So where did the behavioral science they use come from?
Mind Hunter has the answer.
The labels "netflix" and "David Fincher" guarantee the show's excellence, but it's the show's unusualness that really appeals to me. The two male protagonists (Holden and Bill) have never fired a gun, never armed and put on bulletproof vests and dashing into a criminal's house to rescue a hostage, but instead sit in front of a perverted killer in prison and talk to them, Try to understand the way they think and why they are who they are; either sit in front of the suspect and entice them to break down their psychological defenses and get them to confess.
They walked alone on the road paved with gunfire.
1. How pervert killers are made
Before behavioral science was perfected and popularized, most people thought pervert killers were born that way. In fact, I had the same fear when watching Criminal Minds: a person who looks ordinary and instantly drowns in a crowd, you may or may not know, may seem quite friendly, maybe you are just Help him out of kindness, and then you become the victim.
Is it really possible? Originally an ordinary person, instantly turned into a criminal like a meteorite hitting the earth, and everyone firmly believed that he was born like this. If we think so, everyone around us may suddenly become a criminal one day.
Are criminals born or nurtured?
Fortunately, these criminals were not created by God to make human beings suffer. It is the acquired environment that has caused the criminals' current status bit by bit, and quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. This is exactly the basis of the exploration of Holden et al.
2. Who is using who
During the whole process of exploration, Holden has been emphasizing that they are not sympathizing or caring about these perverted murderers, but are using them. Use them to improve behavioral science, use them to understand the psychology of murderers, and catch those murderers.
But the question is, in front of the real high-IQ criminals, who is the jumping monkey?
Ed should be the only high-IQ criminal in the show so far. It was his conversation with Holden that opened a new chapter in behavioral science. Although they can't fully understand the psychology of these criminals, at least they can classify these criminals and summarize their characteristics as a basis for their subsequent judgments.
In the conversation with Ed, Ed is actually the leader, he decides what Holden eats and drinks, and when it comes to the rise, Holden can't get in. Like Bill said, Holden was hearing what Ed had chosen to tell him. But they don't care. Ed's content is useful enough. However, in the process, Holden also went from being confused at the beginning to believing that he was right at the beginning. He built a false self-confidence, and his self-confidence came from his insight into the psychology of criminals, his ability to control interrogations and interviews, and he was Sherlock Holmes.
But Ed's last hug broke it all. I think it's a hug with pity, something similar to Poor boy, you know nothing. And friends say it's actually a pretty clever revenge that crosses Holden's psychological defenses. Holden has always been on the defensive to talk to Ed, and there needs to be some distance between him and Ed to make him Sherlock; but when Ed elevates their relationship to Friends, when standing in an ICU without alarms Facing Ed who was slowly approaching, he suddenly realized that he still didn't know anything about the people in front of him. He doesn't know why he's here, he can't explain all his actions, he's standing in front of the devil, he's no longer the handsome cop who solves problems in cop movies, but a victim shivering in real fear outside the camera.
This hug is the most subtle design in the entire show. Everyone has a stone in their heart that can easily defeat them, and Ed is Holden's stone.
3.Holden's false confidence
This drama begins with a hostage-taking case. As a negotiator, Holden watches the criminals commit suicide in front of his eyes. From then on, he had doubts about everything he knew. Why do they do this? How can I help them? etc.
Then he met his girlfriend Debbie. Debbie is smart and beautiful, with a unique perspective. She helped Holden open up a whole new angle: why not go back to school?
At this stage, Holden has a little adoration for Debbie. He was not stingy with his compliments and kept expressing his gratitude and admiration to Debbie.
But things have changed.
In the communication with the murderers, Holden gradually built up his self-confidence. The first time he helped police catch the killer, one of the officers praised him as Sherlock Holmes. Everyone was laughing but Holden wasn't laughing because he was serious, he really thought of himself as Sherlock.
