Of course, the public influence of "True Detective" cannot be compared with that of "Shuangfeng Town", but judging from the feedback from fans and critics, the reputation of this play is staggering, and it was even beaten to 9.4 on the authoritative IMDb website. High score. HBO has been very handy in the creation of miniseries in recent years, and "True Detective" was created along this line of thinking, except for the joint escort of Woody Harrison and Oscar Shinco actor Matthew McConaughey (they are both leading The lead actor is also the producer), HBO also boldly used newcomers, half of the young director of Japanese descent, Kerry Fukunaga's shot, successfully endowed the series with a strange aesthetic color-Fukunaga has directed the classic "Jane Eyre" movie Version, the classicist aesthetic taste and humanistic accomplishment are both, which also makes "True Detective" exudes a blurred and tangled atmosphere in the seemingly slow rhythm, and this atmosphere complements the suspense type of the drama. The long shots at the end of the four episodes have always been talked about by fans).
Many drama fans are discussing the "complete" storyline of "True Detective". The whole episode opened the main story with a murder case. Through the 2012 police investigation and the two detectives who handled the case, they recalled their story in 1995. After investigating the case, the double clues are intertwined, and the last case of the year and the "present tense" case are at one end. As an eight-episode miniseries, "True Detective" is full of various symbols, metaphors, signs and specious branch clues. Many places are not straightforward, which has also triggered a wave of "textualization" among fans.
To put it simply, "True Detective" reveals a horrible case of a series of crimes such as torture, sexual assault, and child abuse committed by a cult group over the years. The story takes place in Louisiana. It’s worth mentioning that Pizzolatto, the screenwriter of this play, grew up in Louisiana. In 2005, there was a horrific case of church sexual assault on girls. The organization in the cloak of the Christian Church is actually an out-and-out cult group. It is unknown how this real case influenced Pizzoolato’s creation of "True Detective", but in any case, the dark side of real life and the crime story in "True Detective" form a clever correspondence, which goes without saying. Metaphor.
An important cultural background of "True Detective" comes from the Santrianism and Voodoo beliefs circulating near Louisiana. Santrianism is a blend of Catholicism and Yoruba mythology from Africa (via blacks). , Has a complicated and tangled relationship with Voodoo, which is accompanied by witchcraft, zombies and other legends. The "True Detective" strongly suggests that groups that believe in this cult have committed heinous behaviors—many of them are not written in fact, but instead tell the audience that their behavior is heinous. Moreover, the cause of the cult has been in this area for a long time, and the two detectives have encountered a lot of pressure in their investigations (the local church and the police are also inextricably linked to the cult, and even set up a "Road to Light". The school provides sacrifices to children who are victims of cults). As the investigation deepened, the audience also found that similar cases had already existed. The exposure of some key exhibits also showed that the locals were deeply influenced by the Santria-Vudo cult. Some victims were even brainwashed by the cult and willingly made sacrifices to the evil god.
At the same time, the series also quoted a lot of allusions from American bizarre-horror literature. The ghost city "Kalksa" created by Ambrose Beers and the "Yellow Demon King" written by Robert Chambers have all become dramas. The important clue of the concentration, the so-called "Kalksa", is the place where the cult group held the evil ritual in the episode, and it is also the place where the two detectives at the end of the episode finally cut the criminals; and the "Yellow Robe Devil" has been investigating many times In the course of the case (the original text from Chambers’s novel was copied in the notebook of a certain victim), it should have been a character like the "leader" of the cult group. Unfortunately, this cult has lasted for many years, and many of the culprits of the year have died. In general, the drama depicts the two major criminal families Tuttle Childress and Ledoux. The Ledoux family was earlier. Was turned out by two detectives, but the real murderer was hidden in the Tuttle Childress family: the terrifying "green-eared" scar-faced man William Childris was exactly the two detectives who had been struggling. The real culprit of the trace. Frankly speaking, William Childress himself was also a victim of a cult. When he was a child, he was abused by his father (scarred to become a scar face), and he experienced the crazy rituals of the cult (he was still a child at the time). Incest adultery made William himself mentally unhealthy-he grew up and became a crazy pedophile Low correlation, judging from the incest history of the Tuttle Childress family and William’s performance, it is not unreasonable to say that he is a mental patient who cannot be held legally responsible for his actions).
