Just finished watching the last episode of this season today, I slapped my thigh and I was hooked.
The whole series is less like a TV series, more like a movie. There are theories that the creative ideas of TV series and movies are different. The priority of the TV series is how to make the audience have a good time and happiness in each episode, and let the audience continue to watch the next episode of the TV series, so that the ratings will be high; and a movie, because the audience is locked out In the cinema, so it can not deliberately design how to make the audience happy at every small node, but can carefully think about how to tell a good story in two hours. No matter how depressing it is at the beginning, as long as the audience has a kind of admiration of "that's it" at the end of the movie, the evaluation of the movie must be good and the box office will be high. "Breaking Bad" is more of a movie, and in many of its episodes, the audience feels anxious, repressed, and frightened, as uncomfortable as scribbling on a blackboard with a ruler. But if you look at many episodes together, you will find that the characters are rich, the story is coherent, reasonable, but unexpected, and the background music and mirror movement are both contextual and aesthetic. And most importantly, it conveys its gist very well: the person who becomes the big bad is not necessarily born to be wicked, from the good to the bad, all it takes is a head to do small bad things.
From passively killing bad people, actively killing bad people, passively killing good people, and actively killing good people, Lao Bai became worse step by step. Making methamphetamine is more than just making methamphetamine. If you get involved in the criminal industry chain related to methamphetamine, you will be affected by this environment where you can't survive without being ruthless. Lao Bai chose to do meth, in fact, he chose a package that included many bad things including doing meth, and he couldn't get out of the mud without getting dirty. His original intention was to take care of his family with money from crime, but he actually made his family's situation dangerous, and his relationship with his family didn't get better because he made meth for money. Although the relationship between Lao Bai and his family has eased a lot this season, it is communication and companionship that make the relationship better, not the stolen money itself.
There are a lot of movie reviews about this season saying, Lao Bai is so cool, I hope it ends here. To be honest, these people did not understand what this TV series was trying to say. It can't end in season four. The previous four seasons have paved the way for so much, and the details of how Lao Bai turned black step by step, Lao Bai has turned into dark gray, and suddenly turned white for no reason, and he stopped washing his hands. The sense of recognition that Lao Bai has acquired in the drug industry is something that he could not get in his previous life. He can't hold back for long, and he will definitely continue to enter this business and do worse things. It's like an arrow has been wound and has to be fired. Finally, in the fifth season, Lao Bai will usher in a tragic ending, and this TV series will end perfectly.
To be honest, I am very envious that the investment environment in the United States can support the film and television industry to produce such a TV series. The whole play is not made to cater to the audience, but to become a landmark masterpiece. In China, I am afraid that only the main theme TV series supported by the government can shoot such a style.
The actors in this play are neither handsome nor beautiful, they are just a group of dedicated actors who have performed a shocking story for us.
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