After that, things went quite smoothly, and he became more and more paranoid, and he temporarily assimilated himself into them in order to get the account of the murderers. Speak in their language and think in their way of thinking. He forgets the fortifications and forgets the borders, which makes him the most affected.
This led to his desire to control his girlfriend also strengthened. For example, ask how many partners you have had before, such as asking your girlfriend to call yourself instead of asking for help from classmates when she needs to pick up and drop off. The worst case is that when he sees high heels again, he thinks of the perverted killer who likes women's shoes, and he can't continue to have sex with his girlfriend at all.
At the same time, the so-called Office of Investigations has also begun a review of their work. To be honest, if I had seen this a few years ago, I would have found these investigators very annoying, wasting their time preventing the protagonists from doing their amazing work. But now, I feel that the presence of these people is very necessary. They are like the strings of a kite, tugging every now and then to keep the kite in the right place.
And Holden is actually in a rather deviated position. Because of his blind self-confidence, his advice resulted in a principal losing his job. Although the principal does have pedophilic tendencies, isn't it ruining his life to treat him as a pedophile when he hasn't made a big mistake, when he hasn't been diagnosed at all?
But Holden felt he was right. The principal's life was ruined, he did nothing wrong, and the questioning of the examiners was unnecessary. The bell still needs to be tied, and his false self-confidence will eventually have to be broken by the murderers who made him feel confident, and Ed is that person.
When Holden finally collapsed, breathing hard, and was about to pass out, I thought that was his moment of salvation.
4. Bill, who is backed by his family,
compares Holden to Sherlock at the same time that the officer compares Bill to Watson. I think this analogy is quite appropriate. Bill is a rock solid soldier type man who sticks to his place, is Holden's back up, has enough ability to take on new things and old school thinking to help keep things on track. When he realized the value of what Holden did, he helped Holden to win the approval of his superiors without hesitation.
Family is an important part of his character. He was able to give a view of a married American man that Holden couldn't see, as well as a parent's perspective. When he finds himself affected by the whole job, he will turn to his family for love, to listen to his wife, and to calm himself down a bit.
In fact, he was also under a lot of pressure. He couldn't share his work with his wife, and he couldn't communicate with his "autistic" son. There's nothing he can do when the nanny chooses to resign because of a photo of the crime scene, but he won't give up either because what he's doing is meaningful.
He realized that he was addicted to Holden, and he had also persuaded Holden, but Holden's approach was fast and effective, and he was reluctant to lose it. So when Holden might be censored for the recording, he chose to cover up, to protect what they were doing.
He is indeed the Watson of BAU.
5. Wendy who tries to separate work and life apart
from Holden and Bill, there is also a very important role in this play is Wendy. As a female character, her perspective is completely different, and she helps the male protagonists get financial assistance to keep the whole plan on track.
But she also has an unknown side of herself. She's a lesbian who has her own little-known life in Boston. When Holden used high heels and uniforms to spy on the murderer's heart, she actually felt uneasy inside. She was disturbed by her sexuality, and she wanted it all separate, so she suggested that Bill separate his home life from his work as well.
Wendy is a very determined person. When she realized that her partner couldn't understand her work and have control over her life, she left Boston and chose to come to Quantico to help improve behavioral science.
Meanwhile, there's a nice setting in the show where Wendy finds a feral cat in the apartment laundry room, and she's been feeding it canned food. But in the end the feral cat went away, leaving behind a can full of ants. This line actually coincides with Holden's interview with the murderer. All communication and contact are short-lived, and it is impossible for us to understand them, nor for them to trust us. There has to be a border in between.
Wendy, realizing this, immediately apologized to Bill, realizing that it was too difficult to draw boundaries, but it had to be done. So when Holden's cover-up of her inappropriate words and deeds came to light, she was the first to disagree with the cover-up.
If we understand them, how far are we from becoming them?
Write at the end.
Writing here, what I want to say is basically finished. Anyway, what they are doing is a very great thing.
Always remember their triumphant smiles.
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