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Many years ago, when the board game "Three Kingdoms" was not popular, "Darkness, please close your eyes" was already a popular intellectual game, so when I saw "Darkness, please go home" I thought this drama and " "It's dark, please close your eyes" has a close relationship.
In fact, it is not. "Please come home at dark" is just a family drama full of suspense factors.
Just as the game "Dark, please close your eyes" needs to determine who is the killer, who is the police, and who is the innocent civilian, "Dark, please go home" also needs to solve the mystery of the good and the bad.
Washington State (Thank you Douyou for reminding), Port Erie.
When Hilty, who was only nine years old, said that there is no perfection and beauty in this world, with the unique background music of the suspense drama, I knew that someone was doing things, and it was not normal.
Sure enough, the family who had just moved to Dad Matt’s hometown in Port Erie saw the crowd looking for people with flashlights at night, and Hilty also noticed that someone was watching them.
Hilty is not an ordinary 9-year-old girl. She has inherited Matt's advantages and is full of curiosity and exploration in everything, so dad is a reporter, and she is a little reporter. She also founded her own newspaper "Magic Hours Chronicle", and this newspaper has also received more than 200 subscriptions.
The nature of being a small reporter keeps her vigilant all the time. Hildi, who has just arrived, secretly observes the new environment and the people and things in this environment. She couldn't bear her curiosity and went to visit Gillis, the woman at the sales fair. Through a conversation with Gillis, Hilty discovered a secret hidden in his father Matt, a secret about his past .
When he got home, Matt also jokingly said to Hildi that he hoped she could go home before dark. So what will happen to this place when it gets dark? In addition to these two places, the 10th episode of the complete works is also constantly creating suspense. The opening of the second episode is the grandfather Schell, who sharpens the knife in the dark; the children say word of mouth that there are cannibals in the woods; the grandfather Schell’s remarks from time to time that people start to kill again, so I want to escape; enthusiastic People tell Mom Brigitte that people ignore you not because of your daughter’s articles, but because of what your husband did when he was a child.
All this makes people full of doubts, it seems that all people have inextricably linked relationships with Matt. But what happened 31 years ago that made Matt so disgusted?
Soon the first case happened, and Gillis, whom Hilty had just visited, passed away. Even if everyone told Hilty it was just an accident. Hildi still thought it was a murder based on her judgment on the scene, so she reported the murder in her tabloid, which caused panic among the residents of the town and caused other students in the school to point her to her. .
Fortunately, Hilty soon formed her own detective team, Downey and Spoon, who were specifically responsible for interviewing and recording for her.
(Tucao off topic, Hilty is a strange freak. Her two little friends are black and Asian, which is really true...)
It all starts with the kidnapping of the sheriff's son Rich Fife many years ago. It turned out that 31 years ago, Dad Matt, Ricky, the policeman who monitored them Frank, and the principal Jin were good friends, but Ricky was kidnapped one day and never returned. In the court, Matt insisted on his own opinion and refused to obey everyone's will to accuse the innocent Sam as the murderer; and here, under the high pressure of his father, Frank identified Sam as the murderer who kidnapped Ricky. So Sam became the sinner that Wanfu pointed out, and Matt became the one who sheltered the bad guys.
All the people in the town did not understand him. So Matt had a very unhappy life in Port Erie. Once he reached adulthood, he chose to leave and restart his life in Brooklyn. It is precisely because of what Matt has done that people in Port Erie are ashamed of him. So when Matt's youngest daughter, Ginny, needed to find a nursery school, she was rejected because of her surname.
Thirty-one years have passed, and even though Matt has formed a family and has three lovely children, Matt has always been worried about Ricky’s disappearance, and he has always wanted to catch the real murderer.
With Hildi's insistence, the detective team discovered the truth about the death of Sam's sister Gillis, and began to uncover the truth of the year. Not only did they find the videotape, but also the "birdman" who provided the videotape.
Just as the audience rejoiced for the victory of Hildi. The plot took a turn for the worse, Hilty disappeared, and her "Detective Handbook", which she stayed for a while, fell on the side of the road casually. Coincidentally, this was the same moment when Sam escaped. People can't help but wonder, are all the foreshadowings wrong? Is Sam the bad guy? It also makes people worry about the fate of Hilty.
Fortunately, Sam is consistent, and Hilty did not believe the wrong person.
Sam just heard that there was no hope of being released from prison, and wanted to sit on the plane again and watch the sunrise.
The plot continues to advance, and the only truck that proves that Sam is not a prisoner is also destroyed by Frank's Sheriff's father. Everything seems to have entered a deadlock. But Hilty never gave up. She brought the detective team and her father to Ricky's house, and found a psychic who claimed to be able to talk to Ricky from thousands of video tapes.
Although knowing that the psychic is only a bluffing trick, Hilty "takes" the coat that Ricky was wearing when he was dying from the psychic. It was also through this coat that Matt found the DNA on the coat with the help of a former informant and locked down the real criminal.
It turns out that the real bad guys are Jin's mother, Matilda, who is alias Carlo, and her younger brother.
The story came to an abrupt end when the truck that really kidnapped Ricky was recovered from the bottom of the lake.
After this case, the family was reunited again. Brigitte regained his career as a lawyer and planned to defend Sam out of sympathy for the innocent Sam, and also wanted Matt to be truly relieved; Matt learned to be brave. Faced with all this, instead of choosing to escape; the eldest daughter also grew up and slowly learned to communicate with her parents; not to mention, Hilty won a big victory, and solved all the mysteries with perseverance and perseverance.
