It's hard to just define it as a suspense drama.
This point was said by the creators in the interview: During the production, they understood that what this show really wants to talk about is how people who have experienced great trauma are how to get out of the trauma.
Mel's life is heavy. When he was young, he was called Lady hawk. However, the bright lights of his youth could not illuminate the gloomy life at the moment. In the montage of the first episode, through the dull and lifeless gray town glimpse, people can instantly think of gray, cramped, heavy, and depressed, and since then the emotional atmosphere has been established.
The thirteen-year-old father committed suicide because of depression, and after becoming a mother, the young son also chose to end his life due to the dual problems of mental illness and drug addiction. After losing her son, she was estranged from her husband because she could not come out for a long time, and finally divorced.
At present, the man who became the ex-husband is actually engaged and bought a house that is almost in his own backyard; the unsolved case at work has been unsolved for more than a year, and the mother of the key victim is not a stranger, He was still a teammate of the basketball team when he was young; in addition, he also worried about whether his grandson's involuntary blinking was a sign of inheriting his son's disease, and he had to compete with the child's drug-addicting mother for custody and other issues.
As Richard said in the show, she looked like she had too much on her shoulders. In her own words, her life is a mess. Elegance is not an option that she can achieve now. Clothes are mainly comfortable. Although her figure is a little bloated, she doesn't care at all, and junk food is also used to it. The whole person looks tired and tired.
Except for work, I don't pay much attention to things, and I'm cautious. This can be explained from the time when I planted the blame on my grandson's mother, the girl who got rid of drugs. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made a low-level mistake and stuffed the drugs with the stamp of the previous case into someone else's car without even changing the bag.
But she is still serious and responsible for her work, the unsolved case that the mother of the missing person and others said the police did nothing to do for a year. Even when she was trying her best to justify herself, the girl who moved out of the drug addicts might have overdose and fell into the river. After this set of arguments that she had long since drowned at the bottom of the river, when she saw that the missing person notice on the telephone pole was worn out and difficult to identify. , Mel still took out a new list and tools from the car to replace. It can be seen that such a situation is daily, that is, a flyer with a missing person is always kept in the car.
You can't say she didn't do her best.
In fact, she is quite capable and experienced, and she is very persistent in the case. It is this trait that makes the police detective played by Quicksilver have to admire her and have a good impression of her. However, I still don't quite understand such a charming and lovely character. How to write to death is to make Mel suffer the slaps of the male detective's mother and make her life more painful. ? Probably.
Companionship and support of loved ones
I like this drama very much, and it is also the two indispensable characters in the drama - the heroine's daughter and mother.
Mel's daughter, Siobhan, is the most pure and kind girl in the film and my favorite character. She is beautiful, cool, brave and has a sense of justice. When Irene was bullied in the forest, she bravely came out to help stop those bullies. When I came across a date invitation from a radio girl, I turned it down because I wasn't single at the time. In order to keep this family from being torn apart, I focused on attending a local university and trying to maintain the family as much as possible, rather than schools in other cities that I liked.
Her girlfriend on the radio is also very cool, encouraging her to pursue a better life that suits her, even if the relationship between the two no longer continues.
Mel's mother is also a very interesting character. Although I always quarrel with my daughter, I always stand by my daughter's side, hoping to accompany my daughter and let her get out of the trauma of her son's suicide as soon as possible. When attending a neighbor's farewell banquet, he was caught off guard by the news that he had an extramarital affair with him. Funny and true.
At least there is still family company, which is one of the few gratifications for Mel. And the two most touching and tearful scenes in the whole play are also the two scenes with the daughter and the mother.
When it came out, the daughter drank too much because she couldn't wait for a reply from the person she liked. Then she yelled at her mother, "I hate you, I hate you, why did I find out about my brother's death first, not you. It shouldn't be me, I hate you..."
The other is during the meal, because the mother put a bandage on her grandson and asked her a little surprised, "If I was injured when I was a child, you would tell me to shut up and solve it myself." Then the old mother confided her heart at this time, then It's time to be angry, angry that the man he married is not what he wanted, angry that she failed to cure the man's depression, and finally the man chose to commit suicide, so a lot of temper was spilled on his daughter. ", and then started crying that her daughter should forgive herself and her son who committed suicide because it wasn't her fault...
