Episode 18 is an episode with a strong sense of form, but I won't watch it a second time because it's really cruel.
Let me talk about the premise first. The United States has a jury system and a plea bargain.
In our case, guilt or innocence depends on hard facts.
However, the jury's verdict is usually based on the "evidence" presented by the lawyers of both parties as the basis for the verdict, so what the lawyer has learned and how to impress the jury is very important.
This is life, and sometimes it is so coincidental, so ironic, and so sad.
The single episode of this episode is a murder case, and the sentence is whether the young girl Bianca is guilty of murder.
In this story, it seems that everyone has "little sins" that don't lead to death. However, the result was that one did die, and the other made a regrettable choice under pressure.
Crime stories are always poignant because of impermanence and coincidence.
There are also two lines in the advancement of character relationships throughout the story.
The first is that Peter asks Alicia to go to church, but in the later scenes, he also has another purpose in going to church. When you think "he made a change", another blow is indeed a common dramatization technique.
Diane and the ballistics expert wrote about emotions on the one hand, and on the other hand, the incident (used by the opposing lawyer as "private contact with witnesses during the trial") affected the acceptance of court evidence.
When learning to write TV drama scripts in China, you are usually asked to "say only one thing in a play", which is correct.
Because once it is not done well, it is easy to mess up the information, and the lines have no end.
However, if you can design a play to achieve dual purposes or multiple purposes, it will be very exciting.
The big scenes of some big dramas are usually structured like this - several parties have their own goals, and in an occasional or inevitable event, they will show different characters and promote their relationship with each other.
The characters can go with the plot, and the ending can push back everyone's story line.
The final scene, when the judge walks into the jury room, we already know the ending.
Bianca faced two options—“agree to accept 10 years in prison for second-degree murder” and await an unknown jury verdict, possibly acquittal, and possibly 45 years in prison without bail.
In the end, under the relief of her mother's "You will only be 34 years old in 10 years." and under the pressure of "45 years in prison without appeal", she broke down emotionally, and finally chose the former.
Then, in the final scene of the episode, the jury members throw their anonymous votes into the trash, all written on it - not guilty.
boom! ——The first 40 minutes are all just serving this scene, or in other words, serving this ending.
The jury found that both testimonies were "inferences." Indeed, in the jury system, the conclusion must be based on existing evidence, rather than personal emotional speculation.
During the whole process, although for the sake of the drama, Bianca did not expressly say "I have not killed anyone" from beginning to end. From the lines of others, we can know that she also ate "It will cause hallucinations." ”, so she herself didn’t know the real situation at that time.
However, whether it is Bianca's choice of actors (not annoying, not aggressive, just a girl from a very good family and quite pure), or the direction of the lawyer's defense (not her robbery), it is actually biased.
This made her "confession" even more poignant.
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