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The screenplay is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by American crime novelist William Landy.
The director of the show, Morten Tydum , was nominated for Best Director at the 87th Academy Awards for his film The Imitation Game .
The cast of the show is also very strong.
The male protagonist Chris Evans has starred in Captain America in the Marvel Universe and Fire Man in "Fantastic Four".
In the play, he subverts the previous image, appears as a father, and vividly interprets the father's love and the complex contradiction of personality. The heroine in the play, Michelle Dockery , who plays her mother, has won numerous acclaim for her role as the eldest lady in Downton Abbey. Jayden Martell , who plays his son in the play , is a child star with rich acting experience, and his face is both good and evil, making him suitable for different roles. In this drama, he plays a suspect in a major murder case. When he's gloomy, showing his gloomy, cold-blooded side, you'll think he's the murderer; when he's acting like an ordinary teenager, suddenly becoming the "criminal" and the focus of the media, as a little boy panicking When you help the weak and lost side, you will feel as if he is not lying, he is not the murderer.
It can be said that the superb performance of this young actor has greatly enhanced the foreshadowing and promotion of the plot of this suspense drama .
The story of the show revolves around ordinary middle-class families in a small town: father Andy Balbo, a district attorney; mother Lori, works in a child welfare agency; their son Jacob, a An ordinary junior high school student.
The family trusts each other, happy and peaceful.
However, a sudden murder broke the peace of the family's life and turned everyone's life upside down.
There was a murder in the town park, and the victim was Benjamin, a 14-year-old eighth-grader: he was stabbed three times and bled to death. Apart from half a fingerprint on the deceased's body and a pocket knife discarded in the woods, the police found no other useful clues. Andy went to the victim's home, expressed condolences and sympathy to the victim's parents, and even secretly rejoiced that it was not his son who was brutally killed . But a bolt from the blue suddenly struck, and his son Jacob was accused of murder and was suddenly taken away by the police. According to the police investigation, the fingerprints found on the deceased's body were Jacob's. Andy and his wife could not believe that Jacob, who had always been sensible and well-behaved in their eyes, was actually a murderer. Listening to Jacob's explanation, they were skeptical. Accompanying their son to grow up, Andy and his wife firmly believed that their son was a good, sensible and well-behaved boy.
But many signs seem to indicate that Jacob is the murderer:
After learning that his classmate was killed, Jacob acted indifferently and indifferently; when he was asked by a lawyer about the situation on the day of the incident, he faltered and said nothing; what was even more frightening was that Andy was in Jacob's house. In the cloth drawer, a wrapped knife was found, which appeared to be a murder weapon the police had yet to find.
Out of a father's instinct to protect his son, Andy found the knife and secretly threw it into the garbage truck.
When Andy confessed to his wife that his father had been imprisoned for killing children, and that he was not sure whether there was a gene for violence in his family's genes, his wife panicked. She recalled Jacob crying as a child and nearly hurting a classmate with a bowl in kindergarten. He couldn't help but wonder if Jacob had violent tendencies, and even took him for a brain examination and psychological diagnosis. However, with the intuition of prosecutors who have been involved in the investigation of the case for many years, Andy faintly felt that things were far from being as simple as they appeared. Among all the suspects investigated by the police is a former paedophile and child murderer who has been released from prison. In his mobile phone, there are also many photos of the victims of this case. But Andy never found strong evidence to prove that he was the murderer.
Should I trust my son? Should you trust your intuition? Should I defend the law as an unselfish prosecutor, or should I be a father protecting my family and son? Andy is deeply conflicted... the show is flipping every episode. As the plot progresses, the truth becomes more complex and confusing, making it difficult to guess the ending. As a suspense drama, it is really intriguing. After the plot, the complexity of human nature revealed is also worthy of thought and taste.
