After I watched a lot of American TV series, I found that American TV series are full of routines, especially in series, the routines are fixed, and occasionally there will be different plots, but in general, the patterns are fixed. So after a certain stage, you will find that there are no dramas to watch.
In order to find a TV series that I want to watch, I often open the American TV show heaven website and pay attention to the new TV series, but when I look at the title and genre, I know that it is not the genre I like. As far as the subject matter is concerned, they are all my favorite genres. The plot-based legal dramas focus on reality and understand the reality of the United States through TV dramas. Although TV dramas may not all present reality, they can at least serve as a reference for the real society. And the starring Brian Cranston, Breaking Bad has already seen it, of course he is looking forward to his new work.
After watching the first episode, it feels like the beginning of a common American drama. It explains the background of the characters. Some daily work and life scenes of the characters, including the clothes he wears, the house he lives in, the car he drives, and the work he engages in attract me to enter. Into the role. This is one of my favorite aspects of American TV series. There is no narration, no background explanation, or the level of screenwriters, photographers, directors, etc. are relatively high, so I don’t feel that I’m deliberately explaining the background, so that I can enter the plot more naturally. among. Through some daily scenes, I have a preliminary understanding of the time background and character of the whole drama.
A judge, obviously a successful judge, lives in a big house, drives a BMW, and runs to work. From a career perspective, he is more successful. At the beginning, he tried a case through a judge to show his professionalism and integrity. He is the image of a judge who respects the law and guards justice, and sympathizes with the weak. In our words, he is a good judge for the people.
The judge has a high school son who likes photography. At first glance, he has a carefree life and can do what he likes. It started with a scene of playing poker with a girlfriend in the room, which may be what ordinary American high school students would do. But there are still some shots in the scene are photos placed in the son’s room. The middle-aged woman is connected to the act of driving down the street to offer flowers. It is easy to guess that his mother has passed away. This slightly depressed boy felt sympathy, and it should be said that he rationalized his father's behavior to protect his son at all costs.
Next comes the car accident victims. The scene of a family of four eating breakfast. It looks like a typical middle-class American. A family of four, father, mother, sister and younger brother, today is the younger brother’s birthday, and father gave him a vintage car. Give him the motorcycle, and of course he has to get on the motorcycle right away to go racing.
Then the judge’s son went to the street to offer flowers, guessing that it was the place where his mother died. As a result, he ran into the street gangster to find the fault. The son panicked and drove away in a hurry. The gangster drove to chase him. The judge’s son had asthma. I got the inhaler to the co-pilot in a hurry, and of course I had to pick it up. During the picking process, a car accident also happened.
Next, the judge’s son felt overwhelmed because of the collision. As far as I am concerned, this exaggeration is a bit overdone. I feel that the judge’s son was deliberately shown that the judge’s son was unable to save people because of his great fear, and rationalized his escape. As a bedding, in fact, too much bedding feels counterproductive. I think the normal response is to save or escape. But in this scene, the judge's son has been hesitating. He called the police but didn't say anything. He waited a long time before driving away from the scene.
When he went to the gas station to refuel, he was panicked and was suspected of leaving evidence by the car behind, which paved the way for the judge to be threatened. After the son got home, he hurriedly handled the blood-stained clothes. What was a bit unexpected was that the washing machine was broken. There was blood everywhere in the laundry room. During the treatment, the dog in the family took away the blood-stained rags and hid them under the closet. I thought at the time. It is to leave hidden dangers for the future, but I don’t know why the story behind it is not reflected until the end, but it is likely to pave the way for the next season.
I think the best way to rationalize this drama is that the judge's father learned about the accident his son had caused after returning home. After considering it for a long time, he decided to take his son to the police station to surrender. He found out when he got out of the car to investigate the situation. The victim’s parents immediately recognized that the victim’s father was the largest local gang boss. If the son surrendered to prison, it would be a dead end. Out of the father’s unconditional love for his son, the judge’s father decided not to let his son surrender. It is to help him get rid of the suspicion.
