I really don't know Killing for Company if I hadn't watched "Dance". After a simple search on the Internet, this biography of a necrophilic murderer was quite successful. It was on the bestseller list when it was first published, and has been republished continuously since then. When "Dance" was filmed, author Brian Masters was hired by the crew to be a consultant. And one of the characters on the show is the writer, and the actor is Jason Watkins. The publisher of Killing for Company also understands it very well. It has pushed the 2020 edition, and it seems that there will be another wave of sales.
The show was not bad. The main creator does not blindly engage in fast-paced, heavy taste and big scenes. There was not a drop of blood in the whole drama, and the filming was slow and warm, which still made people feel cold from head to toe. This is a crime drama that the British are very good at, and I admit that I like it very much. I originally came to watch this show to practice listening, but David Tennant, who plays Danse, has a Scottish accent, and I couldn't understand when he said his lines. But I didn't change the pit, because I saw it and really wanted to watch it.
After reading it, I checked the information at random, and thought of some questions, and then it was a little unfair. To put it simply, I feel wronged for cop Peter and bored for writer Brian.
In the play, the murderer Danse is the first male, the police officer Peter who is investigating him is the second male, and the writer Brian who wrote his biography is the third male. Peter's concern is, how many more people did Danse kill? How do we find out everything? Can you give him a solid sentence? What Brian is concerned about is, who is Danse? What has he been through? What is the underlying reason for his crime?
Brian and Peter both try to get to know Danse, but they approach him in completely different ways, often reacting very differently to the same thing.
Such as Danse's concern for pet dogs. After spending some time in prison, he started asking frequently how his old dog was doing. Peter's response was, who cares about your dog or cat, have you explained your case clearly? Brian relented over this question. He asked someone to inquire about the situation, and when he learned that the dog was dead, he was extremely worried and didn't know how to notify Danse for a while.
Like Danse's "Crazy". When he was just arrested and brought to justice, Dan Si was very cooperative, answering any questions he had, and even put on an appearance of begging for death. Approaching court, he began to deny his guilt again, trying to prove that he had a mental problem. Peter immediately judged that this was his excusing strategy, and Brian was caught in a tangle. When Danse kills and destroys corpses, he acts with a plan and a purpose, but he also talks to the corpse, watches TV with the corpse, and lives with the corpse as a partner, which is too much like something done by a mental patient.
Who is Danse? Why did he kill? Peter and Brian have their own answers, Peter's answer can be said in a sentence, and Brian wrote a book about it. You could say that Peter's answer was too simple, but his judgment was factual. Brian's refined and civilized answer may have gone completely wrong.
Peter looked like a rude man, and he was intent on convicting Danse, but he didn't seem to care about small animals. But don't forget that of all, Peter is the most stressed and responsible. Danse said he killed fifteen people, it's not a number, it's fifteen lives. First, some cases are so old that no body can be found, and secondly, Dan Si often takes action as soon as he knows the deceased. He himself can't remember the name of each victim and where they are from. The police picked up the wreckage everywhere according to his words, and sometimes found it, but they could not correspond to the identity of the deceased.
Halfway through the work, it's time to talk - it's almost done, just close it when you see it. Peter asked, what about the nameless ghosts? What about those young people who can't see the dead or the dead? The leader replied: Don't always stare at that point, the pattern, pay attention to the pattern.
That's what I said, but when the program started, there were relatives and friends of the deceased to provide new clues, and it was confirmed. At this time, the leaders will not come forward to explain why there is no information on the deceased of your child's father in the public indictment. Peter has to bear such a big pot.
It's not that he wants to betray Peter, but he just wants to explain how deep Danse's crimes are, how destructive he is, and how cunning and hypocritical this person is. Peter has the most intuitive feeling. Moreover, a person who directly solves the problem has been busy for so long. If his judgment on this incident is not counted, then I don’t think anyone deserves to talk about judgment.
Brian is highly educated and Sven. He said he just wanted to document Danse's life experiences objectively and let readers judge for themselves. This means that Brian can neither cleanse Danse nor flog him, he can only write the truth. In reality, however, the Killing for Company that has been published contains a lot of analysis and explanation. Brian started paddling from Danse's ancestor, paddling all the way to the courtroom.
A friend who has read this book said that the author writes very seriously, but the analysis is very difficult. In fact, Dan Si is a pervert. Cultural people often talk about human nature, but there are exceptions. Very few people are inhuman. If you have to understand him, you don't know if you are embarrassing yourself or embarrassing yourself.
I think this is right. I never thought that getting to know a criminal is equal to sympathizing with him and apologizing for him. The responsibility of the society does not mean that the individual is not responsible. It's two different things.
Besides, Dan Si is not some kind of perverted cabbage. It's not so much that he lacks social care, but that he takes advantage of the bad environment. Danse was a civil servant and had a good life. At that time, the British society was turbulent, the unemployment rate was extremely high, and many young people were wandering the streets at a loss. Danse is looking for targets among these young people, bringing people home in the name of making friends, entertaining them with good wine and food, inviting them to spend the night together, and then strangling them to death while they are asleep.
There are also people Tidence witnessed the death of his grandfather when he was a child, and his experience of lovelorn. Yes, these are all sad things, but there are many people who have similar experiences. Do they all want to kill people? Oh yes, there are people who have moved out of his gay identity. At that time, the stigma of the gay community was more serious than it is now. This is indeed a social problem, but it is even more disgusting to see what he has done, because the victimization Almost all of them are gay.
What impressed me was that, in order to hammer Danse's crime to death, Peter gritted his lips and found a little shou who escaped from the tiger's mouth to testify. Because he was almost killed, this Xiaoshou already had a serious psychological shadow, and after his appearance in court, his queer identity was ruthlessly attacked by the defense. Looking at Dan Si's indifferent expression at the time, I was thinking that this scene was completely within his expectations, he didn't care, and was even complacent.
Regarding Danse, there are still many details in the play, and you can easily see that this person is extremely cold, extremely arrogant, and extremely hypocritical. The real Danse should be such a person, but he is better disguised and more human-like.
In the play, Danse points to Brian's writing like a brainless party A, and any writer with professional pride would not maintain a personal relationship with such a person. This should be an exaggeration, Brian himself said that Danse never made him feel the slightest unease. Bryan also maintained a ten-year relationship with Danes after Killing for Company was published.
Later, he compared Danse to another killer on the BBC program, and Danse was very annoyed after knowing that, and took the initiative to break up with him... I kind of want to ask Brian what he thinks about this.
The court ultimately sentenced Dance to life in prison, where he died in 2018. In the same year, Peter left the world with regret. At that time, the search for the victim ended in a hurry. Only less than half of the fifteen dead were confirmed. This was a concern that Peter could not let go of all his life. Among the three, only Brian is still alive, the old man is in his eighties, and he doesn't know whether to write or not. However, judging from the direction of his later career, writing about crime has become a feature of Brian. And his best-selling masterpiece is still Killing for Company.
Of course, even if I think he's boring like this, I have to admit that Brian has his senses. Although it is difficult, his analysis is still carried out around the real material, unlike some people who make up a set of stories and tell them all over the place. This may be the boundary of this kind of thing. People always tend to find reasons for what happened, and the person who gave it to find reasons, and preferably the kind that they like to hear. Sometimes people lock themselves in their imaginations and avoid the truth. What the writers have to do about this is a big topic, but we all at least know what not to do - don't incite people, don't make people think the illusion is the truth.
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