I just want to...do the right thing.
A minimalist space. Dark tones, empty furnishings, short shots. The sound in the space is only the recording on the tape, and in the noise at the bottom, the almost suffocating breathing sound is cruel to boring. It seems that the reporter is sending out the dying breath of the deceased. The godfather of the Baxter family was silent, but his lightly trembling body and tightly tangled facial features could not conceal the pain in his heart. Listen to it again and again. Besides looking for clues to the murderer, what else is he looking for? Any sound before the son died? This is not recorded in the recording.
The judge continued to bury the evidence. He turned to the black congressman who appeared in the first episode. The judge obviously knew that the black congressman Charlie was a black and white person, so he wanted to make an officially registered vehicle disappear in the world. The judge did not deliberately fabricate any excuses, but hoped that the other party would not ask why. It shows the judge's trust in this person, and it can also be seen that the judge is not hypocritical enough—especially compared with him afterwards. However, because the judge is a recognized noble person, the congressman did not think of his motives from a dark perspective, thinking that he was just out of seeing things and thinking about people. The judge was also happy to follow the boat and maintain a good personality. It is easy to see that the judge feels guilty when doing this kind of thing. But with more and more such behaviors, will guilt still exist?
A phone call from a congressman gently opened a corner of the secret forest of the power system, and a black and white entangled biological chain appeared clearly. The congressman called the deputy director Rudy, and Rudy called the street gang leader Xiao Mo, who assigned the task to the soldier Kofi.
The judge's cover-up operation continued. What is done now is to create an alibi for Adam. The judge's concept is very clear, "This is yesterday"-he wants to tamper with yesterday. And to do this, you can’t just make up verbal words, but take practical actions to fill the agenda.
The judge talked to the female clerk in the breakfast shop about the case that was heard yesterday (it is clear again that the people whom the judge had helped are now his use of resources), the purpose is to induce the female clerk to tell him to go to the scene View the words. The judge's expression is carefully designed. The keyword "shotgun homes" is thrown out when you speak, which is to implant memory targets (information you want the other party to remember) for the listener. He wanted to talk halfway, but said that this was a case, arousing the other's desire for prying, until the other party logically helped him complete the script that was actually his preset.
The judge was in high spirits immediately, and turned around and said to Adam: "Drink up!" He drank the coffee in the cup and drank the coffee in one fell swoop. Imagine that when a person who is well versed in the law and power succumbs to the law or even commits crimes, it is really shocking.
The judge asked Adam to write a card when he was in the coffee shop. It was in preparation for the next stop—the cemetery. The card would be placed in front of the deceased wife's grave. When crossing the road, intentionally or unintentionally (of course intentionally) let a motorcycle speed by, in order to add a touch of anxiety to the situation, the result is the trance of Adam lowering his head, and a glance at the roaring place after he raised his head. .
What the judge said to the veteran at the entrance of the cemetery is definitely not what the judge himself would say. His abnormal behavior was also intentional, and the purpose was to hit a memory target in the mind of the veteran-how could you easily forget a humiliated one? Where are your people? These unknowing strangers, no matter whether they were treated kindly by the judge or verbally directed at them, they did not realize that at that moment, their consciousness and even their fate were gently manipulated by the judge, and the judge needed to mobilize this resource one day At time, it will act like an awakened time capsule immediately. In one or two moments of life, they are the puppets of the judge. We can see how in a completely unequal power relationship, the powers turn their hands into clouds and turn their hands into rain.
In the dialogue in front of the tombstone, the judge explained to Adam the reasons for his series of actions and words in front of the coffee shop and the cemetery. He was forging a meticulous alibi for Adam. For the judge, this is not to be done, but Adam cannot deceive his own heart. We will find that although the judge and Adam are a family and seem to be a community of interests, what the judge did is to protect Adam, but Adam and his father have a clear value split. The most direct resistance to all the judge's cover-ups turned out to come from the son he tried his best to defend. In the future, we will see more and more clearly how Adam broke with his father step by step and became the most powerful opponent of the judge's cover-up behavior.
Kofi received the task of dealing with the vehicle that caused the accident and went to the street where the judge's house was located. He took off his hoodie and was seen by the female neighbor across from the judge's house.
The judge returned to the court to work, and Detective Castro was waiting for him in the office. Castro was one of the two phone calls (none of them) made before the judge took Adam to the police station to surrender last night.
