Maybe because the show speaks German, or because I'm not familiar with the overall style of German directors, I feel that the rhythm of the show is a little different. After about three episodes, what the film is talking about gradually surfaced.
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_ Developed by Gereon Rath, an agent from Cologne to Berlin. As a detective drama, there are three cases going on at the same time. The first was Gereon's dad, who was a politician for him, to destroy the videotape his dad accidentally left behind while playing SM. The tapes were controlled by a local gang in Berlin and later used to extort politicians. After Gereon got the film, of course he watched it himself before destroying it. Then he was very shocked to find that his father was still playing such a serious thing.
The second and third cases revolve around the same train. After the First World War, a group of German officers were dissatisfied with the Weimar Republic's weak internal and external methods, and secretly used the freight train of the steel tycoon Nyssen's family to smuggle arms from the Soviet Union, preparing to rebel and overthrow the democratic government. This time, they brought a train of chemical weapons from the Soviet Union, but they were detained by the Berlin police with the help of Gereon and Charlotte Ritter.
And another group of Russian revolutionary groups in Germany, Red Fortress, happened to be secretly adding a carriage to that train to transport gold to Istanbul to overthrow Stalin's Bolshevik regime. Don't ask me why Istanbul, I don't get it as much as the characters do. As a result, the revolutionaries were betrayed by a singer, Svetlana Sorokina, and tragically exterminated. Only the leader, Alexej Kardakov, escaped. He went to the local gang and said that the train had gold, and the helpers had a share. As a result, the gang, the army, and Sister Svetlana are all robbing the train. The scene was chaotic. Everyone can't figure out why the other is here.
The form of three lines of progress is indeed quite ambitious, and it can whet the appetite of suspense drama lovers. However, this drama is still in the third line and depicts the small stories of many characters in the drama, so at the beginning of the show, I didn't know what happened, and I felt that the director was a little bit more than enough. At the same time, such a structure results in relatively less effort being allocated to each line. Therefore, for the audience of detective dramas, the detective level of this drama is actually not very high. Gereon's line of sweeping porn is basically solved by beating up punks. As for the mystery of Russian gold, Gereon went to Svetlana, but he didn't say anything, Svetlana did everything. In contrast, the story of the German army's mutiny has more ink. After all, the first two lines are more about the fate of individuals, while the army's betrayal is about the direction of the times and the country, and there is more room to explain the playwright's views. The short stories of various characters interspersed in the middle, except for the hero and heroine, other individuals are short and concise descriptions. Although the story is wonderful, it always makes me feel a little scattered. But if my reading of Babylon is correct, it should be a show about the rise and fall of a city, not just a lone hero. From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the practice of having a little ink on all living beings.
This is where my impression of the main line of the plot comes from. When it comes to the characters in the play, what impresses me most is not the iron-faced male protagonist or his partner who is both an enemy and a friend, but the little girl Charlotte. In today's domestic dramas, all kinds of poor and poor women find that the ultimate redemption in life is to marry a good man, and the ultimate failure in life is nothing more than marrying the wrong man. Charlotte is really very different by comparison. Is she having a hard time? Looking at her dirty, naked family and working day and night life, I don't need the tears of self-pity from the female mainstream, and I know that she is living a very hard life. However, did she cry and grab the ground? Did she feel that she was lowly and didn't deserve it? They still danced casually every night, they could call three boys at the same time, they still took time to learn how to practice medicine, and they still fought hard to become the first female police officer in Berlin. I was really happy when I saw her get a police badge. If the equality of a society is equality of opportunity, she really is the embodiment of such thinking. Poor little prostitutes can still live in a world full of men and housewives, so they should hold their heads up and pursue the life and career they want. If it were a domestic drama, it is estimated that a mother or a mama would slap him and say, "Bitch, you don't deserve it." The shadows of Babylon are indeed ugly, but at least this city still gives the rats in the sewers a chance to do it there. a beam of light.
The title is too hard to think about, let’s make do with it…
PS: Thank you for your advice. It turns out that the reason for transporting gold to Istanbul was to help the Soviet-Russian opposition party Trotsky in exile in Turkey to defeat Stalin.
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