was very hesitant before chasing this drama. Because I don't really believe that it is possible to make a crime drama for 5 consecutive seasons by relying on "math" gimmicks. It's just that although there are a lot of new and old dramas this season, the quality has a serious downward trend. In the face of drama shortage, we have to do it. After three seasons, my satisfaction with it is still on the low side. On the score of "follow-watching-love-watching-good-looking-can watch-can't watch", it is between "can watch" and "good-looking".
Its downside is ambiguity. The two protagonists, Eppes, are not handsome enough to be an FBI agent, and not weird enough to be a math professor. The screenwriters seem to be in flux: Should the characters be made more "lifelike" or more "dramatic"? In the first season, Don was quite like a little bitter gourd. He was the boss of the group, and when he solved a case, he collapsed on the sofa with a sack of flour that was emptied. Have to pretend to be special. And Charlie, a scientific geek who is clumsy at social isolation. There are some inexplicable "knots" between the two brothers when they were young, but for a noble cause - solving cases, they came together! (Let me wipe a cold sweat first). In the first and second seasons, a lot of film was wasted on the failed love between the two brothers. In the end, the screenwriter was probably afraid that the audience would be as annoying as I was, so in the end, let them get along with their followers. In this way, wow, they It's no different from a "normal person". In the third season, Don smiled too sweetly, Charlie became more and more obedient, and the screenwriter seemed to realize that the two brothers were becoming more and more disembodied, so he forced Don to see a psychiatrist, and also arrested Charlie for an interview, trying to stir up "heart knot" "The cold meal, but the writing of these few scenes is so shabby, and it seems that the skills are poor.
The portrayal of the group portraits in the series is crucial. The men and women of "Criminal Minds" are all stylish and stylish. Some episodes in the first and second seasons specifically highlight the experience of a certain character, which is equivalent to giving them a "little biography", which goes deep into their hearts and shows their shared weal and woe. . "Criminal End" doesn't do this, it uses a clever back and forth hook, each episode seems to be a few casual doodles, as the plot accumulates, the outline slowly emerges, and finally forms a simple but expressive sketch. Even the small cameo characters can steal the show. The one who impressed me was a certain lawyer who played the devil in another soap opera. My God, he grinned, and that look is too Miffy! Goethe saw that he had to rob him to play "Faust". In contrast, Numb3rs' supporting characters are very useless, Terry is a vase in season 1, Megan in season 2 is slightly better, the pair of black and white Shuangsha and Don's new girlfriends are even worse, I can't remember the names so far. It's a bit interesting that Charlie's colleague physicist Larry, but his appearance squeezes Charlie's space to show his personality, and his love with Megan is unsustainable. The screenwriter is in a hurry. In the third season, he will be put into space first. Then we went to the temple again! The most interesting character is Alan Eppes, father of two brothers, more on that later.
The characters can't stand up, which is a great regret. There is also a particularly silly place, that is, every time Charlie helps solve a case, he has to explain the esoteric mathematical principles to the FBI. At this time, adding a yellow filter, a set of pictures and numbers flashed quickly, which made me always Reminiscent of watching the 82 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" when I was a child. As soon as Guo Jing used eighteen palms to subdue the dragon, the camera flashed back to a fake "Dragon's Mouth" and he danced a few times, destroying my love for this. All the beautiful imaginations of the palm method. Sometimes the situation is very urgent, and the expert Charlie has to declare the basis of his decision to the laymen, and then everyone is shocked and admired, and suddenly realizes that it is Jiang Zi! I just went to catch the bad guys. What's even more annoying is that the FBI has been "indoctrinated" for a long time, and they can still interject a few words, expressing their deep understanding of Charlie's theory.
If I were to sum up Numb3rs in four words, it would be a glimpse.
The bad things don't stop there. The pursuit of suspects and the use of mathematical reasoning again and again will inevitably limit the types of crimes. Most of Numb3rs are group crimes, and there are many episodes in a single season of anti-terrorism theme, either explosion or poisoning, killing witnesses like cutting vegetables, even Chinese spies have broken several episodes, and they like to chase and escape to analyze the route. You will soon have a strong feeling that, instead of using number theory in terms of crime, you design crime in terms of number theory. This kind of thinking is natural to the screenwriter, just like House has to rack his brains to find incurable diseases to play brainstorming, but a good screenwriter should let the audience forget this after entering the play. Numb3rs can't. In the 3 seasons, I actually didn't have an impression of a few cases themselves. Similarly, the image of the criminal is extremely pale, clearly a machine that does bad things according to instructions.
