in chasing drama were proficient.
At the beginning of the premiere episode, two girls roller skating home...
When entering the door, the two of them carefully avoided the sight of their parents, and then quietly returned to their room upstairs.
But when the door was opened, Camille, the heroine lay on the bed...
Pay attention to two details of this play:
Before pushing the door, the two of them were in Camille’s home, the retro and elegant decoration style showed a sense of age...
After the door is pushed, it becomes a modern decoration style. There is also a poster of Obama on the wall stating that the time is now...
When the girl stabbed Camille's hand with a pin, the two girls disappeared instantly, leaving only Camille who was awakened.
This foreplay cleverly shows Camille's dream!
In the dream, Camille and her sister from childhood came home, and after pushing the door open, they crossed to Camille’s current apartment...
The point of awakening is the moment when the pin stings Camille.
Why do you judge that this girl is the Camille of childhood?
Look carefully at the snacks in the girl’s pocket...
After the adult Camille woke up, the same snack packaging as the girl in the dreamland appeared on the floor in front of the bed.
(It is said that the taste bud experience of childhood determines the taste of a lifetime)
Similar scene transitions have not only happened this time in the play, but in addition to the narrative of deception, [Li Qi] has done enough articles in the details...
It's just that the details are scattered in a lot of fragments, and they are all collected by the audience!
Details waiting for the audience to explore for themselves
This is a "crime, suspense, and horror" American drama, but [Li Qi] is obviously different from previous American dramas of this type...
In the course of the story, the lens sprinkled a lot of details.
The audience is like participating in a decryption game, they need to observe and filter out valuable information in person!
It started with the tingling of the pin that awakened Camille ...
Why not wake up, but wake up with pain?
Pay attention to the details of the later plot:
On the desk in Camille's apartment, the lens flashed across densely carved knife marks, all of which were negative words.
When she masturbated in the hotel, she recalled her childhood experience...
The picture is a club for boys, which is filled with animal skins and meat from hunting and erotic pictures with heavy tastes.
But the violence of these men brought her pleasure!
Then contact Camille's full-body engraved scar.
Acupuncture dreams, violent masturbation, past scars...
These details show the unknown side of Camille, and she is likely to have been abused and tend to be self-abuse .
Don’t rush to turn off the player after the first play is delivered...
This English side proves Camille’s experience:
If you or someone around you is experiencing self-harm or mentally abnormal behavior, you can contact the helpline.
(Similar thoughtful actions also appeared in [Thirteen Reasons])
At the end, she also recalled the most painful scene...
The younger sister who was playing with herself was lying in the coffin, and she tried to wipe off the makeup of the corpse and found some traces.
My sister may have experienced the same experience, but did not survive...
If they have been abused, who would it come from?
A mother with a strong desire for control, a biological father who left no trace, or a boyfriend that Camille used to date in a small town...
These suspects will be the focus of the next plot.
Borders, small towns, and American life on the fringe
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or a trend...
More and more American film and television works are paying attention to one place:
Deviating from the prosperous east and west coasts, deep into the interior and borders, there seemed to be derailed from modern times and hesitated.
Taylor Sheridan’s Border Trilogy...
The [three billboards] that swept the major awards last year...
Inspector I was still playing Sheridan's [Huangshi] last week...
And then to this [Sharp Tool] produced by HBO...
Experience Camille’s hometown, Fenggu Town, which has maintained a population of less than 2,000 for many years, and most of them rely on pig slaughter for their livelihoods.
The lagging development and the out-of-connected survival make it impossible for people to see any hope.
Even the children said: It's so dead here!
When there is a maiming of a young girl, even the victim family has no time to take care of the progress of the case because they have to continue to raise a family of children...
This is even more hopeless than [three billboards].
The warnings and guidelines are all posted on the police station’s one-third of an acre...
Thirteen years ago, the notice of demolition of the Earth posted on the Centaur in [The Hitchhiker's Guide] was staged again, which was helpless.
The so-called [Sharp weapon] not only refers to Camille’s experience of being abused, but also a peep into the social lesions through this scar...
Just like the first shot...
Camille was roller skating in her childhood, and the moment she desperately tried to catch her sister was like a fable, and the beauty was heartbreaking.
Reaching out, the redeemed is actually ourselves.
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