One of the most recommended recent dramas——
" Please go home at dark ".
This time the protagonist is a bit special, a 9-year-old girl who is also a reporter .
Faced with a murder case that was covered up, when people chose to close their eyes, she was the only one who was silent and shouted:
It is terrible without knowing the truth .
At present, Apple TV+ has released ten episodes at once, and the second season has also been successfully booked. If the drama is short, you may wish to add it to the movie list~
01
A covered murder
Hilty is a little girl who dreams of becoming a reporter.
Since she can remember, she has been watching her father Matt 's figure, watching him dig for clues and interview reports at the scene of the crime.
With ears and eyes, she is very good at observing and feeling, and has infinite enthusiasm for reporting news.
He also founded a newspaper by himself, with one person serving as a reporter and editor, even if there are only 100 subscribers.
Until Matt was unemployed, in order to survive, the family had to move from New York to their hometown of Port Erie, a remote lakeside town.
This is a place so quiet that it is difficult for news to happen here.
However, there is a customary rule in the town: Please go home at night .
That's because of an old case more than 20 years ago in which a boy named Ricky disappeared after being kidnapped.
Although the murderer was later captured successfully, the residents stayed behind closed doors from now on.
Under the curtain of night, what flows is an outrageous peace.
People think that there is no story in the big slap, but Hilty discovered it was unusual when he arrived here.
The woman who sells second-hand goods at a stall along the street is clearly unattended, but she always stands there.
The man with the shovel didn't know whether he was digging or burying something.
She trusts and admires her father deeply.
However, when she pointed out these anomalies, her father said that life is more than just investigative news.
No one tried to understand her, and the eldest sister thought she was nosy and turned a blind eye to her in the new school.
Fortunately, Hildi is not a sensitive and fragile child. She has more important things to do than adapting to a new school.
For example, to meet the woman who sells second-hand goods.
During the conversation, she learned that the woman's name was Petunia Gillis , who had been her father's high school classmate.
Petunia entrusted her to give her father an old mountain bike, which seemed to evoke his father's memories.
What she said lingered in Hilty's mind: she thought Matt would never return to this town .
What happened here? Why did my father leave here?
The path to the truth is not open, but it never ends.
Late at night, Hildi heard the sound of police sirens nearby and hurried to the scene.
She saw the police walk into Ms. Petunia's apartment one after another. They claimed that Petunia accidentally fell to death while changing the light bulb. It was an accident.
The police explained patiently, but the tone was more like sending a child away.
Petunia was fine during the day, but suddenly died at night?
Hilty didn't believe this explanation.
She noticed the special shoe prints remaining on the soil, and the shed was also destroyed. Petunia's death may be more than accidental.
If the case is directly characterized, the truth will be hard to find.
From a sense of mission, she was determined to report this news.
But she did not expect that the article would cause such a big disturbance in the small town.
02
She wants to fight to the bottom with the truth
Hildi sent the article to the entire school with one click.
Almost everyone saw it overnight.
What followed was a quarrel with Matt.
He believed that she was too rash, and she was not sure if it was a murder to make the news public, and that Port Erie was not New York, and people would be frightened.
But Hildi has always insisted on his point of view and should not conceal the facts.
Matt had a headache for his daughter and couldn't help but roared:
Can't you be a normal child ?
Looking at his father's hideous face, Hilty felt that he was so unfamiliar for the first time, as if he had never known him.
My sister is crying, so heartbroken
On campus, students are also talking about her.
They treat her as a freak, troublesome spirit, and avoid her like an infectious disease.
The parents directly called the principal's office and asked the school to deal with this "black sheep".
At this time, the only person who was defending Hildi's dreams and rights was her mother, Brigitte.
She used to be a public defender and became a humble housewife in order to take care of her children.
She said that she would not allow anyone to prevent Hilty from fulfilling her dream:
" Although she is only 9 years old, she is far more enthusiastic about news than you and me ." " She is my child and no one knows her better than me ."
The truth is also true, Hilty is digging deeper into the truth.
Visiting the police station and looking through the case records, she really found a clue.
There used to be a family video recorder in the booth, but it disappeared from the case record.
At the same time, she also learned from the female police that there had been a disappearance in the town.
Boy Ricky was kidnapped and murdered, and the file was never released.
In the end, it was Petunia's brother Sam who was captured as a murderer .
There are no other clues to the case, but Hildi encountered fierce cyber violence because of the investigation of this news.
People commented under her article:
What garbage
Go home, loser;
The cute little girl doesn’t work as a reporter, just keep playing around;
Maybe Hilty killed her;
This is why girls should not be educated;
Who allowed this little girl to go online!
...
At lunchtime, she walked into the cafeteria with ridicule and strange eyes, and stood on the table to read the hurtful words.
Although she is small, she does not survive by submission and tears. At this time, the eldest sister also stood up and supported her.
Hilty said to the coward hiding behind the Internet:
I don't like secrets, nor do I like to pretend. Who do you say cares about the truth, I care!
Because if the truth doesn't matter anymore, then nothing matters .
The uplifting words drew everyone's applause, and some people suddenly went into trouble and threw food on them.
A scuffle broke out in the cafeteria.
The farce was shocking, but it gave Hildi a chance to get close to the truth.
She accidentally discovered that the principal's shoe prints were very similar to those in Petunia's yard.
It happened that the principal called her into the office, and she found the video recorder when no one was looking around.
Unexpectedly, it was the incident that happened more than 20 years ago.
