With the IP of Black Dahlia and the team of Wonder Woman, has "I Am the Night" handed in a satisfactory answer?
In terms of creativity, you can score 90 points. From the perspective of a girl looking for her biological mother, peeling off the layers of fog to explore the truth of the Black Dahlia case undoubtedly adds a little freshness to the darkness and blood of the play. The warm interaction between her and the reporter also gave us viewers a chance to breathe. But one man and one woman, one long and one young, one who pursues the truth and one who saves oneself, has appeared in many film and television dramas in recent years, and it cannot be considered extremely novel.
From the plot, I just want to give 60 points. In the title, the girl's body is half in the shadows and half in the light, alluding to her half-black and half-white bloodline, while the two hands poking out of the darkness in the other scene have the implication of her seeking light and truth. The background of the times set by the drama is also closely related to this. The black affirmative movement is intensifying. How the heroine in the black and white vortex will accept herself should be a highlight of the drama. It is a pity that the screenwriter directly wrote her as the product of incest between her grandfather and mother, and had nothing to do with black people. This kind of setting seems to be more exciting, but in fact it wastes the background of the play. In addition, there are several unreasonable things: After the reporter killed the heroine's grandfather's helper, why was he so flustered that he didn't know how to dispose of the body, and needed the heroine's guidance? Since the helper brutally killed the boy next door who harassed the heroine, why did he spare the heroine's black boyfriend? Grandfather killed the heroine's adoptive mother on a single ride for thousands of miles, as meticulous as he was almost killed and fled in a hurry? And so on. As a suspense film, not being rigorous can be described as a taboo. Fortunately, the theme plot develops smoothly and naturally, and the overall situation is not messed up.
In terms of characterization, I want to score 80. The male protagonist is a veteran who participated in the Korean War and suffered from PTSD (btw, I was very stunned when I started to see the reporter's nightmare. The uncle of the volunteer army is the most lovely person, what is the male protagonist afraid of~ ah ha ha) After retiring from the army Became a promising journalist, but was framed and destitute enough to be a paparazzi, penniless, addicted to drugs, and a mess. He is not only afraid of his own bloody memories of the war, but also feels that he is too depraved and has no sense of accomplishment. He even had the idea of joining the army again when the investigation was not going well. He would rather return to the army full of fearful memories than Continue to do nothing. I am the night, and the male protagonist's current life is like the night, desperate and desperate.
The heroine is a small town girl, her mother is black, her classmates are black, and she is a white-skinned mulatto. Not satisfied with the status quo of life, she found that her biological mother was someone else, she decided to go to the big city to find the life she thought she should have, but unexpectedly, she was involved in a huge black mystery, and her outlook on life completely collapsed. Many comments say that the female lead is poor, she just stares at a pair of big eyes in confusion, and her IQ is sometimes offline. But isn't the mature appearance of Europeans and Americans misleading us? The heroine is a young girl. Before that, she had been living in a small town, and she had seen the world and received very limited education, especially her confusion about her identity, which kept her in a kind of chaos. It is a kind of natural instinct that allows her to protect herself in the chaos and seek the truth. After killing her grandfather's helper, she was calmer than the battle-hardened male protagonist. She handled everything well and settled down for the male protagonist. She seemed to have just woken up from a big dream and realized that her life was hanging by a thread just now, and she felt aggrieved. Cry out loud. From this perspective, confusion is the normal state of the heroine's current life, and she also needs to find light.
But no matter how high or low the above ratings are, it will not affect my love for this drama. The most important reason is that the hero and heroine reconcile with themselves.
The male protagonist worked hard in every possible way and suffered humiliation. After several lives and deaths, he did not become a star reporter again in the end. However, in the process of investigating the case, he went from his initial pursuit of making a comeback to a blockbuster to only seeking to punish evil and promote good at the expense of himself. The turning point was that he refused to hand over the heroine in exchange for fame and fortune. Especially when he heard that the heroine was controlled by the murderer of the black dahlia case, he was even willing to carry a crime he never committed, just to escape from the police station, rescue the heroine, kill the murderer and then hurry up. By the end of the story, he could no longer live in a big city, and could only live in anonymity. But when the camera turns to the male protagonist, he sits by the beach and looks at the people frolicking and playing, and finally a calm expression appears on his face. He finally stopped resenting his mediocrity, he has realized himself.
And the heroine also let go of the confusion and contradictions in her heart in the process. At the beginning of the story, she complained that her adoptive mother was rude, was dissatisfied with her current life, and was bent on finding her biological mother. She fantasized countless times how much her biological mother would long to see her and how much she would love her. But when she finally found her biological mother after going through hardships, the mother was quite indifferent to her, did not hug her, did not tell her thoughts, and even gave her other child the same name as the heroine instead of the heroine. Only then did the heroine realize that the black mother who raised her was the one who truly loved her, and she should cherish this love. This is the heroine's first reconciliation to herself. But with this reconciliation, the heroine encountered new problems. She turned out to be the product of incest between her mother and her grandfather. She was once again confused about her identity. Does this bring her unforgivable original sin? The heroine must have been thinking about this issue during her captivity. But at the last critical moment, she finally stood up bravely and used her wisdom to defeat her evil grandfather. She exposed her grandfather's hypocrisy, refuted her grandfather's crooked ways, and declared loudly that she was not the murderer's daughter, but the daughter of a black adoptive mother. She finally understood that the sin of her life was not her fault, and she could bravely choose the life she wanted.
Besides, here are a few things that I like:
1. The pictures of this play are of great artistic value. Whether it is a classical composition or a greenish tone, they all reflect the characteristics of the background era in which the story takes place, and have a strong mysterious color.
2. Some scenes in this play will be compared before and after. For example, when the heroine first went to her grandfather's house, she knocked on the door but no one came to open it. The shot of her looking into the house from the green fence door and the shot of her being detained by her grandfather and looking out from the same door formed the A good comparison, with the connotation of "besieged city".
3. In the end, the heroine did not kill her grandfather. This design may not be popular enough, but it can prevent the heroine from being contaminated with evil and sin at a young age. Moreover, as an adaptation of a real event, this is also more in line with the real situation.
All in all, a good show worth watching. recommend!
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