Judging from Castro's series of languages and sub-languages, she has a good impression of judges. The judge had to make up a suitable excuse for the phone call last night, and the judge did. However, it is worth noting how this excuse came up. The answer is that the judge copied the reason that the black congressman gave him-long pain is not as good as short pain, and the disappearance of the car of the deceased wife is a good thing-so the judge hopes that Castro will not be held accountable. The disappearance of the car.
The judge's performance was superb, because as he said in the cemetery, his words, actions, and emotions were "very close to the facts." But when Castro showed a frankly disapproving smile, the judge's facial muscles froze suddenly, because he feared that his lie would be seen through Castro's bright eyes. When Castro continued, the judge realized that Castro hadn't noticed his secret, and he eased his nervousness a little bit-he swallowed his throat (Cranston's performance was subtle).
The judge met a police detective with a sense of justice (things are gathered in groups, people are divided in groups, lawyer Lee Delamere is the same person), she wants to pursue this so-called theft case. In the dialogue between the two, the audience learned that the judge's wife died in a murder in a shop, which explains why Adam went to put photos and flowers in front of a shop in a black community on the day of his mother's death.
For the judge, he did not have to stop Castro, because the black congressman assured him that the car would disappear. But things are counterproductive, and people are not as good as heaven. But Tiansuan is man-made after all. Kofi was stopped by the traffic police. They said he ran through a red light, but the first scene of the transition was obviously that he was waiting for the red light. Considering that this is the Lower Ninth District where blacks live, the traffic police are suspected of excessive law enforcement and even racial prejudice (you can also recall that Adam drove in the same area, and the traffic police looked at him and did nothing). Kofi's move to throw away the baseball (an important clue prop) caused a strong reaction from the traffic police, which also shows that there are deep racial contradictions hidden in the city. Kofi was finally arrested brutally, and there is no room for comment. The judge's plan went wrong in this way. Not to mention irony, it is somewhat absurd. There are so many intricate and unpredictable things in this city.
At this time, the two teenagers, Adam and Kofi, began to cross over. When Adam re-entered normal campus life, Kofi was taken into the police car, and the isolation net covered with the camera enveloped him firmly. This almost implies that Kofi replaced Adam's fate. Judging from the follow-up plot, this is indeed the case.
Next, there is a very important but easily overlooked plot, which is Adam’s understanding of the relationship between the photographer and the subject in the photography class (the photography teacher is the woman sleeping on Adam’s bed at the beginning of the first episode). The statement shows that he is a person with strong empathy. Like photographer Vivienne Meyer, he can not be disturbed by the medium (because the medium is also a barrier), and see the real people behind the medium. Such values will prevent him from ignoring the accident for which he must be held responsible, also unable to forget the life that died in front of him, and even more unable to bury the truth comfortably.
While waiting for processing at the police station, Kofi made a crooked idea and wanted to bribe the police with the baseball signed by the legendary star that was left from the car and let him go. This kind of signature baseball is definitely very precious and rare, so it is a very directional clue, it depends on how to play its role later.
What caught the judge off guard happened, the car in the accident was detained, and the conscientious Castroma found the "stolen" car. Things are going out of control. In order to cover up yesterday, he has to cover up today and then tomorrow. After hanging up the phone, a high-angle overhead shot appeared again, and the blinds stood like a monument, like a silent but stern interrogation, which made him breathless.
According to the GPS location records of the car, Castro found that the car was to be sent to the junkyard for scrapping. Combining that the original owner was the judge’s wife Robin, the judge reported the theft date as Robin’s anniversary. The theft is suspected to be related to Robin's murder. The judge couldn't think of a lie that justified his words for a while, so a time bomb was planted. The judge had no choice but to continue to avoid the crisis by exploiting his feelings towards his wife (and also exploiting his deceased wife). The more he must conceal his inferiority, the more the judge must act noble, and he will become more hypocritical and even sinful.
Castro noticed that the judge called his name for the first time, and the judge's intentional or unintentional title was once again shocking. From his look, I can't tell at all that he did it intentionally, but what if he did it intentionally?
