The miniseries was five hours long and took me a month to watch. At first, I saw the recommendation of the poisonous tongue movie, and just after watching "The Room", I came to watch it with great interest. Generally speaking, it is a passing score. The portrayal of Ivy, the victim of the kidnapping case, is definitely much more realistic than that of "Room", but this reality is mainly from the more ample time in the TV series. As for "God's work," I think It's still far from it.
The director's ambition is obvious. It is definitely not a story about a brave girl who escapes from the devil's cave and has a loving family to help her rebuild her confidence to face life. In the first scene, the protagonist Ivy escapes from a house and calls the police. This seemingly panicked girl brings out a kidnapping case that has not been solved for thirteen years, and the next scene is the scene of her and her family embracing excitedly. However, as the investigation deepened, the suspicions on Ivy became more and more, until the kidnapping of another ten-year-old girl Phobe, leaving her with her family, the police officer who helped her, and her former lover. Crisis of Confidence.
The director wanted to reflect all kinds of human nature through the story of a girl who was locked in a basement for thirteen years and returned. Such as the rift between my parents, my mother's secret lover, the beauty between myself and my first boyfriend... My favorite part is still the setting of the protagonist Ivy, who is covered in scars and pale, obviously suffering a lot . But when the police's investigation got deeper and deeper, they discovered that she had been to the mall with the suspect and returned to the suspect when she had a chance to escape. In fact, this is not a shocking plot. Stockholm Syndrome is a stalk of a suspense drama that is about to rot. But the clever thing about this TV series is that it never directly mentioned the real reason why Ivy returned to the suspect. Just when all the viewers, like the police in the play, think that Ivy has been deceiving people, and may even be an accomplice, Ivy's second kidnapping takes place. The same suspects, the same methods, but the plot after this completely reproduces the life Ivy has lived for thirteen years. The suspect trained her like a puppy and was tied there obediently, she was "good girl;" they were supposed to be family, she was supposed to have a baby for him, and even forced her to believe "she loves him." Compared with rudely showing the victim's feelings for the suspect, the audience is placed in a higher position. We are onlookers and can only speculate on Ivy's true feelings for the suspect through imagination.
Therefore, the truth and delicacy is the show's respect for the victims of such a thirteen-year imprisonment. Ivy's misfit, sometimes green tea bitch, when she's back in the community is understandable after the suspects appear in the last two episodes. The director did not blindly elicit sympathy or tears from the audience, but truly showed a victim who had been brainwashed for thirteen years, and then resumed the process of establishing correct values after returning to society. It's very difficult, thirteen years is long enough to destroy a person, but Ivy's second escape symbolizes her victory, she finally got rid of the demon's control and lived a normal life again.
Compared with the Oscar movie "Room", this show is really telling a story about captivity and liberation. I always thought that if the movie "Room" was going to win for acting, it should be best actor for that little boy, not best actress. There is a clip in the film. After the mother and son were rescued, they were lying on a hospital bed. The phone rang and the mother picked it up naturally. This scene even stabbed me at the time, I thought it was not only unreal, it even showed a kind of arrogance of the director. How can a man who has been isolated from the world for seven years in the basement face the phone ringing so naturally. Maybe the director was just too anxious to present the theme of getting out of the room, but didn't pay enough attention to the details.
If you talk about Thirteen's shortcomings, I think it's also a matter of detail. The relationship between the characters set by the director is a little too complicated, and in the end, it feels a little overwhelmed. For example, the ambiguity between Ivy's mother and the principal of the middle school Ivy used to study did not help the plot in any way, it just shows that "everyone is guilty. "It's a bit redundant. In this way, the image of everyone in the whole play is too three-dimensional, which reduces the dramatic tension. Maybe the reality is just boring.
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