I have to say that the judge's father is an old judge after all. It is really professional to clean up the crime. First, he cleaned up all the blood on the car, and threw all the garbage and the son's blood-stained clothes into the river. Later, I contacted an old black friend who was also the son’s godfather. The mayoral candidate helped deal with the car and reported that his car was lost. The next day the black friend who was looking for someone to steal the car, he took his son to the cemetery to mourn. The deceased mother told her son that they had gone yesterday, which is the day of the car accident, to exclude her son’s alibi. This reminds me of the plot of the Indian movie "Manslaughter". The father in the movie also uses the ambiguity of people's memory of time to obtain an alibi for the family.
This strategy of the old judge really worked. The black boy who stole the car was identified as the murderer. Of course, the black boy pleaded guilty because of the pressure of the gang he served and the police. I thought that the judge’s son was safe, but things were not that simple. The black boy was brutally killed in prison by the boy’s brother. This brother was also a cruel character. He was serving his sentence in prison for a crime. After being released from prison, the black boy was killed in prison under the arrangement of his parents.
Later, the justice police slowly discovered the suspicious points while tracing the black boy's murder. The black boy was not the perpetrator at all. In addition, the judge also received threats. Someone took a video of his son going to the gas station on the day of the accident and demanded that the judge pay 300,000 US dollars for the hush fee. At this time, the old judge not only has to face police investigations, but also deal with new threats. Of course, the old judge would not admit defeat. While dealing with the police, he looked for the threats and finally reached an agreement with the threats, but at this time the gang father of the boy who was hit had already been eyeing him, and the gang father mistakenly thought the judge was the man driving the car. When preparing for revenge, the judge rushed to his wits and told the gang father that the police had obtained evidence that his eldest son had killed the black boy and that he could help him exonerate, so he reached an agreement with the gang father to help his elder son exonerate.
The next step for the judge is to use his expertise, use the weakness of the people around him that trust him, use drunk driving to frame the trial judge, ensure that the case is tried by himself, and then use superb skills to manipulate the jury to help the gang boss's son get rid of the crime.
There is also a main thread in the later stage of the drama that the Lord Judge's son was so distraught that he had hit someone, and he wanted to surrender himself regardless of him. Even at the vigil where the boy was hit, he got in touch with the boy's sister, and later developed a lover relationship. I really don't know what kind of brain circuit is, maybe it is for the need of the plot, because if you don't develop it like this, there will be no ending.
The ending of the play is that the gangster family celebrates the eldest son's exoneration in the hotel. The sister also invited the judge's son to join him and introduce him to his father. The gang father knew that the judge’s son was the real perpetrator, but because he was in love with his daughter, he could also say that he accepted him and gave him a hug. But the plot will not develop in a good direction. At the beginning of the party, the gang father called the judge’s father and told the judge that his son would participate in the celebration in the future, and asked him to see how he would treat the judge’s son, his The original intention should be to tell the judge that he would forgive the judge's son for the sake of his daughter. But the judge misunderstood, so he hurried to the scene. Just then, the brother of the black boy who had been wronged and tragically died came to the scene and prepared to avenge his brother. After entering the scene, he raised his gun and aimed at the elder son of the gang father, but there was no accident. By coincidence, the plot could not develop. The bullet didn't hit the gang father's eldest son, but hit the judge's son and was killed on the spot. The final scene is the judge holding his dead son in pain.
Judging from the end, there should be a second season. After all, the conflict between the gang father and the judge has already begun, and the struggle must be indispensable.
The beginning of the whole drama is a car accident, an accident constitutes the basis of the whole drama, a large number of coincidences promote the development of the whole drama. So, be careful when driving!
As the saying goes:
Don't panic when encountering gangsters
The fuel tank is full
Don't be afraid to take responsibility
Keep you safe forever
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