"True heroism is to see the truth of the world and love it."

Abagail 2022-10-20 00:57:19

Mcnulty: I gotta ask you. If everytime Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let hime in the game?

--Got to.This is America,man.

A slow-paced, absurd dialogue scene that truly reflects American society opened the first episode of the first season of "FireWire". After a season, I have almost adapted to this slow rhythm-the longer the rhythm, the stronger the answer to the truth/reason/a certain question. The language has been lingering around for several times, just waiting for a fatal blow from the core.

A court scene of a witness withdrawing a confession. Succinctly explained the important characters throughout the entire play, the Barsdale brothers, Stringer and Detective Mcnulty.

The plot of the arrest of small drug dealers brought out the other three members of the task force in the future, a capable and capable black female policewoman and two triumphantly useless police officers. When the judge asked who was investigating the Barsdale case, M said nobody, really.

Judge: Then why you care?

M paused, and smiled contemptuously, who said I did? A detective image that not only follows the crowd, knows the situation, but is still eager for justice.

---Millenium been and gone and we still fucking around with Smith-Corona (that tattered typewriter)

---We need to get them computers hookep up. They promised to train us a year ago.

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---It's the chain-of-command, the shit always rolls downhill.

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---Deputy likes dots.

The police jokes in the office show the inefficiency, prevarication, bureaucracy and lifelessness within the police station. Meaningful dialogues are all over the play, hidden in the details of daily life, and cannot be recorded one by one.

The acquitted Barsdale cousin and accomplices got out of the car and walked to the blue fluorescent food store sign of New York Fried Chicken. Two opposing black men stood on the dark streets of Baltimore, talking about street rule. \don't talk in the car's dialogue, I knew I had settled this play.

The Barsdale Group is powerful, cautious, and difficult to track down without a case. Everyone in the police station only wants to work with less wages. They are afraid to avoid the unfamiliar street corpse case that increases the workload. They run the train and despise paperwork only. Pseudo-heroic, incompetent policemen who want to fight on the streets, layers of bureaucratic suppression, the Barsdale case that attracted the attention of judges due to the intentional or unintentional leaks of M, and the leader's rage due to the big case that fell from the sky-the first episode through a multi-line, fragmented plot Established a contradiction between the police station and the drug cartel. There are no exciting fights, no righteous words, no positive manifestations of crime and blood, and some are social beings in which everyone (including criminals) is trying to make a living under ordinary life, with dark and dirty city streets and gloomy images The styles complement each other, and under the elegant and humorous tone of the opening film, the truth in despair is slowly revealed.

Replaying the first episode, M’s colleague joked that M would end up in boat in the final bet. The reality was integrated in the last one. The task force succeeded, but M, who really fought on the front line, was still punished and exiled for offending the leader—just as in reality. The countless endings are the same. But the attitude to this kind of real-world logic shown in the play is not sign, not cry, but laugh, make fun, live with, which is almost graceful despair.

The policeman, who was unwilling to handle the murder, killed a mouse with a police gun at home, and only hit it with the second shot. The two frustrated people were sitting on the cover of the broken car, drinking beer, laughing at this absurd funny thing as an appetizer in the field of railroad tracks, and drowning in the night with the foam of beer. M jumped on the railroad tracks and peeed, facing the upcoming train. The dazzling train lights shone on M's face. His companion looked at him nervously, and said drunkly that I was going to take this case seriously-project The group opens the prologue. In another shot, Barsdale's cousin, whose conscience is still young and immature, saw the witness who had identified him run across the street. He walked out of the crowd in a daze, leaving behind the sound of arguments and police sirens. An overhead shot from the streets of Baltimore From the beginning of the city statue to his slow back, the soothing ending song rises, and the first episode ends like this. This is really not the opening of a typical heroic passion story.

This is an American drama that cannot be doubled or skipped.

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The Wire quotes

  • Det. William Moreland: Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-ass names.

    Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Man, lay off the Greeks. They invented civilization.

    Det. William Moreland: Yeah? Ass-fucking, too.

  • Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.

    Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'.