This American drama is without a doubt the best drama on my annual list. The quality of each episode is like a movie, and the American people and other American dramas are updated once a week, and occasionally there is a winter break. Although it is not as enjoyable as my seven or eight episodes a day, but if it is such an excellent work, wait for a while. Why not. I made an exception to write a long review for a TV drama, and I always felt a little indebted if I didn’t write anything. It's like reading a good book and always wanting to share with the same readers.
Let's talk about the title first, what is "Ice Blood Storm", and what does this season have to do with the previous season.
The common features of the two seasons include: snow-covered environment background; brutal and violent gangsters (killers), super powerful killers; small and powerless but full of justice police; a series of chaotic (CHAOS) stories; innocent involvement Among them, there are surprisingly lucky civilians; loyalty and betrayal, the factions of the warring parties are constantly changing; characters with distinct personalities; tight and tense plots; violent aesthetics, dark humor. The plot develops from the singularity to the explosive chaos, criss-crossing it like a Sisyphus reincarnation. However, in the end, justice triumphs over evil, and the world returns to the icy silence.
In the first season, the theme of this season's story "Sioux Falls Massacre" has been explained. The first season's protagonist, Molly Solverson's father, Lou Solverson, is this season ( Season 2) of the police protagonist.
Other than that, there is no connection between the two seasons.
-this is a true story. -
After investigation, this is just a word game played by the director. The entire story, like the first season, is fictionalized by the writers.
-A pseudonym is used out of respect for the survivors; out of respect for the deceased, no other aspects of the story have been changed. -
This is also just a continuation of the word game played by the director. The whole story has many interlocking, progressive and parallel sub-stories, and it is almost impossible to completely restore these sub-stories, most of which have no survivors. It is precisely because of artistic creation that screenwriters and directors can fabricate stories so delicately and ingeniously.
Overall, the story is relatively simple. The Kansas gang covets the family business of local gangster Gerhardt, intending to buy it. The two sides disagreed on the purchase price, and Kansas gangsters attempted violent mergers. At the juncture of the gang feud, the little guy Peggy accidentally injured Rye, the third son of the Gerhardt family, in a traffic accident. For agnostic reasons, Peggy and her husband (professional) Butcher Matt Damon) Ed kills Rye and wipes out the loot. The plot unfolds from this, the Gerhardt family searches for the butcher who killed Rey; the Gerhardt family fights with the Kansas gang; the police protect the butcher and his wife; the Gerhardt family is divided; the Indians betray the Gerhardt family; The Gerhardt family fights with the police; the Kansas gangs reap the profits; the Indians seek revenge against the Kansas gangs (end).
The most commendable thing about this play is that the characters are sharp and angular, and flesh and blood.
Basically, the entangled characters in the play can be divided into four camps: the Gerhardt family, the Kansas gangster, the police and the butcher couple. Finally, the Gerhardt family split into an independent fifth camp: the Indians.
Member of the Gerhardt family.
1. The patriarch, Otto, who built and maintained Gerhardt's family empire, was strong and unyielding. As his wife told Milligan, the Kansas gang coordinator, if Otto was in charge, He'll blow your head off when you ask. Otto unfortunately suffered a stroke before the gang fight, and his wife, Floyd, took over the family affairs.
2. Mother Freud. After Otto had a stroke, Floyd obediently fell on Otto when he slept. This side shows that Floyd has been attached to Otto for a long time, but as the minutes of the Kansas gangster meeting pointed out, Floyd is by no means easy. The weak woman who got it done, on the contrary, Floyd was very tough, and she bravely led the Gerhardt family's war against the Kansas gangsters.
3. The eldest son, Dodd, has been in the arena with Otto since he was a child. He inherited Otto's violent and brutal side, and he tends to solve problems with violence. Dodd cut off the ears of dissident forces in the garage, refused to negotiate with the Kansas gangsters, advocated direct war, and even picked quarrels and provoked trouble during Floyd's talks with the Kansas gangsters, beating the Kansas gangsters violently, and interfering with the peace negotiations. Dodd also has a tendency towards machismo, not only disobeying his mother Freud's leadership, but also because of this machismo his daughter Simone also forged a grudge against him.
4. The second son, Bear, is stable and solid, and is more resourceful than Dodd. However, this role always feels a little bit owed. Violence is insufficient; resourcefulness is also insufficient. Bell supported the family development policy formulated by Freud, negotiated peace with Kansas, and exhausted peaceful means to maintain the family empire; eliminated the family's renegade Simon; forced his son Charlie to enter the university instead of directly inheriting the family's gang business. In this way, Bell is an outstanding and mediocre defender.
5. The youngest son, Rye, is a typical piece of crap. Under the impetus of his two brothers, Liy determined to stand up and threatened the old woman (the judge) in the canteen. Unexpectedly, Liy shot and killed the old woman without being sprayed with the judge's pesticide. The killing was on the rise, and Lie killed a few innocent bystanders. When the saucer starts, Rey is fascinated, and Peggy (the little character appears) hits Rey with his car. The butchers ended Rey's tragic and useless life at home, and Rey's flesh was sublimated into the dinner plates of countless Minnesota families through the sublimation of the meat grinder.
6. The eldest granddaughter, Simone, longs for female independence, but has been discriminated against and restrained by her father Dodd for a long time at home. Rebellious like this, it is natural and reasonable to enter the enemy camp.