Of course, this play has its grooves. For example, if Schell refused to tell the password of the password box, he had to tell his son the password through the twists and turns of origami. After all, no one was chasing and killing Schell. Why did he have to use this method commonly used in detective suspense dramas? For example, as a child, he can obtain all the evidence and the truth unimpeded. Hilty is like Conan in Port Erie. Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko are the other two members of the detective team, Downey and Spoon. Played. Another example is that the election of the Port Erie Sheriff was reversed by a report in the Hilty tabloid. The Frank family was not re-elected. In reality, I don't believe it a hundred.
But beyond the slot point, the plot itself is still very attractive. As mentioned above, the suspense points set in each episode are very fascinating, and Hilty's acting skills are even more remarkable. The whole play actually tells a story that is so vulgar that it cannot be vulgar, nothing more than "bad guys are not bad guys, good guys are not good guys" , it is rare to attract the audience from the beginning to the end. "Dark, please go home" really did it. During the whole viewing process, you would doubt many people, such as Frank, the bad policeman, Ricky’s father, the mayor, and you would also doubt the decadent system of Port Erie, but You don't point your finger at Carlo, the gentle and kind librarian. How could it be Carlo, who is so kind and loving?
It seems to be unexpected and reasonable.
The casting of characters in the play is also very distinctive. The heroine Hilty plays a bit like the little wolf girl Daphne Keane, and is also the heroine of the just-concluded "Dark Matter Trilogy". After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, grandpa looks inexplicably like the elderly Tom Hanks.
And Zhu Haowei (Chinese), the director of the show, is probably a big fan of "Back to the Future" released in 1985. Sam is used many times in the play to pay tribute to "Back to the Future". In "Back to the Future", Dr. Brown invented a time machine, and Martin used electric current and acceleration to realize the time travel, returning to the time when he was not born 30 years ago. In "Dark Please Go Home", Sam also wants to imitate Martin and realize the time travel and get rid of the boring reality.
Of course, the whole drama also left a lot of suspense . For example, if Ricky was really not dead, why didn't his underage child choose to go home? Where did he go? What is the relationship between Ricky and his father? Why doesn't this so-called father who is worried about his children want to find out the truth? For another example, if Sam is not the murderer, then why has everyone stubbornly believed that he was the villain who killed the child for so many years? There is also the frequent mention of Miriam, the mother of the disappearing little girl. What is the direction of this case? This Miriam who almost caused the divorce of Hildi's parents is certainly more than just a background board. All these mysteries are all left to the second season to solve.
In addition to the storyline, the show has several themes , which can also be said to be several themes that Apple TV+ streaming has always implemented.
First, the issue of equal rights for men and women . From "Morning News" to "Dark Please Go Home", Apple has been doing well in feminist rights.
For example, the tabloid run by Hilty attracted the attention of the whole town. Principal Kim talked to Hilty’s mother, and Brigitte said that if it was a boy who did this, then he is now the president of the student council;
For another example, the male police officer laughed and laughed at the two girls' inability to solve the case. However, this case, which has affected all the residents of the town for more than 30 years, was finally solved by Hilty and the policewoman.
Second, the problem of campus bullying . As long as high school students are involved in American TV dramas, there will always be all kinds of bullying. Hilty and her sister Iz, who had just moved to Port Erie, were bullied in different forms at school, and this bullying intensified after Hilty’s tabloids received attention. It has changed from simple cyber violence to deliberate targeting in reality.
It's hard to imagine Izzy's situation when watching dramas. In fact, she really wants to blend in with everyone and become the most ordinary member of high school students. However, there is a sister who is born with a flashlight, who can always disrupt her plans.
I was also very surprised that Margaret Atwood, the original author of "The Handmaid's Tale", said that the best way to keep it secret is to pretend that there is no secret.
Third, the relationship between parents and children . There are two obvious parent-child relationships in the play. One group is Hildi’s parents who fully support and respect their children; the other group is parents represented by Frank’s father and Ricky’s father, in the name of being good for their children. Impose your own will on the child.
In the play, Hilty’s father and mother have always supported her as a reporter. Not only did she equip her with a computer and a video camera, she even applied to be the second author of Hilty’s newspaper.
In comparison, Ricky’s mayor’s father is much worse. Although he is in a high position, he is always used to imposing his own preferences on his children. Ricky can’t even decide the color of a small bicycle, let alone mention it. The screenwriter deliberately or unconsciously revealed the tragic situation of Ricky's frequent domestic violence. Frank's father is not much better. Intentionally or unconsciously accusing the ugly faces of those in power, for the sake of power, even the truth about the death of one's own son can be avoided; in order to gain public support, even one's own daughter can be slandered.
Fourth, the issue of ethnic minorities . Sam is treated like this in the play, except that as an adult, he likes to buy alcohol for children and shows a vague pedophile plot. There is another important reason. Because the Sam family are Indians and they are not purebred American whites, he is discriminated against and suspected of course.
Although the whole drama is not as high as "The Coquettish Lawyer", it is still okay to chat for entertainment during the famine.
Looking forward to the second season of "Darkness, Please Go Home" will complete all the bugs and reveal the deep truth about the Ricky incident.
It's also good to respond to the main theme: Please go home at night.
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