After watching the last episode of Season 8 a few days ago, I decided to watch "Homeland" again. From 2011 to 2020, for 9 years, the intermittent experience of the episodes made it difficult for people to have a holistic understanding and thinking about the episodes, so it is necessary to brush it again.
The first season of 2011's Homeland told a compelling story, and it's no wonder it created such a crowded situation that even then-President Obama became a fan of the show. When the US military raided the al-Qaeda nest, they found an American, Nicolas Brody, who was a US Army soldier in the Iraq War. After being captured by the enemy, he sold it to al-Qaeda to become its prisoner and was imprisoned for a long time. 8 years. After Nicolas Brody was rescued, he became an American hero under the media hype. Brody's influence is seen by American politicians, and the vice president of the United States wants to use his power to help himself run for the next president of the United States. But unexpectedly, Brody is not the American hero in the media reports. He has been infiltrated by the leader of Al Qaeda, Nazir, and has become a pawn for Al Qaeda to deal with the United States. And all of this, American politicians, CIA high-level officials do not know at all, only a senior intelligence officer Carrie knows. Carrie, a resident intelligence agent in Baghdad, Iraq, learned from the Nazir bombers that an American had been turned against. And just ten months later, Brody was discovered. So Carrie believes that Brody is the American who has been instigated, and he is preparing to create a terrorist attack on American soil.
Carrie told her boss Saul about Brody's suspicions and hoped to monitor Brody's every move, but Saul rejected Carrie's request, telling her that she must find concrete evidence to investigate. Carrie took a stab at his sword and used his own resources without authorization to install a camera in Brody's house to spy on him. In the process of monitoring, Carrie discovered some abnormal behaviors of Brody, such as squatting in the corner of the bedroom for several hours, going to the storage room late at night and early in the morning, and having nightmares late at night...
(There is a bug here, two years ago, under the order of the vice president, there was a crackdown near the school where Nazir was hiding, and at this time, Brody had been released from the cell by Nazir, and he was free to move around in the room, teaching Nazir's child Issa English. After Issa's death, Brody began to undergo Nazir training to become a terrorist. Then, in these more than 2 years, Brody's living environment and physical and mental health must have improved, and the captivity syndrome should have eased. However, Brody returned home. Still showing some abnormal behavior, especially squatting in the corner of the bedroom all the time, which feels like a bug of the writers.)
While Carrie continued to suspect Brody, several events confirmed the speculation of an imminent terrorist attack in the United States.
Lead 1, from one of Carrie's informants. The informant was a courtesan around the Saudi prince, and she witnessed Nazir having a cordial conversation with the Saudi prince. The informant was then shot and killed, and the killer took away the jewelry necklace that the prince had just given her. As the investigation deepened, it was found that the jewelry was taken by the Saudi prince's housekeeper to an underground bank. (There is a question here, is it the prince who supports Nazir or the prince's butler supports Nazir? Judging from Carrie's words and the reselling of underground banks for money, it should be that the butler supports Nazir. But why does the prince send courtesan jewelry necklaces for no reason? There is no reason, he Almost never give jewelry to girls, if it's not to fund terrorists, why all of a sudden? No reason. So I think it's a bug.)
Clue 2, who took the money? At this time, the US military secretly escorted a terrorist back to the CIA headquarters. This person was the only surviving terrorist in the Afghan POW concentration camp when Brody was rescued. From the terrorist's mouth, the CIA got an email address. And this email address pointed to a university professor who happened to have been to the underground bank. The arrests were launched, but the university professor's hideout was empty. Multiple investigations found that there was a white American woman beside the university professor, who was a terrorist. On the run, the university professor was shot by terrorists, and the white girl fled to Mexico. Saul and the FBI arrested the girl in Mexico. During cross-examination, it was learned that a man had been on the roof of their residence for hours.
Clue 3, who is this man? The girl identified the man through the image as Tom walker, an Army sniper captured with Brody, who was a partner in the sniper duo. The joint walker operation between the CIA and the FBI began. Tom walker was located through a phone call with his ex-wife. Tom walker infiltrated a mosque at the time of the arrest. Using the topography of the mosque and the worshippers, he successfully got rid of him. FBI agent. After that, Tom Walker became a nationally wanted man. Carrie lobbied the mosque leader to tell him what he knew about the walker, but the mosque leader kept his mouth shut. Finally, his wife secretly told Carrie what she knew. It turned out that Walker had met several times with a Saudi Arabian diplomat at the mosque.
Clue 4, following the clues, the Saudi Arabian diplomat surfaced. Through threats, the diplomat, as requested by the CIA, informed Walker to meet with a secret signal the next day. Arrived at the meeting place - a fountain square, the diplomat was already in place, waiting for the walker to come and join. A person who looks like a walker quickly approached, no one could recognize his appearance, so all the arresting personnel had to stand by. At the last moment, Carrie felt wrong and shouted for the personnel to leave the scene. At this time, the bomb in the hand of the visitor The handbag exploded. The one who detonated the bomb was Walker, who was watching all this from a window not far away. The person who came was a tramp who was hired by Walker and looked like him.