On the night when the boy Ricky was kidnapped, the boy next to him was Hilty's father, 14-year-old Matt.
Ricky, Petunia, Sam, the principal, father...
What happened that year that the murder case was covered up?
She found in her graduation file that the principal and Ricky are close friends, perhaps she has always hated Penny brothers and sisters because of Ricky's rote.
She seriously suspected that the principal did not want Penny to reverse the case, so he stole the videotape and killed her.
But she needed more evidence, so she and two small partners quietly came to Petunia's house to investigate.
The light bulb is in good condition, so accidentally falling to death is a lie;
There are a lot of paracetamol and anesthetics in the medicine cabinet. If Petunia owns these, it only means that she has a drug hoarding addiction.
Because of the arrival of the policewoman, her investigation had to be interrupted.
But she has determined that the principal is most likely to be the murderer, and began to write follow-up reports, if not blocked by her father.
It turned out that Matt was indeed the person who witnessed the kidnapping case and Ricky's best friend.
He couldn't rescue Ricky back then, but he heard the murderer's voice, who was not Petunia's brother.
But everyone hopes that the murder case will be closed as soon as possible.
In the court, the 14-year-old Matt insisted on telling the truth, but no one paid any attention. Sam was still put in jail.
The residents of the town all cast their eyes on Matt, and even his father hates him.
This is why Matt never wants to go home again .
It is impossible for the principal to kill Petunia because they are best friends.
The video camera was actually entrusted by Petunia to the principal to give it to Matt.
She believed Matt could prove her brother's innocence.
Matt confessed his past to his daughter and apologized, but Hilty found the wrong person because he didn't tell all the facts.
Hilty also forgave him, and it's a big deal to overthrow everything, just investigating from the beginning.
She understood that her father was frustrated because of work, and he didn't want her to understand how terrible the world was.
But she is not just a child, she also has the mission and beliefs of a reporter, even if she encounters more severe storms, she will fight to the end.
At this time, an unexpected call made waves to Matt's house again, and it was Sam from the prison.
He claimed to provide a new clue, but only told:
Hilty.
03
She has extraordinary courage
"Please go home at dark" is definitely an uncharacteristic suspense drama.
On the one hand, it is the setting of the plot. The 9-year-old girl becomes a reporter and exposes the unsettled case of the old age.
It sounds like a gimmick, but the content does not deviate from the main line.
The first episode alone has revealed the clues, the indifferent atmosphere of the small town, Petunia’s death, cyber violence and campus bullying, and father’s past.
Although it contains a lot of content, it does not appear to be messy.
Because our little reporter Hilty has been unremittingly searching for the truth.
Even if people do not trust her, even if she is isolated and discriminated against, she has always maintained a spirit of questioning. Follow keen professional intuition to ask the truth.
Adults like to pretend to hide facts to save trouble, or fabricate lies to make people believe that their surroundings are safe.
But she knew it was just a fragile bubble.
So she decided to be the one who burst the bubble above the town .
It's just that she is still young, and she doesn't know how much it will cost to trace and accept the truth.
Matt was unemployed because he searched for the truth, because sometimes the truth is not pleasant or liked.
It is also because she is still young and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, so she has enough courage and enough time to go to death with this world.
She must find out the truth, as she said in her favorite movie Watergate:
" This matter is only about the First Amendment to the Constitution, media freedom and the future of the country. "
In the past, she only did it because of her dream, but gradually, she consciously assumed the mission of being a reporter.
Be the seeker and defender of truth.
Don't underestimate her because of her young age, it's no joke.
In the play, the child star Brooklyn Prince contributed a natural acting skill. When she talked about her dream, her eyes were firm and moving.
Sometimes she even feels that she is not a 10-year-old child at all (actress age), she is doing something that adults can't even hold on.
Excellent wit and fearless in the face of danger.
You know, Brooklyn began modeling at the age of 2, and made his first film appearance at the age of 7. It has only been 3 years since he entered the show business circle.
However, she has won the "Best Young Actress Award" from the Women's Film Critics Association Award for "Florida Paradise" for 17 years. She also directed and acted in her own film debut "Colors" last year.
Film critics say that she is a talented actor .
The same is true in "Dark Please Go Home". When she and the experienced Jim Sturgis play against each other, the two people are father and daughter who have a special connection with each other.
Just like natural partners, they share the same mission.
When he was frustrated, she would rather take his share and rush forward.
Jim Sturgis is also a particularly reassuring actor.
At the age of 38, he is no longer the big boy with a lovely smile. (Although the hair is still disheveled)
But his performance in the movie "One Day" was unforgettable for a long time, and his fairy love with Anne Hathaway burst into tears.
He has also acted in Hollywood productions such as "Another Polling Girl" and "Cloud Atlas", but for a long time, it seems to have disappeared.
It's not that he doesn't love acting, but he prefers to act the book he likes.
He once said, "I would rather risk failure than repeat myself. If it means never becoming famous, that's OK."
But this time, he did encounter a book that made everyone's eyes shine.
The Matt he played is a gentle and serious person who loves his family.
However, he concealed an old thing in his heart, which caused a huge disturbance, and he never mentioned it to anyone again.
Almost fateful, he returned to his hometown again and faced the death of his friend again.
The truth is still foggy.
Fortunately, there is also his most loyal comrade Hilty, his beloved family members, together!
A 9-year-old reporter exposes a bizarre and unresolved case: Who killed him/her?
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