Friendship and understanding
Speaking of the rhythm of the gradual detection of the case in the plot and the design of the ending, the ending of the final flip is quite surprising. Originally, it made sense for the bearded John to be the murderer. What we saw was a man who couldn't control his lower body, was overwhelmed by desire and cheated again. He was so selfish that he wanted his younger brother to be a scapegoat or even a man. Killed his younger brother while fishing to completely cover up the crime.
However, the identification of the pistol used as the case and the original owner of the necklace kept by the deceased Irene made it clear that Mel, who had been aware of a slight violation of the case, grasped the truth of the matter.
The murderer who finally surfaced was not the husband of his best friend, but the son of his best friend. However, the child is not an anti-social personality. He doesn't even know how to use a gun. It was an accident to protect the family. . Obviously, this is a fact that is more difficult for her and her best friend to accept than the previous setting. The father, who was originally a bastard and extremely selfish, suddenly had a little more action in trying to force his brother to death. It was an extremely painful pulling, struggle and helplessness to make a choice between the palm of the hand and the back of the hand.
We can see that the friendship between the two people has also been baptized for many years, and it is indestructible. Before the mystery of the case is revealed, even if it is known that Mel is pushing everyone away, Lori still guards Mel.
And when all the truth surfaced, Lori naturally couldn't accept it. She thinks it was her best friend who broke up her family and made her lose her son, and of course it wasn't Mel's fault. In the end, the two of them hugged each other and fell to their knees helplessly in Lowry's kitchen, which was considered a reconciliation.
Long live the understanding. longlive friendship.
Ego struggle and survival
Mel's specific expression of the pain of losing his son is that he no longer talks about him, his son's life, or his son's death process, and tries to avoid mentioning his son and related topics in his daily life. In the quarrel with my daughter, my daughter complained that we no longer talk about my brother, nor my ex-husband. Until it was discovered that he was framed, and he was required to undergo mandatory trauma therapy.
Regardless of whether the popular five-stage theory of grief faced by people is scientific and reliable, rejecting reality and escaping reality, anger and frustration do strike in the form of combined punches.
We see that Mel wants to come out, in addition to the company and support of relatives and friends, he still needs a little other stimulation. For example, when he learned that his ex-husband was engaged, he started a new life; for example, the novelist professor who met him in the bar gave him a good impression, and another police detective expressed his goodwill and dating invitation during the same period, and he knew that he was still attractive. As well as her daughter's choice of Berkeley University in a foreign place, she told her daughter that she should choose to leave, that is her life.
Playing a key role in promoting should still be the detection of the two cases. Because it happened to be the case of disappearance that was handled for detection, and the missing person happened to be the daughter of his friend. In another homicide, the victims were all teenagers, daughters of acquaintances in the small town.
And the pain of losing a child is more unforgettable than her.
So when the two cases were solved one by one, she began to take the initiative to find the psychiatrist. The doctor motioned to Mel, before the case, you were using other people's grief as a distraction to ignore and escape your own grief. But now that the cases have been solved, the grief remains there.
Therefore, in addition to the company and support of the relatives , and the protection and understanding of friends , the most important thing to face and overcome this disaster is the self. Like if you fall and get hurt, you definitely need to lie down for a while, but in the end, you have to get up, pat the dust, and move on.
Life is inherently difficult, isn't it?
Everyone is an island, and you have to struggle to get close to each other to become a land.
And when you're alone at sea, you've lost a loved one, or suffered an almost devastating blow. You have the right to be angry, you can escape, you can spit your anger on your relatives and friends... But in the end, you still have to lean down and reach out to yourself in the dark depths.
ps: Kate Winslet's acting skills can't be better. She lifts weight lightly. Her sighs, demeanor, and eyes must make Mel's image vividly; and the quality of the picture, shooting and editing are also the standard of excellent movies; script story The rhythm of the suspense and the flip of the ending are also super exciting. These are the consensus of most people, so I won't repeat them.
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