01. Some people only see what they want to see, and only believe what they want to believe.
Some people who eat melon don’t care about the truth, they only care about whether the incident is big enough to look good or not; some media don’t care about the truth, they only care about whether the news event is eye-catching, whether it can bring traffic, and whether it can be reported continuously. This can be regarded as a drawback in an information age, a traffic age, and a pan-entertainment age. Jacob was only taken to the police station as one of the suspects. Before there was strong evidence to prove that he committed this murder, he was judged by everyone as a "murderer". Classmates made outrageous comments on social media, parents were kept away from friends and colleagues, garage doors were painted with murderers, and the media scrambled to dig and report on the lives of "teenage murderers." There are even book writers who pretend to want to help Jacob's mother, pretending to be her friend, just to dig out more news material. Jacob's lawyer, before Jacob was brought to court, said something meaningful to Jacob's parents: "When you appear in front of the media, you should not have any expressions, if the media and the public see you Crying, I will report that you are pretending to gain sympathy, and if I see you resisting the interview, I will report that you have no remorse." I remembered a movie "Search" by Chen Kaige many years ago. In any case of response and explanation, the media and the public will consider them to be morally corrupt people who will not give up their seats to the elderly. Being slandered as a junior. Under the spotlight of the media, he became a running dog that everyone shouted and beat. He was abused and harassed for no reason by the unknowing people, and he was overwhelmed and committed suicide by jumping off the building. People say it is terrifying. I hope everyone will not easily make arbitrary judgments on an incident, and will not become a booster of cyber violence. The wise does not buy rumours. 02 It is difficult for us to recognize ourselves, let alone fully understand others
It took Andy half his life to become a well-respected prosecutor; it took him a long time to forget his childhood and his identity as the son of a murderer. But he was haunted by a terrible nightmare, and he always remembered his father's hideous smile in prison. I have always been afraid that my father's and grandpa's violent genes will be passed on to me. When he shows his own selfishness and his dark side, he also doubts who he really is. Andy and his wife have always been very loving. But his wife would never have imagined that Andy confessed his family history to himself only when his son had an accident. She thought that she and her son had everything to talk about and knew everything about his son. But I didn't know that my son was bullied at school, and that my son was alone and had few friends. The son played online killing games with netizens he didn't know... Andy's wife, for a time, didn't know who she should believe and what she should believe. In psychology, there is an interesting theory. It is said that there are four conditions of "I know" , "He knows" , "I don't know" and "He doesn't know" about some of our own situations . After two or two combinations, there are four kinds of results: a. I know he knows; b. I know he doesn't; c. I don't know he knows; d. I don't know he doesn't
Usually, what we show in our interpersonal interactions is the "I know and others know" part. For example, everyone knows that a person is lively and cheerful, and he also knows his label. But we don't show all of us in front of everyone. In our life and work, we will deliberately or unintentionally hide some characteristics, which are clear to ourselves, but not understood by outsiders. Of course there is also the "I don't know" part, and sometimes we don't know we have certain strengths or weaknesses. I don't know the real face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain, but others can see it clearly. The last part is the "I don't know he doesn't know" part, everyone has potential, or a side hidden deep inside. We do not know these things ourselves, and we have never exposed them to outsiders, nor are they known to the public. Human nature is complex. Understanding the complexity of human nature allows us to better accept ourselves and embrace the diversity and complexity of different people. 03 Right and wrong are always relative. In the play, Andy has been struggling between justice and rules, as well as his instincts as a father. Lawrence Kohlberg, an American child development psychologist, made a famous case of moral dilemma - Heinz stealing drugs. According to this, people's different moral judgment development levels can be judged. A woman was dying of cancer, and doctors believed that only a new drug developed by a pharmacist in the city could cure her. The cost of preparing the drug was 200 yuan, but the selling price was 2,000 yuan; the sick woman's husband, Heinz, borrowed money from everywhere, but in the end he only managed to scrape together 1,000 yuan. Heinz begged the pharmacist, if his wife was dying, could sell him the medicine cheaper or allow him to take credit. Not only did the pharmacist not agree, but he also said, "I developed this drug just to make money."
Heinz had no choice but to use the night to pry open the pharmacist's warehouse door and steal the medicine.
In this fictional case, many dilemmas of right and wrong are raised and debated.
For example, should Heinz steal the medicine? Was Heinz, as a husband, responsible or obligated to steal the medicine? Is it important that people do everything they can to save another person's life? Is it morally wrong for Heinz to steal the drug? Looking back at the dilemma in the story, what should Heinz do most responsibly? The problem of judging right and wrong is not uncommon in life and in jurisprudence. It is difficult to see the whole picture of things, and there are many different angles to see things. It is difficult to be absolutely objective and fair in judging a thing. It is believed that with the development of human society, laws and institutions will develop. Our legal system and moral cognition system will also develop in a more objective, comprehensive, humanized, differentiated and targeted direction. All the mysteries have yet to be solved, all the truths have yet to be revealed, let us look forward to the next episode.
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