The judge tried to find out the name of the "thief" but was unsuccessful. At this moment, he couldn't control it a little, and asked "how old is he". I heard that the "thief" was only seventeen years old and was Adam's peer. He developed compassion and couldn't bear to let a child be punished by law for himself. It may also be because of this compassion that the judge made up the lie that both he and Adam liked to put the key on the tire, so that Kofi would not be accused of burglary. This statement is too coincidental to persuade people, and the judge shouldn't have made such a mistake. But it is also possible that the judge is not trying to reduce the crime of "thief", but just looking for a reasonable explanation for the theft of the car. Seeing that the judge is about to survive the crisis without any risk, yet again, as many previous episodes implied, the truth is not only impossible to hide, but must break through the thin new soil at any time and be exposed to the light. With a bump, the tattered trolley climbed over the buffer zone, and at the same time fell off a piece of parts from the victim's locomotive. A theft case transitioned to a hit-and-run case. The judge hiding in the shadows was hit on the head by the sun, and it became an extravagant hope to stay out of the incident.
When this "stolen" vehicle is connected to the accident, you discover how quickly the police department responded, or in other words, how strong the Baxter family's ability to control intelligence and police resources. Chief Cusack received instructions from Baxter's family, and he was about to use his signature baseball to bribe Coffey, who was about to leave the police station, to detain him.
A policeman drove the judge home and talked about a case. A man who stole underwear, the judge did not convict him, and later he became a rape and murderer. The judge may feel a little embarrassed, but he emphasized that the verdict cannot be expected to be tried, but evidence should be paid attention to.
(You try a case on the evidence). This sentence is undoubtedly very rational and correct, but it seems ironic since the judge is fabricating perjury to exonerate his son.
Guilt made Adam feel uneasy, as he admired in his photography class—the photographer's concern for the individual's life, he could not ignore a life that died because of himself, so he used the Internet to understand the dead. Another very outstanding detail setting, the sound of the siren is approaching, the fear hidden in Adam's heart is fully mobilized, and the anxiety of the justice trial is always watching the soul of the person who has escaped the culpability. For criminals who seem to be at large, perhaps the social power mechanism has failed to punish criminal acts, but the natural power mechanism has never had to interrupt the trial of human crimes.
When the police followed the judge and walked into the house, Adam panicked thinking that the judge had already reported the case. He apologized and the judge hurriedly stopped him.
The police sent the judge back in order to obtain evidence from Adam, because the judge said it was Adam who drove the car last. The judge stopped Adam from speaking when the police went to the bathroom. He was guarding against the seemingly inattentive police, who might be inducing them to collude. In fact, the policeman should have been careless, but he asked a question routinely, but Adam’s answer conflicted with the judge’s testimony. He denied that he had driven the car.
As a result, the judge had a quarrel with Adam. Jiang Ge on the side tried desperately to pick up the bloody rag. Sooner or later, the tension of the Dongchuang incident spread uncontrollably. The judge's anger caused Adam to become ill, like resetting the scene of the car accident that day.
The judge asked Adam carefully to determine how many holes he needed to fill. The stranger who appeared at the gas station needs him to "solve", but this is still a trivial matter. The more serious problem is that the inhaler left at the scene is covered with Adam's fingerprints.
Kofi, who had nothing to do with the main line of the story, is getting more and more involved in this case. Under pressure from the Baxter family, the local gangster predator, the police chief Cusack under his control conducted illegal interrogation and torture on Kofi under pressure. At this time, the parallel narrative structure appeared again, and when Kofi endured the torture, he also showed the judge and Adam at the same time. This means that Kofi's current and subsequent encounters are strongly related to the actions and decisions of the father and son. Kofi is suffering from physical pain, while the judge and Adam are inevitably burdened with moral torment. The night was extremely dark, as if braving the smoke of sin, in the cold soundtrack, Adam sat up in shock from the darkness.
Cusack took the New Orleans police into a raid on the Famarie house, completely acting as a gangster. This plot is like a blow, because we discovered that Kofi turned out to be Fei Marie's eldest son! In other words, the judge saved the family on the first day and destroyed the family the next day-although he should not bear all the responsibility. This tragic turning point caused the whole incident to quickly turn into a dead corner. The fate of others and the judge's own fate are closely intertwined. Any subsequent actions of the judge will influence the fate of the innocent, and he is increasingly unable to The identity of the uninformed person deceived himself-because Adam relayed Nancy's words to the judge, and the judge knew what Kofi would face. Adam's eyes ooze hatred, and he thinks Kofi is the scapegoat who was pushed to the gallows by the judge.
Kofi was sent to the prison cell, behind the iron bars, there was black skin crowded like canned sardines. City? order? justice? In the square, the torch of power cast a dark cloud of ink.
On the night of going to the police station, another person contacted by the judge-lawyer Li, appeared. Li is a student of the judge, and it is also an obvious paternal relationship setting. Li admires the judge as much as Nancy. In order to cover up the previous lie, the judge fabricated the next lie. The judge misled Li into thinking that he was interesting to her.
