There should be no American drama that can compare to it. I'm not talking about "Game of Thrones", but "FireWire".
If the translation of THE WIRE is more true, it can be turned into a situation of eavesdropping, but the ambition of the two screenwriters is not only the police and the robbers, but with a sense of restraint, they use Ukiyo-e techniques to describe the drug dealers and the police system, the life of the dock workers and The rise and fall of trade unions, the predicament of schools in poverty-stricken areas, the media and society, among which the big visible players are politics and political manipulators. It can be said that this is a detailed depiction of Baltimore, "The Golden Lotus", and it is also a microcosm of the United States.
There are too many film reviews that can be written, I only start with the lingering feeling of compassion that is shrouded in the plot of the five seasons. I have heard that such an evaluation of compassion is an important indicator for determining the height of the work, and I am deeply convinced. Throughout all the episodes, as the first protagonist, the policemen have never had a real victory. Each character has a strong sense of fatalism, which can be said to be too lost.
On the first level, I can see the fate of many characters, and I have a deep understanding of the meaning of the fool smashing the beetle in Uncle Martin's writings. The game between the various forces is like Lannister or the masters of other families. There is no meaning at all. Like a fool to smash a beetle;
At a deeper level, the fate of all people is a beetle, teased by the disorder of fate. For example, Olma, who is engaged in drug robbery, has become a nightmare for every drug dealer. He is really willing to help the poor. He was chased by the most vicious drug dealers on the sixth floor, but he was killed by a child in the grocery store. Another example is the "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith on the bedside of drug dealer Sterling. His dream is to be a real businessman, but he was deceived by politicians in his investment and died in the real estate he invested in;
To go deeper, the butterfly effect of each event from the other affects each other. A witness who practiced shooting in his yard accidentally killed a witness who should be protected, but accidentally knocked down the mayor and knocked the little finger of the dark horse Democratic politician (really It's the actor who played the little finger in got) to give him the position of mayor. A case fabricated by the police caused an extremely powerful shock wave among the media electing politicians, but the police knew nothing about it. ；
Deeper and deeper, all the characters are reincarnation, the rise and fall of the drug dealer gangs on the streets of Baltimore, the Baltimore gang has changed for three generations in the five seasons, the big men can't catch it, the small soldiers can't finish it. The school serves as a hotbed of gangs and sends waves of minors into the street corners as the new force of each generation of gangs. Even the protagonist of the police is reincarnation, and the conspirators and profiters are always successful.
I accidentally wrote so much, not because of hypocritical and over-interpretation, but because this play is as great as Shakespeare's work, and it is worthy of careful interpretation.
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