If the plot only focuses on "criminal psychology", it must be professional and boring. Of course, the major American TV stations that are unscrupulous for commercial goals will not make such low-level mistakes. In fact, this drama is not only good-looking, but also has a ideological connotation that is far from the detective crime dramas in the United States. It can be regarded as a good harvest of word-of-mouth and ratings.
The plot comes to America in the late 1970s, when criminal psychology was still in its infancy, and FBI officials still held to the old mentality of "if the crime didn't happen, it's our business". The protagonists in the play, the two FBI profilers and lecturers, secretly thought, "If we don't understand the minds of the lunatics, how can we be one step ahead of them?" Serial killers' growth environment, psychological characteristics, etc., to summarize their commonalities to help the FBI solve the case.
So, the two detectives brought in a female university professor, and the three formed a team. The two detectives went to major prisons in the United States to talk face-to-face with the killers, and the female professor was responsible for the analysis. To the surprise of the two detectives, their first chat partner in prison, Ed Campbell, seemed so friendly and ordinary that it was difficult to even connect him to the heinous crimes he had committed.
"Schoolgirl Killer" Ed Campbell is a 2.1-foot-tall, well-educated man with an IQ of 145. However, he killed his grandparents at the age of 15 and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment. After being discharged from the hospital at the age of 21, he killed many women and his own mother with extremely cruel means.
Seeing this, all the viewers have a question, what prompted this person to commit the crime?
It turned out that Ed Campbell grew up in a single-parent family, but his mother only treated him with contempt, disappointment and contempt, and was even humiliated by his mother many times during his growth. In the first season, the two agents interviewed a total of four serial killers, all of whom grew up in horrific circumstances and suffered severe family trauma as children.
Then, the conclusion is obvious: no one is born evil lunatic, crime has complex social factors, as a member of this society, each of us is responsible, and criminal psychology came into being.
The plot of the film is mainly driven by dialogue. The killer "visual stimulation" of American dramas that attracts audiences is not available in this drama. This tests the skill of the director and actors, and also tests the patience of the audience. American dramas are highly commercialized, but it does not mean "fast food", because its main audience is the American intellectuals and middle class, they need feelings and taste, and they need to think and aftertaste after watching a drama. If you also think that TV series has some other functions besides passing time, then "Mind Hunter" must be a must-see American TV series in 2017.
It is worth mentioning that the show is the first time that the well-known Hollywood director David Fincher has been directing a TV series (he previously served as the producer of "House of Cards"). He said in the interview: "Underneath the skin of these killers are pathetic human beings, raised in horrific environments. This is not an exaggeration of how much sympathy we should give them, it's just a simple fact...we I've seen so many, people are fascinated by them because we're not like them at all, they're unfathomable..."
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