DAVID SIMON's Confession?

3 stars is ok, according to David Simon's usual level of evaluation. His own level is there, and his "okay" has topped others.

1 did not read the original.

2 Although any film and television work is collective wisdom, I tend to put the control and leading direction of the project on the judgment of David Simon alone.

With the help of GK's experience, every adaptation of David Simon is to fully consider the attributes of TV as a medium to select content. Although there is no comparison with the original, it is not obvious and not rigorous. Now, let's compare his previous works GK with the Wire and write down his feelings.

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In reality, David Simon is a person who is very keen on commenting on politics. He does not deny that he has a thorough understanding of issues, but it is speculated that it is the atmosphere of public opinion in the past few years, and Trump is a scumbag. Very, very, heavy, and this preaching function is almost all placed on the hero Herman, which makes people dislike it.

Loved episodes 5 and 6. I don't like the previous episodes, mainly because, compared with the Wire/according to his usual level, this show is too slow to heat up, and it even feels like water injection or trickery.

The rhythm isn't right.

(GK has the original author in the creative team, and TPAA has also had contact with the original author. According to his experience and skills, the death of the original author should have no effect on him.

And based on the original work, it is very avoidable to fill the time with water. )

I don't know how this problem of slow and weak development of the plot came about? ? According to intuitive feeling,

1 For example, in the first four episodes of Rabbi, he dragged his tone and pulled the confused Aunt Evenlynn to stand for Lin Bai to support him. It wasn't until episode 5 that the vice president explicitly called back that he wanted to get more money for the Jews to get more wages to go to the remote provinces, and we found out that he may really believe the stupid things he said, and it was out of a need for more power. But he trusted Lin Bai and lost his reputation in the community. He ended up reading the Trial in his old age, seemingly obsessed with being a victim of complicated politics.

2 Otherwise, it resonated too much with his personal feelings, which led him to spend a lot of pen and ink to describe things in the Jewish community. Or the content of the original work was too rich, he picked it up, and the rhythm of the pen was completely scattered.

3 Even the characters are flattened. Sandy's character is especially annoying throughout. His love for the pilot Lin Bai was highlighted, and he got closer and closer to Aunt Evelynn in the later period, and his relationship with his cousin Alvin completely disappeared at the beginning. This kind of dissociation broke out completely in the fifth episode. Bess's highlight moment: deleted his son's slap. But how did Sandy's previous relationship with his family lead him to have the seeds of this disagreement? Not written at all. Because the younger son, Phillip, has always maintained a high degree of consistency with his parents during these storms. In civic quality education, political education is basically completed in family education. A very active activist like Herman, who has an eldest son who disagrees with him, is worth writing about. And this gap makes it feel like the show is eager to tell its own thoughts rather than the characters' stories.

In the Wire, we know that McNulty's character is dictated by his character, which makes him reluctant to let go of Baltimore's mess, and he will fight to the end, whatever the price. Different people in GK have their own reasons for understanding this war and how to identify with their own soldiers. What about Herman? He identified himself as an American and wanted to stay in America and stick to what was right for him. Let's not talk about what happened when he "admitted defeat" at the end of episode 6 and finally wanted to go to Canada, and why he was so annoying, I haven't figured it out yet. Is it his long-winded criticism, his passionate refutation of other people's viewpoints, or his reluctance to forgive others when the audience knows that "bad guys" are "bad guys"? So, David Simon made the Herman character be the pesky wolves? People who are keenly aware of the danger before the real crisis breaks out, always make people feel that they are making a big deal, worrying about the world, fantasizing about the enemy, pretending to be lofty, self-righteous and preaching and annoying? Episode 5 and Episode 6 really changed his outlook on him, because he was beaten and still insisted. He did not leave the United States, quit his job as a porter, and persevered. He took the family to the Winchell opportunity. Apart from words, he also did things. Both of these couples are clear-headed people, Bess is of course a lot more restrained, and Herman, who has a big mouth, is really easy to be upset.

4 plus a little cross-cultural + cross-generation requires enough information to contextualize the specific details and stories in the play, the first three episodes are really very unfriendly.

However, there is still the character of David Simon. No matter how liberal he is, David Simon should essentially think that if the experience is different, it is almost impossible for anyone to reach a consensus (about the meaning, I don't want to understand). Therefore, his characters never have the moment of the Virgin Mary, and there is no moment of sudden epiphany. Some of them are "what a painful realization" after being beaten by life and still stand on their own position. Therefore, there is no reunion of sisters, no reconciliation between uncles and nephews, and no soulmates. It is possible to clear up the past, but the difference is still different.

Bess refused her sister's request for help, firmly and repeatedly, without wavering.

She also carried the disaster that Phillip's unintentional actions brought to the Seldon mother and son.

In the battle between Alvin and Herman, who returned home, they each paid a lot in this turmoil, in completely different ways, and in the midst of the storm, it's really hard to calmly see each other's efforts and sacrifices. In addition to venting anger after the fight, the reconciliation seemed really reluctant.

The end of the burnt vote.

The final scene, the result of the vote unknown.

Like the Wire, everyone outside the show knows how the reality is. How to solve the matter of Lin Bai's manipulation was just carried over with a fluttering radio voice-over in the midst of the horrific scene of being beaten, smashed and looted in the Jewish community. No matter what the future is and what the outcome is, there are people with these hard bones. Always his foothold.

However, it seems that both the ire and GK have a balance that is missing in tpaa. It made me feel that TPAA was incompetent, the words were not finished, and Jiang Lang was exhausted. Herman is very loquacious, but he always talks about how people should be, how society should be, how ugly, how unfair, how narrow, and what he says is the same as the report on the radio in the show. But a lot of dialogues in the Wire and GK are the details of someone, the prejudice of someone is in it, they fight each other, let the audience know that the protagonist has this flaw, this person has this problem, but everything is very real, rich and interesting. But Herman wasn't funny, only, at the end he and his son fled home overnight from the Conservative State and had a grocery store breakfast of white bread, cheese and ham - abhor American breakfast fast food - and said - they're killing us, he's fresh of.

It seems that HBO is putting pressure on him. I sniffed it out from the casting ranking. It is purely imaginary: it is not ranked according to the severity of the scenes, or even the alphebetic order.