Two failed arrests, and a well-trained and skilled sniper terrorist escaped. This situation has caused panic in the entire American society, and the security of high-level government is extremely tight. But government events are still inevitable, in which the vice president will host a public event announcing his candidacy for president of the United States. On this day, the terrorist attack was ready to be carried out, and the operation was completed by two people. Step1, Walker created panic. He fired three shots in a row to shoot the people around the Vice President, so that all the high-level government officials rushed into the hall with security facilities and entered the safe house; Step2, Brody detonated the bomb vest on his body, killing the Vice President including the high-level government. In the series, the first stage was successful, and the second stage failed because of Carrie's intervention. Carrie found Brody's daughter dana, told her that Brody was going to carry out a terrorist incident, and asked her to call Brodyd to make him give up the operation. Although Dana didn't believe Carrie's words, she also felt her father's abnormal behavior, and finally made a phone call. Under the emotional communication between the father and daughter, Brody chose to give up the action.
These are the key storylines of the first season. The entire storyline is set up layer by layer and is gripping. But these are not the most fascinating points of this story. The character of Carrie is the key to the homeland security story's intrigue, and it's the character's setting that makes the entire series stand out.
Carrie, a senior intelligence analyst at the CIA, is a manic-depressive patient who takes medication like a normal person, so no one has found her problem. Carrie is an analyst with outstanding work ability. She is alert and alert. She can not only find the truth from clues, but also has an accurate intuition that is unusual for ordinary people. What is even more rare is her strong sense of purpose and action. So the outside world described her as a lunatic. How is she crazy? Such as unscrupulous efforts to achieve an end. In order to gain permission to monitor Brody, she tried to seduce Saul, her most intimate and trusted mentor; when monitoring Brody for a month was fruitless, she approached Brody and fucked Brody to get the truth...
Carrie and Brody like this are rivals, you come and go, see tricks and tricks, countless times Carrie is close to the truth, but Tom walker appears, the twists and turns, overthrow all come. In the first season, Carrie was alone, only she had guessed what the truth looked like, but one resistance after another could not make her find out the truth. In the end, the fact that Brody didn't detonate the bomb vest finally broke Carrie. She suffers from mental illness, so is the suspicion of Brody her own fantasy or real? In the first season, Carrie asked others if they agreed with her judgment. For example, in episode 9, through the communication with the leader of the mosque, she thought that the leader knew something about Walker. In order to confirm her judgment, she asked her colleagues: "He knows Tom walker. Can you see that? Am I crazy?" These details also show that Carrie sometimes doubts her own judgment. And from the beginning of his unswerving suspicion of Brody, to the complete overthrow in the middle, to the re-identification of Brody's terrorist identity later, to the fact that there was no terrorist attack in the end. These repeated swinging truths and facts completely collapsed Carrie's mind. She questioned her ability to judge and analyze. She could no longer trust her own judgment. She thought that she had a mental problem. In the end, she received hospital treatment. Here is a point that really pokes the audience. Because the audience knows that Carrie is right, but the rest of the show is in the dark, a good guy is designed to lose his job and even get psychiatric therapy, but the guy who wants to commit a horrible act is about to rise to the top of his power. This contrast is heart-wrenching and emotional.
At the end of the episode, Carrie learns who Issa is, and she's one step closer to the truth. But after receiving electric shock treatment, can she still remember her memory?
END. The episode ends.
Homeland's first season stole the show at that year's Emmys: Best Series, Best Editing, Best Actress, Best Actor. The subsequent "Golden Globe" also won best drama and best actress. Claire Danes, who played Carrie, has since won the best actress for many times.
When Claire took over the show, there was another movie that found her. I forgot the specific content. It seems that the role is to be an assistant to a great man, and the actor of this great man is Xiao Lizi, who once worked with Claire. Claire rejected the film and chose "Homeland", she probably meant to say: If you can play a very good person, why should you be an assistant to others. There is no doubt that Claire's bet was right, and Homeland Security pushed her to the climax of her own interpretation, and she has been soft on winning since then. It feels that almost everyone will be shocked by Carrie in the 11th episode of the first season, so they will be full of praise for Claire's acting skills. I think it was this episode that got the Emmys and Golden Globes judges to vote for her. In addition, the state of Claire in the first season is really good, especially the scene where she and Saul meet and talk for the first time in the first season.
Homeland security can beg the question: What can you sacrifice for your goals? Saul lost his family for his job; Carrie would sacrifice everything for the truth; the vice president would risk thousands of lives for power; terrorists would do anything to get revenge...
And what can you give up for your own goals? Sacrifice what? What to lose?
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