Ambrose Beers and Robert Chambers inherited Allan Poe and started Lovecraft’s "Cthulhu" myth, which has a key position in American mass horror culture. Pizzolatotto is the two The tribute of the predecessors also makes "True Detective" increasingly show the "Cthulhu"-style mystery. Especially for the detective Luster played by Matthew McConaughey, a man who has lost his wife and died, has always believed in a certain kind of nihilism that has no ultimate value. Pizzolatto even used his lines to let Raster directly say the mysterious things like "four-dimensional space" and "membrane theory" (quantum mechanics is metaphysics for most ordinary people), and Raster seems to be a Nietzscheist , He believes that "we can't remember (reincarnation) of our lives, and we can't change at all. This is the worst and most mysterious point of fate: you are stuck, you will walk into the same nightmare again and again." This is almost the same. A specific expression of Nietzsche's (adhering to Schopenhauer) pessimistic "eternal reincarnation" thought. In the Cthulhu mythology, the protagonist is often invaded by ancient evil forces and gradually falls into a state of madness. It has also been manifested in Raster. For example, when he broke into the altar of the "Kalksa" cult, he was caught Hypnotically emerges a mysterious cosmic starry sky pattern. And Luster's last confession is a vivid expression of his own mental journey: "There was a moment when I knew I was in a certain darkness...Everyone, the three of us, are slowly disappearing. I am. All you have to do is to let go...and then I let go...but I still, I can still feel her love, even stronger than before. Nothing, except that love, nothing ...And then I woke up." This passage is almost a true portrayal of an awakened person who was grabbed by the evil god Cruise and then reined in the cliff (it can also be understood as the believer of Luster who became another kind of "cult", but in I gradually came to my senses in the struggle against the cult that committed crimes in the play).
While investigating cult cases, "True Detective" gave a critical and realistic depiction of the lives of the middle and lower classes in Louisiana and other regions, and it was shrouded in a strong regional cultural color. As we all know, Louisiana, a state located in the southern United States, is part of the "Bible Zone." The conservative Christian faith in the area is strong and the people are fanatical about religion. Louisiana is also influenced by the African-Latin-Caribbean culture. The tradition of carnival carnivals (in the drama it is implied that cult groups organized a "Shameful Tuesday" carnival) and the significant influence of Santria-voodoo (not all Santria and voodoo are Cult). Geographically, Louisiana is again wild and swampy, objectively providing a hiding place for the cult family-in fact, the residences of the Ledoux and Childresses are in the jungle, and "Kalquesa" Altars and other places are also selected in the wilderness. In addition, Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged Louisiana in 2005, also provided a godsend for the cult. During the time when the government was struggling with disaster relief, certain areas of Louisiana were in a state of de facto anarchy, and the police had no time to take care of small scales. This criminal case almost gave the cult group a chance to revelry. Therefore, it was mentioned more than once in the episode. During Hurricane Katrina, many cults were left behind.
The series also strongly portrays the personal lives of the two detective protagonists. In a sense, Luster and Woody Harrison's Marty have formed two opposing outlooks on life. Luster believes in nihilism, is pessimistic and weary of the world, is keen to talk about metaphysics, and scorns religious beliefs; in the eyes of outsiders, Marty is a standard good father, good husband, and good policeman. Luster’s outlook on life is naturally related to his painful life experience (daughter passed away, and he worked as an undercover agent for a drug cartel for several years). He almost lived an ascetic life. After leaving the police, apart from doing odd jobs, he has been investigating. Clues to the series of murders. While Marty was living in her life, she suffered from unfaithfulness. He kept squeezing flowers and grass, and finally became a lonely family member. After Luster had a one-night relationship with Marty's ex-wife, the two finally turned back, but after many years, they finally released their suspicion and finally came to understand the case together.
The fight against a cult group is like a fight between light and darkness, and this process is also internalized in the life course of Luster and Marty. In this sense, these two detectives are out-and-out. "True" Tan, their struggle with criminals is also the battle between light and darkness between heaven and man.
(Published in the 11th issue of "Blog World" in 2014)
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