Today, let's talk about the American drama "The Outsider".
The film title The Outsider (2020), alias The Outsider (Taiwan).
HBO's new American series is based on the novel of the same name by horror novelist Stephen King.
After being adapted into an American TV series, there are a total of 10 episodes. The story takes place in a fictional town in Oklahoma, where an 11-year-old boy was raped, killed, and thrown into the wilderness.
The method of the case was cruel and the social impact was very fast. For a time, people paid attention to this case. The police were also Alexander, eager to solve the case, bring the murderer to justice, and give justice to the victim.
However, as the detection gradually deepened, the evidence in front of people's eyes was conclusive but contradictory, and the detection fell into a bottleneck for a while.
Can one person do things 70 miles apart at the same time? And left the exact same fingerprints, DNA, video and other irrefutable evidence, everyone disagrees.
The first few episodes of "The Outsider" are completely detective drama routines.
When a case occurs, the criminal police intervene, investigate clues, and collect evidence. Everything is a standard procedure. Create suspense and solve puzzles, the police prosecutor and the suspect's defender go back and forth to confront each other. Looking at the overwhelming evidence in front of them, the police, prosecutors and the audience all seemed to think they had found the real culprit.
But don't forget, the original author of this novel is Stephen King, a master of horror novels, who is best at describing all kinds of supernatural events. This seemingly simple murder was actually caused by supernatural forces, and the evidence that seemed to be a sure thing was actually a dark thunder.
If the audience watches "The Outsider" according to the standards of detective dramas such as "CSI", "True Detective" and "Murder", then after watching the first few episodes, they will definitely feel uncomfortable with the second half of the story.
"The Outsider" is not a realistic detective drama, but a mystery thriller drama with supernatural forces.
It is recommended that you adjust your expectations before watching, otherwise there will be some psychological gaps.
The narration of "The Outsider" is relatively simple and straightforward, there are no twists and turns, and there are no suspenseful links that require special attention.
Here are a few differences between the American TV version and the novel.
In the novel, Ralph Anderson's son Derek Anderson is not dead. Derek spends the entire novel at summer camp, and his return home takes place in the final pages of the novel.
The fight between Jack Hoskins and his dead mother is a self-inflicted addition to the show, not set in the novel. In order to strengthen the role conflict, the drama version adds some figurative gimmicks.
"An outsider konws an outsider." This is the most interesting line in the whole play, and it is also the core idea of the whole play.
I do not know the true face of Mount Lu, only because I am in this mountain. People at the center of supernatural events don't think about things from a supernatural perspective.
It's like Anderson's idea is to ask Hawley, a private investigator, for help.
Foreign monks like to recite sutras, but observing the whole event from the outside can provide a new perspective.
As long as people jump out of the original fixed thinking, they can look at the problem from another detached perspective. Hawley's biggest role is to lead the plot to the supernatural link that Stephen King has been hiding for so long.
To see Stephen King's work is to travel within the worldview he has constructed.
People always hope to explain everything that happens around them through their existing knowledge reserves, but in most cases it always backfires.
It's also interesting to say that in real life, the old American promoted Christianity, and even a large number of people believed that the earth was flat. In the surreal and mysterious American dramas, the big guys became staunch atheists. Even though the entire story is based on shapeshifting demons, a large group of people still stick to their materialistic views.
If everything can be explained by existing knowledge, then there is no need for scientific research. Scientific research is the process of continuous exploration and discovery, and then establishing theories and then verifying them in practice to guide practice.
Even the shape-shifting demons encountered by Anderson, Hawley, and others, as long as they can establish a knowledge system, it is a knowledge system.
Father, like son,
Unbelievable monsters are chaotic.
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