Compared with similar themes, the play has a good angle: the struggle between the FBI and the CIA allows terrorists to take the opportunity to rise. But other than that, the whole show was a failure. Where it fails: The key storyline is understated, and the crap details are cumbersome.
Why is the fight between the CIA and the FBI so fierce? What is the underlying reason for the discord? This is the key plot of the story and the most worthy of further investigation, but in the play, it only gives a simple explanation that cannot be more simple: the CIA and the FBI do not understand each other's way of doing things, and only use a few simple dialogues for quarrels. The method is briefly explained, and there is no further in-depth discussion.
In the performance of the history of the rise of al Qaeda, it is not satisfactory. First of all, the portrayal of bin Laden continues the old-fashioned characteristics of previous film and television works: acting as a symbol, only shouting a few words before and after major events and showing up a few times. With the revelation of the archives in recent years, viewers are more willing to see a complex flesh-and-blood bin Laden than just a silhouette on audio and video. Secondly, in the narration of several key time points, the escape is too fast, there is a large time gap to fill, and there are few characters who appear in many appearances but leave an impression, which makes the history of the rise of the base ambiguous. The best way of narrating is that the three story lines of the FBI, CIA and terrorists go hand in hand, with clear context, independent and intersecting narrative modes.
Above, you can argue that the mini-series is limited in time and the plot cannot be unfolded. But at the same time wasting a lot of time piling up useless and boring details of life is incomprehensible. Specifically: FBI executives are heavily in debt to support several secret mistresses, FBI female agents must eat ham and cheese croissants before working, FBI male agents finally have a pair of Italian leather shoes, and the romance of a young Muslim agent (see comments). Saying that Su Fan participated in the production of the show, it is not surprising to add drama to himself), the CIA was shocked by the strange master-apprentice love and the equally strange smile of the CIA stationmaster...
A large number of such plain water plots are piled up in the play, which is abrupt and inexplicable. It not only disrupts the rhythm of the narrative, but also dilutes the context of the story.
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