The detective drama Cold Case, which was launched on CBS TV in 2003, was led by the famous producer Brickheimer (producer of CSI), and the famous actress Kathryn Morris (who appeared in the movie) He starred in the minority report and artificial intelligence), which starts at 7 o'clock in the evening every Sunday. Although its ratings are not as good as the traditional hit series Friends and CSI, it is the TV series with the highest ratings in the first season of all time.
Most of the soap operas in the United States are not to my appetite, but films such as 24 Hours and Tru Calling feel more than exciting and not real enough. After watching CSI for a while, I always feel that the reasoning component is not enough. (I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes.)
The detective drama Cold Case, which was launched on CBS TV in 2003, was led by the famous producer Brickheimer (producer of CSI), and the famous actress Kathryn Morris (who appeared in the movie) He starred in the minority report and artificial intelligence), which starts at 7 o'clock in the evening every Sunday. Although its ratings are not as good as the traditional hit series Friends and CSI, it is the TV series with the highest ratings in the first season of all time.
The meaning of Cold Case is that the police have stopped pursuing cases, mostly due to the interruption of clues or the death of key witnesses. Because they were unable to obtain the qualifications for court trials, these files were put on hold in the archives of the police station for a long time and were sealed in dust. Lily Rush is a female detective with a miserable childhood. She grew up in the slums of Philadelphia, and her turbulent life has developed her indifferent and indifferent character. She has no lover and few friends, only a few of her colleagues understand her. Although Lily also handles Hot Cases, her interest in those old antique cases far exceeds those of fresh cases. Having said that, I think the image of the heroine is quite similar to some unsympathetic team leaders in domestic dramas involved in the case, but the producer is very clever to let a weak woman take on such a role. This is a brilliant idea for this drama. one.
The second is the interspersed between the time of the crime and the contemporary shots. The director did not use subtitles to mark out which pieces are in the past and which pieces are in the present. Instead, the characters' age, appearance, dress and different styles of music were used. When an important person appears on the scene, there is often a rapid "new and old" lens contrast, which briefly introduces the different states of the character in the two eras. If there is a "year" scene of this character later, it will not make people feel very much. Abruptly. This kind of scene change is often used at the end. Lily and her colleagues finally brought the criminal to justice and escorted the real murderer into prison. The criminal looked back blankly. Suddenly the camera flashed, and the person looking back blankly became a person. A young man dressed in old fashion. At this time, the heavy music sounded, and I couldn't help but sigh, justice should come sooner indeed.
Cold Case's narrative method is quite changeable, including a large number of interludes and supplementary narrative fragments, but basically it is through a suspect to find another, and there are many physical evidence and circumstantial evidence. Different from the pure reasoning mode of Detective Conan and Gutian and the pure physical evidence mode of the CSI series, Cold Case combines the narrative of the witness and the reasoning of the police. The actor’s performance is also superb. Kathryn plays Lily Rush, who controls her emotions and looks just right. What’s interesting is that people basically forget her real name, but when you mention the "messy hair" female detective in Cold Case Members, but all have impressions.
Most of the cases in Cold Case are murder cases that we can read in newspapers, which are quite realistic. The episode that impressed me a lot was Churchgoing People. A man was bizarrely killed and the case was stranded. The police officer at the time felt that his wife was seriously suspected, but suffered from the lack of physical evidence and personal evidence. After Lily took over, she repeatedly interrogated his wife and son, combined with other physical evidence, and finally found that the son helped his mother to kill the cheating father, and the mother has become insane since then. The episode I just watched today is even more distressing. The woman who became a vegetable woke up from the hospital, but she lost her memory completely. The police found that she and her daughter had fallen from a building at the same time a few years ago. The daughter died and she became a vegetable. The fall was defined as a murder case because someone called the police on the day of the fall. In the end, the investigation found that the mother and daughter had been threatened and sexually harassed by the Social Security Bureau for a long time. In order to preserve their reputation, the mother held her daughter and committed suicide by jumping off the building when she heard the sound of footsteps and the door opening. In fact, the visitor was a high school student who cared about the mother and daughter for a long time and often gave them pizza. My mother just got the wrong person. In the end, the civil servants who were dressed in beasts were punished by justice, but the mother lost her daughter and home, and the high school student who gave them pizza and hoped to enter a prestigious university, also because of seeing the bloody scenes, he was too self-blame and abandoned himself. Up. This ending is really embarrassing.
Finally, I want to mention the music of this show. In Cold Case, the music should not only enhance the atmosphere, but also reflect the characteristics of the times when the crime was committed. For example, one episode took place in the late 70s when disco was popular, so most of the music in the episode was in the style of Funky and Disco, while another case occurred in the black slums of the 1960s, which used a lot of Motown. Style song.
Generally speaking, this is a highly watchable TV series, and I hope that friends in China will have the opportunity to see it.
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