7. The eldest grandson, Charlie, has a wild dream of a western hero in his heart. Unfortunately, his right hand is disabled, and his nature is not suitable for a violent industry. The so-called text cannot measure words, and martial arts cannot defend oneself. After realizing this, Charlie resolutely decided to abandon martial arts and follow Wen. However, the first five years in prison.
8. Indians (Dent), the first master of the Gerhardt family. When the Kansas gangster, Kitchen, was invincible, the Indians were single-handedly able to defeat both. The Indians also had outstanding performances during their service in the U.S. military, having won three Purple Hearts. During the Vietnam War, if the U.S. military encountered any insurmountable military obstacle, "send the Indians." The Indians are basically unbreakable by force. In the whole play, the Indians only miss twice, and both times are from the same person: Peggy. The first time was Peggy's scissors, and the second time was Peggy's oil; the Indians also have super-high criminal investigation skills. Through careful reasoning and analysis of the crime scene, he found Liy's murderer and traced it all the way to the butcher and his wife. The lakeside villa where he hides; the Indian is loyal to the master Dodd, but his inner racial consciousness has never been extinguished. He's not a dog, a killing machine with no self-awareness, and one day he'll get tired of it. Later, he finally broke out. Thoughtful Indians carefully planned a gun battle between the Gerhardt family and the police, which completely wiped out the Gerhardt family. The Indians in this season correspond to Malvo in the first season, and they are both extremely tough characters.
Kansas gangsters.
1. Milligan and Kitchen are double shackles. Black supervisor Milligan and his two thugs. The two thugs don't have a single line on the show, a stark contrast to Milligan's eloquent, scriptural references. Milligan was the coordinator of the Kansas gang's dispatch to Minnesota to negotiate a merger with the Gerhardt family, and represented the Kansas gang in the play. Milligan's ineffective handling of mergers and acquisitions in the early stage once aroused dissatisfaction at the headquarters. Fortunately, Milligan assessed the situation and devised a strategy later, stealing the fruits of the internal struggle of the Gerhardt family. It also earned him a separate office with a typewriter at the company's headquarters in Kansas City.
little people.
1. Peggy, the beauty and hairdresser of the barber shop. Born in a museum, died of neurosis. Dream self-realization, improve spiritual realm, and cultivate personal potential. While hard at the barbershop (and stealing toilet paper), subscribe to a plethora of brainwashing magazines. The sublimation of the reading realm caused Peggy to occasionally behave incomprehensible to ordinary people. For example, after hitting Lie, she did not call the police, but hid him in the cellar.
2. Butcher (Ed) Ed, a typical sturdy honest man, strict wives. Edison grew up in the small town where the story took place. His dreams were not as lofty as Peggy's, but more practical and reliable. Ed stared at the cattle and sheep on the ranch on the oil painting on the wall in the living room, fantasized about his American dream, spent $500 on the owner's butcher's shop, opened more branches, made more money, and gave birth to many little Ed.
3. Karl, Sonny, etc., kind and simple ordinary people.
policemen.
Including the old Sophosson from the previous season, the old Sofsson's father-in-law Hank and the comrades of the police who died heroically in Fargo City and Dakota in the north and south. They are the incarnation of justice, responsible for protecting the little people and restoring the truth, but their power is slightly insignificant in the early stages of the story.
Black humor
personally prefers the role of Milligan, capable of both writing and martial arts, good eloquence and a sense of joy. One of the scenes that made me laugh was Milligan and Ji Qing Shuang Sha threatening the owner of the type shop. Milligan, who was eloquent, did not forget to add notes to the killer next to him: "I love this guy."
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old lady judge decisively took out the insecticide , to deliver a precise and powerful blow to Lie.
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drive big trucks to bury disobedient small businessmen alive in concrete.
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Charlie took the initiative to ask his uncle Dodd to follow the usual practice of the gangster family in the movie, convincing Dodd that the killing of the butcher must come from members of the Gerhardt family. In the butcher's shop, Charlie met the butcher's daughter who likes to read and chatted with Camus. Ed came out of the back room with the meat, and the atmosphere was suddenly tense. The camera cuts slightly, and Charlie cowardly gets into the assistant's car with a bag of meat.
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Charlie goes to jail and asks the police that he needs a defense lawyer, and Lou finds the only lawyer in town, the drunk Carl. Carl bluffs and speaks righteously at the police station to defend the rights of criminal suspects. Before he finished speaking, Bell led the crowd to rob the police station, and Carl was ordered to become a negotiator for making peace with the robbers.
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In the cabin, Dodd disobeyed the control. Peggy took a knife and stabbed Dodd twice in the chest instead of an electric rod; Ed could see the flying saucer, Peggy ran over and chased him away, saying It's just a flying saucer.
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After Milligan "ascended the throne", he gave a combination of favor and power. In Gerhardt's kitchen, he ordered the cook not to cook German food again, implemented benevolent governance (sent a car to the old woman), and then went on a killing spree in the living room.
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After eliminating the Gerhardt family, Milligan was not welcomed by the Kansas gangsters, but an office with a typewriter.
The lens language and
lens switching are simple and smooth; the flexible use of multiple sets of lenses to appear in parallel makes the picture full of three-dimensionality; the contrast is strong, such as the bright red blood on the corpse against the white snow, the sharp meat grinder grinding out the minced meat of Lie, and so on.
I watched the scene where Milligan kills the "problem solvers" sent to Kansas headquarters at the hotel three times. First, Milligan's action is too fast, and second, these "problem solvers" are too bluffed in front. The scene is similar to last season when Malvo killed several friends in the hotel elevator in front of Lester.
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