So **SPOILER ALERT** First, the following is about and mostly about the finale.
In fact, watching the whole drama in one go is not in my plan, it's just that "Missing" is really good. The plot and temperament are very similar to "Murder" and "Small Town Doubt", but they are richer and more fascinating than both of them.
Because "Missing" is not just a simple search for suspects, the biggest suspense in front of the audience has always been the safety of a little boy named Ollie who has been missing for 8 years. Is this cute little boy still alive in this world as the hero believes? A huge question mark was drawn in the minds of the audience from the very beginning. We don't know the truth until the very last moment of the ending.
Eight years later, the case finally made substantial progress, just because of Little Ollie's scarf. It turned out that the accident eight years ago also originated from this yellow scarf. The owner of the hotel went out to drink in the name of returning the scarf. He knocked Oli out of the car while driving under the influence of alcohol. In his panic, he mistakenly thought that Oli was dead. The boss did not call the police, but asked his brother mayor for help. So the mayor brought in a gangster killer to dispose of the body. But Ollie is still alive. Ollie saw the killer's face. The killer had to kill Ollie, clean up the scene, and remove the body.
anger. That was my first impression after watching the ending. Because the creator used a shot at the beginning - the "big-eared dad" painted on the glass window, creating the illusion that little Ollie is still alive for the audience. So when the audience entered the ward with infinite hope like Tony, the hero in the play, the cruel truth was instantly exchanged for a devastating blow.
Although the continuous flashbacks and crossovers in the past eight years, as well as the misleading methods, are all testing the psychological endurance of the audience, although there are still many details and loopholes, they are not enough to hinder the evaluation of "Missing" as a high-quality drama. The vulgar themes are shaped in an extremely realistic manner. Police do their best to handle cases, journalists dig up stories, and politicians keep their positions. Everyone does their job. In particular, we also saw that Julien, a suave, could coerce the mayor for reopening the case; when the mayor learned that Ollie was not killed, his first reaction was to ask the killer if he had taken him to the hospital; the "scavenger" was greedy He charged a huge opening fee, and it was also the "big-eared dad" that he deliberately left little Ollie to paint on the wall. My favorite in the show is Julien who is calm and wise, but I don't hate the mayor that much either. Suffering from illness is the boss's retribution, killers are just tools of the underworld, and even pedophiles have a tragic childhood. Therefore, the world that is purely distinguished by good and bad does not exist in this drama. The society we see is as complicated as reality. Everyone is unscrupulous because of their own situation and self-interest, but because wrong choices often lead to inability to The consequences of saving. The most representative scene in the whole play is undoubtedly the words that old police detective Julien, who violated professional ethics and stole the blood shirt (evidence) from the cement, told Tony tearfully: I personally sent my daughter to prison, thinking that Only then can she quit her drug addiction and survive. But I was wrong. In prison, she met more and more horrible criminals...I betrayed her. I can't help but ask myself, how on earth can justice be done? What's the point of putting you in jail now? Besides, from the day your son disappeared, you have been in prison.
Emily finally remarried, and Julien also fulfilled a wish. When everyone's life continued to move forward, there was still only Tony who still refused to accept the cruel truth. Live to see people, to die to see corpses, can Oli be determined to be dead just by the boss's one-sided words? But where is the body? Did Ollie get shipped to Russia alive? Unfortunately the answer is no. It's just that Tony lives with the belief that these questions are contrary to the facts, so in the end we finally know that the "big-eared dad" drawn with snow on the glass window that we saw earlier is actually from Tony's hand.
Originally a happy journey for a family of three, it drove into a nightmare that could not be escaped. Tony, who had the opportunity to stand in front of the exit, once again chose to stay in the nightmare and suffer rather than wake up and face reality. With his own obsession, he continued the life of little Ollie, and finally went to the brink of mental breakdown.
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