As an in-depth lover and creator of spy war dramas, I went to play a few episodes of the national drama "Forerunner" with great enthusiasm. She was shocked by her plot logic and persuaded her to retreat, and then watch "Agent Cohen", wanting to wash my eyes. After watching a political propaganda drama, she is clear and the video is very beautiful, but as a spy war drama, it is not too exciting.
The training part of the first two episodes is wonderful, how an office clerk can become an entry-level agent and can go out on field missions within half a year of training. This is also a very legendary part. The best thing about the spy drama is the identity crisis, and the mission is in danger, but these bridge segments are all seen through at a glance, there is no danger, this is the reason why this story is always smooth, like a biographical account. The only climax of the second episode is Cohen’s arrest and the fourth episode of the coup d’état. It's a pity that because this play is the main theme of praise, when there are no more paving characters to do the task, they dig holes to betray their friends and act as accomplices to the executioner. This is an internal struggle. The character of Cohn seems to be a machine that sends intelligence on tasks. There is a lack of portrayal of the complexity of the character outside of the incident. As a result, the image of such a legendary character is very flat. In fact, it is difficult for the audience to perceive the characteristics of the character.
The creative standpoint ultimately determines everything. This is a character who must be sung no matter what, so when he created, many of the characters’ true personality aspects were hidden. For example, he can conquer so many high-level Syrians. The specific personality charm is What? A few scenes have not completed this shaping at all. They are rich, attractive, and good at discovering people’s needs and weaknesses. All these require a scene to accumulate support, but if there are too many such scenes, the characters will appear very slick and hypocritical. Being good at manipulating people's minds, the characters will not be too positive, but this is originally a professional skill for spies. How can spies stay clean and self-conscious in the face of temptation? This seems untrue, but screenwriters can only do so. The series adapted from real-life stories are faced with such difficulties. It is difficult for the characters to have creative space, and fiction or the negative characteristics of the characters are not allowed to be created.
The professional skills of a spy contains technical knowledge, operational skills, and intuitive talent. This drama only has the third part of the characters. The abilities of the first two parts are really not well written, so when you look at it as a spy scene as a whole, it is obviously technical. The content is not enough. Occupying the radio station and reporting to their own intelligence agents to talk about football, such a thrilling thing can be done. When the Syrian intelligence agencies eat shit as if they are not afraid, the radio waves interfere with the TV signal and attract the attention of the other party; Syria is really messy. It's so messy that you can steal information under your nose. When I watched these plots, I thought I was reading Shuangwen.
This drama is undoubtedly a story from an Israeli perspective. It is easy to think of our own anti-Japanese drama. How can we make a story to impress people outside our country? The answer is: not at all! why? The perspective of the main theme of the spy war drama is for the people of the country. If the characters and their behavior are affirmed, they cannot write about the complexity of the motivation. They can only be a patriot and a victim, and the creative space for the characters is very small; secondly, the main theme of the spy War dramas can only write that the profession of spy is a hero, but interesting and excellent spy war dramas are all "counter-espionage" systems, reflecting on the spy profession, such as "Latent", which uses a huge number of family dramas and emotional dramas to pave the way for confrontation. The scene of stealing information, playing tricks, betraying, balancing the positive colors of the characters, and also writes the human suffering caused by the identity of the spy, carefully afterwards, "Latent" is somewhat helpless for this way of working and the sacrifice of such people. ; "Before Dawn" writes about two brothers who fell in love and killed each other, but in the end it disappeared, which also has the same meaning. The true background of spy stories should be the anti-espionage system, or at least reflection on spies. (Refer to the spy novel of the old man Le Carré) And this kind of orientation completely conflicts with the tone of the main melody.
"Agent Cohen" is a piece of Israeli history. It records the pain of the Israeli people. It is a spy story with the main theme. Its images are very good, the editing rhythm, and the sound and music are excellent. What is lacking is that the script could not be shaped and cannot be shaped. The complexity of the characters, because there are no characters, the twists and turns of the incident, and the essential characteristics of the spy profession have not come out.
In this play, you can look at the Syrian Damascus style, look at the legendary Golan Heights and the Grand Gale Lake, and understand the geopolitics of the Middle East.
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