As a result, I was lying in bed thinking about the plot over and over, and I couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
Speaking of it, I am embarrassed, but I suffered from insomnia because of an American drama, and it was the second time I watched it. I rarely watch an American drama the second time, even if it is an American drama that I was obsessed with the first time, such as "Lost", I watched it for six full years, once every day I did not listen to the class with my friends and only talked about the plot, but When I wanted to revisit it, I found that I couldn't stand it anymore. However, when I watched the first season of FireWire for the second time, I doubted whether I had actually watched it before.
I think, in fact, I didn't understand it the first time. In fact, for those who only read it once, I wonder if you really understand it. For the whole season, this drama only talked about one case, and this case has not yet been completed. From the amount of it, only half of the case can be counted, but it is this half of the case. This group of policemen put together is like Grabbed a vine exposed outside the fence and pulled out the entire garden.
When I watched this drama for the first time, I paid more attention to the story of police and drug dealers, because when I watched this drama, I thought it was a police drama. How about a group of American policemen and black drug dealers? The story of fighting wits and courage, I even feel that the police in this show are far behind the American police in my imagination. The method of investigation is rather slow, the equipment used is quite old, and the work budget is very tight, even the police. His personal image is also very unsatisfactory.
However, when I watched it for the second time after many years, I was once again shocked by the reality, cruelty, sharpness, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of this show. Now, I have stepped out of campus and entered society. When I have a realistic reference, I look back and watch this American drama. What I have gained is not the same as when I was still in the ivory tower of the university. I remember when I saw it. At the end of the season, when Jimmy took a boat out to sea, I thought it was very funny, and I felt ridiculous about Jimmy's bad luck. But now when I look at it again, my heart feels like being stabbed. I have seen many familiar figures on Jimmy. The kind of empathy, if you haven’t been in the society before, it’s hard to have it. of.
This drama is the most detailed description I have ever seen. Sometimes there is an earth-shattering story behind the content of a few minutes or the characters who appeared twice. The iceberg only reveals a corner and leaves it for the audience to understand. And these icebergs are not singly made to highlight the screenwriter’s brilliance. They exist in this story, are interrelated, and even happen inevitable. The complexity of these stories is more complicated than the operation of drug gangs. The play was just passing by lightly, but the really caring audience was already shocked by this deliberate calmness. What's even more amazing is that some of the characters in the play are ambiguous. They gently lifted the cover of the unspoken rules, and immediately closed them again.
In the first season, members of the operation team occasionally intercepted a vehicle that appeared to be a drug transaction while monitoring drugs. They did not know that this was the driver and assistant of Senator Clay Davis. There was no drugs in the vehicle but more than 20,000 cash. When the officers of the operation team planned to seize the money, the police chief of the internal affairs department, who was called the "angel of death" by the police, came to check on the situation, and then the deputy chief called Superintendent Daniel to the office to threaten him. Under the circumstances, not only the money was not seized, but also an apology to others. Although nothing is stated clearly in the play, everyone knows that this is a "political donation" given to the senator by drug dealers for the work and election of the senator. The action team made a mistake and crashed into it. A black hole. This is the tip of the iceberg. It is impossible for the story behind the "black gold politics" and official corruption to be written in this drama, but the screenwriters did write it in. This is where this drama is higher than other dramas, and it is also our country. The reason why TV series can't catch up no matter how hard they try. This seems to be an insignificant and completely legal interception, but it has endless troubles. Later, Jimmy's loyalty was not hesitated, and Police Superintendent Daniel's career was not promoted but was assigned to the Physical Evidence Department. In this episode, there are two most exciting lines.
After Superintendent Daniel suffered a dumb loss in the deputy bureau, facing Jimmy’s righteous questioning, he said: "Do you think I will be fine as long as I perform my duties? You will be fine? The chain of command! This is what I learned from the deputy bureau today. Learned!" Then when he went home to chat with his wife, he said even more brilliantly: "You track drugs, you can open a drug case; as soon as you track money, you can't find North." Money is the most critical issue. When the police are handling a case, once a large amount of money is involved, they will often involve people who shouldn’t be involved. If the police do not handle it properly, they may shove how big a basket will be. "This is an open secret." As a small policeman, some investigations should not be too deep. This is a rule to keep in mind. This rule even appeared in the Chinese TV series "Detective Di Renjie". Someone reminded Di Renjie that the murder case was solved. Just fine, silver? Don't check it!
If you are watching this drama for the first time, please pay attention to these details, these details will bring you endless fun and harvest. Remember, this drama is not just about police and bandits, it is about society.
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