But that's where it really shines - Numb3rs, which won the National Science Council Public Service Award in 2007, is said to have "enlisted several mathematicians to serve as consultants to ensure the math the protagonists use to decipher crime in the series. The theory is correct. Experts say the theories, math problems and equations presented in the series can easily be applied in real life." I am ashamed to say that the reason why I am willing to pursue it is that I have heard the things used in the first few episodes, such as Fermat's conjecture, pyramid trick, Schrödinger's cat, game theory... I was unfortunate to study literature back then, yes The love of mathematics and physics is not far from the love of "beauty". The beauty in the rules and the splendor of the imagination have a strong attraction to me. This has nothing to do with the real rigorous science. I am ashamed to mention it to others. Small desserts hidden in the cupboard.
Moreover, I firmly believe that the essence of film and television is to entertain the masses. There is such a play that tries to popularize the advanced number theory to the general public, even if the number theory is just a gimmick, it is worthy of praise - although Yi Zhongtian is stupid, the illiterate can enjoy the pleasure of listening to him, right?
So the yellow filter and Charlie's gibberish are not intolerable from this point of view. In fact, if the screenwriter could be a little more skilled, I'd rather he explain it slower, listen more clearly, and even let me see what's actually painted on the blackboard to satisfy my little curiosity. Even if I know that it is unbelievable that the DNA detection in CSI is completed in tens of seconds, it is absurd that a case of Numb3rs goes from modeling to analyzing the results so quickly. What I am curious about is: how does it feel to watch Numb3rs when you are really engaged in this line?
After watching a few episodes, I found another funny thing about Numb3rs. The love of the Eppes family is the real highlight of it. Alan, who lost his wife late, is the mediator of a pair of sons with very different temperaments. At first I secretly renamed Numb3rs "A Tale of Three Bachelors" - plus Larry was four. Slowly, Alan's image has become more and more brilliant. He is your ideal "father" image: gentle, rational, firm, generous, humorous, not interfering with your growth, but always guiding you when necessary. This kind of thing is often seen in old American film and television, but I never get tired of watching it. Alan's outstanding performance is actually the reason why the characters of the two brothers changed from "drama" to "life" - can a child who grew up under the almost perfect tutoring of such a rational engineer father be a monster? So I was a little impatient with cases that were almost the same, but I was very fond of the couple who were exhausted after solving the case and went back to their old house and their old father for a few minutes of warm scenes. Desserts are more flavorful than meals. Is Numb3rs a success or a failure?
Well, finally, let's talk about the origin of this weird topic. A rare case that left an impression, episode 10 of the third season. Numb3rs has a strong political smell. As mentioned earlier, many plots are related to counter-terrorism, and those terrorists are too much in line with the American people's imagination of terrorists - just as annoying as the imagination of Chinese spies. However, this episode is a bit different. The MP and the doctor were killed one after another inexplicably. The killer then committed suicide and attempted suicide on the run. The evidence shows that they both took psychotropic drugs. Don and the others went on to investigate, it turned out that they were all the so-called Brutus plan - a long-term experiment on prisoners through pharmaceutical companies, said to be "voluntary and strictly controlled" "thought correction", the means are sensory damage, chemical reagents, neurosurgery - — an experiment used by the CIA to "modify" enemy spies for their own use, and then put back as a latent killer. This is a product of the Cold War era. The "experiments" have all suffered inhuman torture, leaving serious sequelae. The list is long, there are as many as 712 in Los Angeles alone, potential bombs that may be "awakened" at any time. The FBI agents, Don and Megan, strongly questioned this, and the CIA agents smugly recounted its benefits, so they had this conversation:
"They're doing bad things, so we're going to do worse things?"
"When When you're fighting for survival, you'll do anything you can."
"Before you knew all this, you gave up your current life." The
mystery gradually opened up. The planner of these assassinations was also a psychiatrist, the brother of a prisoner who died in the experiment. After the lawsuit fails, he will use extreme measures to seek justice for his brother and prevent the Brutus plan from restarting, because it will be reactivated for anti-terrorism. Don they prevented the third murder, but the CIA barred them from continuing the investigation.
"It's about national security."
"You're not trying to cover it up, are you? It's not about the past, it's about the future." "You locked him in Guantanamo, and he shut up?"
"Thank you for your help. , but it's none of your business now."
"What did you say? I shot tonight!" (Don had to kill the controlled mental patient to stop the assassination)
"Your country appreciates you."
Angry Don punched him sharply, knocking him to the ground.
Although it is still a glimpse, it shows a valuable introspection. Battlestar Galactica ("Battlestar Galactica") seriously discusses how to ensure a dignified existence in the most extreme living conditions. I don't know why, but this kind of introspection in American TV shows always moves me, maybe it's reflected by the brazen and complacent energy when our TV shows promote certain "supremacy" ideas.
Want bread, or freedom? To survive, or to develop? Such a seemingly "either-or" option is simply a false proposition. If you don't protect freedom, you can't protect bread. To live to live, not to live. It's not about the past, it's about the future.
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