The lust gang easily got in touch with Kofi who had just been imprisoned, which once again reflected the fundamental decay of the public power system. Yunian Gang asked Kofi to take the matter down. Although he was completely innocent, he didn't even know what case he was supporting. It was ridiculously absurd. The wishful gang is losing the car to protect the handsome, the "car" is Kofi, and the "shuai" is naturally the powerful figure behind the scenes-Congressman Charlie. If Kofi doesn't agree, his family will be threatened. A low-level soldier like him has no choice at all.
In some magnificent and some austere music, the camera directly shoots the pillars and pedestals of the court from a very high angle, creating a strong sense of inviolability, just like the gaze of a god.
Kofi's case was heard in public. Both the judge and Adam acted as bystanders and witnessed a trial in which they were actually insiders.
Kofi was charged rashly and simply in court (without a defense lawyer beside him). He was arrested for stealing a car, and the car crashed and killed Rocco Baxter, so he was regarded as a hit-and-run. Such an allegation is extremely crude, because it does not prove that the driver of the car that killed Rocco was also Kofi. The judge in court did not question the facts of the case, because he also acquiesced that Kofi was the perpetrator. The judge in court only asked one sentence: "Are you in a gang?" This question was because he had an obvious pre-judgment for the accident. He believed that Rocco's death was the result of a gang struggle, and Kofi killed him for the gang. The son of the Baxter family. It is normal for ordinary people to make such guesses, but a judicial official cannot presuppose such obvious deviations. After all, everything has to be told about the facts and see the evidence. What is embarrassing is that you don't know if you should say that Kofi is unfortunate, because you didn't get a judge like Deshato to preside over him.
When Kofi was brutally taken off his clothes, it was the underprivileged people in this society who were publicly scrutinized, humiliated, and delayed by the eyes of power. In New Orleans in the play, such weak people are African Americans in the Lower Nine Districts. However, the black people at the bottom not only endured racial injustice, but also suffered power oppression within the same race. Kofi is just a soldier. When he saw his mother being held on the shoulder by Xiao Mo, he knew that he had no free choice. The gang leader behind the scenes determined his fate as a victim.
At this time, the judge saw Femari, who was extremely anxious, and he quickly inferred the relationship between Kofi and Femari.
Adam came to the scene at this time and witnessed the scene where Kofi was sentenced. Adam's appearance from a height means that he has a high degree of morality in him. He is a person with a strong sense of morality. At the same time, the gaze he cast towards the trial result also represented the gaze from the eye of nature.
When Kofi said the "guilty", the judge seemed to be relieved, and a stone fell in his heart; it seemed that his face suddenly tightened, and another stone hung from his heart.
Fei Marie chased the judge out of the court, calling out "Judge! Judge!" To the judge, he was hammering at his conscience: "Judge! Judge!" He couldn't bear the torture of his conscience at all, and he yelled out of control. The voice arrangement was deliberately made here, the judge’s voice was amplified, and the noisy human speech around suddenly became silent, the air seemed to freeze, and everyone looked back in full—including the Baxter family in the background.
The focus of the lens naturally shifted to the Baxter family's side, and they also held that kind of thinking-this is the revenge of the desire to help them. He learned from the elder that he also had an eldest son who had enmity with the Yulian Gang, and he believed that this led to revenge for the younger son. When the boss talked about the facts about these gang crimes, his wife stepped aside to keep her absent, to show her ignorance of the gang crime and avoid spreading to herself when her husband had an accident.
"I want to clean up this city and make it look new!" An unintentional traffic accident quickly turned into a storm of gang struggles and plunged the entire city into crisis.
Trials are politics on the table, and what happens in every corner of the court after the adjournment is the real politics. Baxter declared war at the window outside the court (second floor); Xiao Mo relayed the news to the deputy director at the entrance of the court (first floor), and the deputy director returned to Charlie; while in the parking lot (underground) the judge asked Li to help Kofi to reduce his sentence to reduce His own guilt, but he had to continue to maintain a noble personality to establish legitimacy for his actions. "I just... think it's the right thing to do." But the judge has long given up on doing the right thing.
And Adam, who overlooked the entire court scene (third floor), walked slowly to the position where Kofi stood when he was sentenced, with his hands folded like a suspect in handcuffs, the light splitting from the center of his eyebrows and nose, his face was dark and low. Head first, experiencing this unfinished soul trial.
Public number: Duan Xuesheng
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