Mind Game is really David Fincher's favorite theme, whether it's "Fight Club", "Seven Deadly Sins", or the still popular "House of Cards", all of which are abnormal brain games for the protagonists. And this time "Good Will Hunter" also focuses on these unusual brains and behaviors, but this time the camera is slightly shifted, and Holden Ford is an outsider to explore the causes of serial killers. At that time, even even the The FBI doesn't even have the concept of a serial killer.
Under the influence of David, the whole series uses a surprisingly slow rhythm to unfold this mind game with many protagonists, which can be described as a breath of fresh air in an adrenaline-fueled crime drama. Based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside The FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by former FBI special agents John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Good Mind Hunter has a very strong and authentic script material to support, but it may also lack The ability to refactor a lot of material has led to a crash.
And we all know that's not going to happen with David Fincher, and the first season currently seems to have two lines crossing at the same time, complementing each other.
The suicide case at the beginning of the first episode is a very good aspect of the tone and theme of the whole play. It is very direct and pointed out that the FBI was helpless and ignored when the new MO continued to emerge. This leads to our first main line. Holden Ford, a former FBI negotiator who was exiled to become a theoretical lecturer, was very sensitive to seeing the emergence of a new direction of crime, and was obsessed with pursuing MO (Method of Operation in crime), which is constantly updated and iterative in theory. Translated as modus operandi in the play).
Considered impractical and useless at the time, Ford insisted he hoped to unearth a more generalized defense system by establishing contact and talking mechanisms with the numerous arrested murderers.
The second main line is the unsolved murders that appeared in each episode. In addition to supplementing the content of the first main line in the plot, in my opinion, the more important thing is that the director uses this line to continuously attract the audience. Keep chasing, after all, no one is chasing nearly an hour of conversation analysis every week for a theory that everyone knows at the end. But that doesn't mean these conversational analyses are boring, lengthy shots, instead it's (magically) the biggest highlight of the show.
Using Ed Kemper as the first official serial killer (although he didn't actually appear in the second episode) is really sensible, a serial killer who is chatty, desperate for attention, and even turns himself in to attract audiences. , the audience's interest has been raised in the first time.
Just three conversations between him and Ford/Tench are enough to hold up the entire second episode, full of drama, roundabouts, fun, and strategic adjustments to each encounter. Each of the wonderful dialogues written in the script, under the delicate interpretation of Jonathan Groff (played by Ford), Holt McCallany (played by Tench), and Cameron Britton (played by Ed Kemper), Definitely worth two brushes, three brushes, four brushes.
The first time Ford played alone, he was caught in Ed Kemper's mental game and completely unaware. As a normal person in front of a normal person and a perverted veteran, he adjusted himself to say what the other party wanted to hear about how to capture the opponent's expressions and movements. Kemper is not unskilled.
For the second time, with the intellectual blessing of Debbie, his girlfriend, a doctor of sociology, such as focusing on the content of the other party's speech, imitating the other party's small movements, and inadvertently guiding the problem back to the other party itself, it seems that Kemper has unearthed new information. point, but was Kemper unintentional or intentional? Ford still hasn't gotten a definitive answer.
For the third time, Ford introduced a third-party Tench for cross-interview. With the same questions and directions, Kemper made new and minor adjustments in response to Tench’s problems on the basis of keeping the foreword consistent. Sexually, a question mark has been placed on it.
Looking forward to seeing the follow-up conversations with other serial killers~~~
and the soundtrack for episode 2 also follows the "fun" tone perfectly, whether it's Psycho Killer from Talking Heads, or A Fifth on the opening road of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, injects a rather timely interest in either rock or classic.
Although I have only watched two episodes so far, I am looking forward to the remaining eight episodes~~~
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