Based on true story. This adds some points to the film for me, both real and dramatic. And the logic of the story based on real events will not have a big wrong place.
The profiling of the profession of profiler is professional, not as a label used to attract attention.
The actors are quite satisfied, and Ted's performance impresses me the most: to show a person with high IQ, full of anger and despair towards the world, conceited and inferior, and full of powerlessness towards himself, the best performance is "acceptable". Pushing too hard will take the character out of the way.
Ftiz is from a small town and has been a "graffiti patrolman" for ten years. He passed the night school exam to obtain a profiler license. It is speculated that his origin gives him an invisible sense of inferiority; in the first episode, his wife held a profiler exam celebration for him. His silence shows that he is someone who is not good at and doesn't like being in a crowd. After intervening in the UNABOMBER case, he continued to analyze the letters sent by Ted under the pressure of his boss's opposition. After studying Ted's letters and articles for a long time, he slowly uncovered Ted's character and personality. , The idea of living in isolation is backlash. He was obsessed, thinking day and night about Ted's letters. He led the initial three-person team. After the newsstand operation failed, he was indifferent to his new work and his family after returning home, and eventually lost his family. He could even travel across most of the United States to The California linguistics professor's family only analyzed Ted's letters for her. He simply devoted all his energy to get Ted to understand Ted, but he also lost his family, friends, and agreed with Ted's anti-industrial thinking. After Ted was arrested and brought to justice, he had no real partner to celebrate with. He called his professor and his family and couldn't share his joy, and his language analysis proposition was also named by others without authorization. After that he became like Ted, living alone in the forest.
I thought Ted as UNABOMBER could have been saved. Since he was a child, he was very smart and had no true friends. Maybe in his era and medical environment, he could not change, but after he made an improvised bomb for the first time in high school and blew the face of a friend who "betrayed him", the family and medical aspects Should have stepped in. On the one hand, the tragic experience at Harvard was cruel and inhuman, on the other hand, his distorted "self-esteem" made him choose to be abused to prove that he "has a strong will". But on the other hand, this experiment was voluntary. Even if it was an invitation from Ted's respected and favorite professor, he intuitively felt that there was something wrong with the experiment, and he should stay away from this experiment and the teacher. Even if the family does not understand and complains to the school with no result, they should try their best to save themselves for their own life and spiritual safety. But he still persisted for three years, and with his high IQ, he became more extreme and withdrawn. Returning to his hometown and being dumped by the girl he likes made him completely hate the world and hide in the forest. Maybe for those who are withdrawn, too smart and out of place, and difficult to open their hearts to, the blow of disrespect and betrayal is far more severe than the average person, but in any case, because of the departure of good friends and favorite girls Taking revenge on society is too glassy. Choose a person because of loneliness, because a person becomes more and more withdrawn, and in such a negative cycle, the negative thoughts in the heart are put more and more, and Ted, who was originally eager for friendship, became Ted as UNABOMBER. Lying on the floor of the wooden house, he asked himself, "How did it become like this?" If he had shared his emotions and thoughts with others, Ted alone would have been able to laugh with his wife and children.
Ted's court appearance was the biggest shock to me. I don't approve of harshly labeling Ted a "mentally ill", he's acting weird because he doesn't have the same code of conduct as most people. It would be a pity and a tragedy if his thoughts, his articles published with bomb threats, were despised, ridiculed, and submerged because of this label. In the end, he chose to plead guilty and did not agree to join a psychiatrist on the jury. I think it is the same as the practice of insisting on his innocence even if the world framed himself as a murderer and never exchanging a guilty plea for a reduced sentence. You're not saving my life. You are saving my body by destroying my life's work. He will never sacrifice the innocence of his own mind for a reduced sentence.
I foolishly thought that Ted, as UNABOMBER, was undoubtedly unforgivable, but looking back at his life, we could see that he could have been saved, and his thoughts had merit.
PS: Ted asked Fitz what Fitz left the world. Fitz said it was his family, his children. But as Fitz who has left the family, is this really what he gave to the world? What Ted has given the world cannot be ignored, one is his heinous crime, and the other is the thought he will defend to the death.
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