When most of the suspenseful police and criminal American dramas are obsessed with constantly accumulating visual costs, and frantically squeezing into the story global exploration, science fiction special effects, huge casts and epic grand narratives, Netflix's "Interrogation Showdown" is ingenious. It runs counter to the market and has done enough subtraction. This story is confined to the police interrogation room. The suspenseful reasoning story developed by the police detective and the criminal suspect through the heart-to-heart cat-and-mouse game brings the audience a long-lost new experience.
"Interrogation Showdown" is composed of 12 stories surrounding the three different countries of Britain, France, Germany and Spain. The characters of four different languages and different cultures have found the emotional connection point in the face of the truth of the crime. The first to bear the brunt of the series of stories is "Interrogation Showdown: Britain".
The first case in the series occurred in the 23rd hour of the interrogation. Dr. Fallon gave no more testimony except "no comment."
As the first suspect in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old adopted daughter, all the evidence in the hands of the British police pointed to the only possibility of the murderer on him, but he did not give any explanation or excuse, whether it was a red-faced song or a song. White face, the only reply I got was "No comment", "No comment", "No comment"...
Seeing that the 24-hour interrogation time limit was about to end, the sheriff had no choice but to make a desperate move. He walked from behind the scenes to the front and broke through the doctor's last line of defense with empathy using his daughter as an example. Immediately afterwards, the doctor’s conversation box was opened irretrievably. He vented all the arguments that he had held for 23 hours, and eluted all suspicions, even the police detective behind the scenes. After confessing, all suspicions against him were dispelled. Was it a misjudgment by the police or a witty sophistry? The interrogation period is less than one hour away...
The end of one case is the beginning of the next. What's the secret behind the sister who voluntarily admitted to poisoning her husband? How did truck drivers involved in illegal immigration rescue 12 innocent names? The duel in the interrogation room continues...
The biggest highlight of "Interrogation Showdown" is naturally that it has done enough subtraction: in most crime suspense stories, the interrogation and reasoning are often the easiest dramas-it is not so much to watch the detective Polo slowly approach the suspects one by one. , The side-by-side reveals the character's character, what everyone loves more is definitely the showdown before the final mystery is revealed. Resolutely leaving the conflicts in the interrogation room not only eliminates the redundant layout and compressed story rhythm; it also borrows the secret room between the small rooms to create a sense of urgency from the inside to the outside for the story, and those who want to escape The suspect and the police, who wanted to advance deeper, wrestled together, turning the narrow chamber into an alternative cat-and-mouse game arena. Whether for justice or truth, they can only use their intelligence to catch each other.
At the same time, on both sides, the omission of the source and destination of the story does weaken the integrity of the story itself. Without the collection of evidence and the lack of detailed presentation, the story of suspense reasoning is like a castle in the sky, and it is not stable. The case that can be summarized in a few words is forced to the intellectual duel field by the actor after the audience can't tolerate more consideration. The reverse design behind the reasoning and the reveal of the mystery are naturally difficult to produce unexpected story impact, let alone the more important one. The drama is oppressive.
The sense of simplicity that the director deliberately created on the small screen does have it break the convention, but at the same time I think it is also limited by the capacity of the small screen. Similar works such as "Twelve Angry Men" are also through the room. The dialogue between "pull the cake on the ground, take the thief on the other side" reveals a constantly reversing puzzle. However, back to the small screen, the capacity of "Trial Versus" cannot give it enough time to spread the suspense. The screenwriter team can only quickly integrate the topic and decryption into the same link of the dialogue, in terms of the integrity of the story. The bizarreness is vacillating-I think maybe it is possible to not stick to the formalism itself, this subject would have made a story with more story tension.
Okay, so many regrettable parts do not mean how bad the show is in my mind. Although the play is not as good as it should be, the performance is really smooth. In fact, in film and television works that are more inclined to the stage drama style like "Interrogation Duel", the direct expressiveness of the actors will be much more important than the indirect storytelling during the viewing process. "Interrogation Showdown" got a vote of "Shuangxin of De and Art" to send British actors to participate in the story. For example, David Tennant, who had just become popular just because of "Good Omen", did it for us. Brings an evil performance by the villain in "Jessica Jones"; and because of Captain America's "Agent Carter", Hayley Atwell, who is more familiar to the audience, boldly jumped out of her own image and performed an appearance. Sensitive British stupid sister with a manic heart. The performances of these outstanding actors and the director's bold shot scheduling, at least in the process of watching the movie, will give the audience a lot of powerful impressions.
Although "Interrogation Showdown" confined the story to the interrogation room, the vision of the story went far beyond the frame. The three cases involved sexual crimes, domestic violence, and illegal immigration are the mainstream currently being discussed in the society. topic. It's just that the topic hasn't been finished, the ones that haven't been talked about, the ones that haven't been explained, it seems that they can only be left to the next chapter-"Interrogation Showdown: France" to be announced.
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