I have to say that the anticipation of watching a show is very important. With the purpose of relaxation, I look forward to seeing an addictive crime drama, and every time I use it twice, the result is that I have not tasted its wonderfulness. Fortunately, there are a lot of great short reviews, long reviews and discussions, which can live up to this good drama.
From Netflix, based on the best-selling book MindHunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by ex-FBI agent and crime profiler-turned-professor John E. Douglas ), David Fincher of House of Cards directed the first 2 and the last 2 episodes, which was significantly higher than that of House of Cards. Mindhunter is very similar in temperament to the run of the night. Compared with the crime profile drama of the same theme, Criminal Minds is not enough. Commercial films and literary films are so blue and white.
To put it simply on a theme: when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you.
Are the criminals born or made? Regardless of the answer, the influence of the family of origin is very important. There is no doubt that, in this sense, criminals - no matter how extreme - are not fundamentally different from any of us. In other words, the process of exploring criminals is in the extreme. Observe human nature itself under conditions . But the most eye-catching thing here is the change of "normal person" Holden, David Fincher broke the dimensional wall, so that the audience can no longer watch on the sidelines, but was dragged in by themselves and caught off guard, facing "I have There's a good chance they're the same people" the inconvenient fact. If you watch it carefully enough, by the end of the first season, you will probably fall to the ground in horror like a young FBI agent, barely breathing.
Many film critics mentioned: three main lines-interview, assisting in solving crimes, and the transformation of the characters themselves. The serial killer of each interview, followed by a similar real-life case, corresponds to Holden's changes.
Ed is the starting point of everything, with high IQ, style, affinity, and talkativeness; Holden at this time is just a shy, idealistic and bookish FBI lecturer - Criminal Minds mainly served hostage negotiations at the beginning, marginal and unpopular . Ed's story is about the "mother of oppression". In the conversation between the two, he is a teacher, and Holden is still very young. He and Bill help the local police with what they have just learned. In the murder case, it was untimely to drop the book bag at the police station. Fortunately, Bill saved the scene, and the small bridge was full of joy. Holden met his girlfriend of a sociology graduate student from a bar, and he was completely rhythmized by the girl. But he has already Started to be influenced by Ed: He who never eats egg sandwiches actually ordered this one.
The second SK is Monte. His story is about "possessiveness". Holden solved the case of three brothers, sisters and sisters teaming up to kill his girlfriend, but he couldn't help asking how many sexual partners his sister had - he suffered influence.
The third interview features women's shoe lover Jerome, whose story is about an "abnormal obsession". Holden is smart, he's grown up in conversation with SKs, and he's eager to be the one who controls the rhythm of the conversation. He opened the breach with oversized women's shoes, and boldly shared similar stories from his childhood to draw closer. This time, the reality is no longer the crime that has happened, but the primary school principal who likes to scratch the soles of his children's feet. Advice from FBI cost widely respected principal his job, has Holden crossed the line? Maybe he's right - this unusual obsession can be a precursor to crime, but where exactly are the boundaries of intervention? How different is it from the Thought Police to predetermine a person's guilt by the possibility of a crime?
The last interview subject is Richard, he is not a serial murderer, but a mass murderer, and his story is about "cowardice". Holden is no longer Wuxia Amon, and while he is full of confidence, he is increasingly unwilling to be bound by rules. In order to get Richard to speak, he simply used the sentence he learned from Ed: You got to make it with that young pu* before it turns into Mom; The dazzling arrangement; he lost his usual prudence, and after the case was solved, he talked freely in the bar with the police officers who admired him, so that the matter was exposed in the news, and when Bill came to question it, he didn't take it seriously; he knew his own The behavior is not in line with the rules, but he does not think it is wrong. He instructs his subordinates to lie in front of the inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and even after being exposed, he says, "The only mistake I have ever made is to doubt myself." Holden is a firm believer. He was about to pay the price for his arrogance.
At the end of the season, Holden escaped from the intensive care unit in a panic, fell to the ground in horror, and woke up like a dream.
- "Why are you here, Holden?"
- "I don't know."
——“Well, that is the truth.”
What is the truth? Truth is that he thought he was using Ed, but in fact he was the one who was manipulated and changed unknowingly. Its coming is gradual, its penetration is also deep. Serial killers become monsters because paranoid desires are allowed to take root and swell into flowers of evil. Holden wants to solve the problem of "killing for no reason", wants to be a hero, wants to save people, when these kind or "legitimate" desires expand uncontrollably, isn't it a demon? For his "cause", he can now destroy and falsify evidence, can lie to his superiors, can brutally dismiss all dissenting voices as complacent, and who can say that more terrible things will not be done in the future ? Didn't Jerome start with a "little" mistake like stealing someone's underwear?
So, what about you, who has been watching Holden's changes safely and relishly on this side of the screen? Before Ed's embrace, did you also appreciate his growing self-confidence, convinced that his "flexibility" was just a "necessary evil" that had to be done for the greater cause? Don't you realize that Holden is acting logically more and more like those serial killers? Do you never feel like a serial killer is the same creature?
is the same creature. This is the basis for the establishment of the behavior analysis department and psychological profiling. Previously, most of the extreme violent crimes had "reasonable" reasons: for love, hatred, and wealth. Those who cannot use these explanations are born evil or mentally ill. If it cannot be explained, things are more like accidents or natural disasters, which cannot be predicted or prevented. However, in the 1970s, the number of unmotivated extreme violent crimes in the United States increased, and those in the know struggled to find a countermeasure. They discovered the group of "serial killers" through a large number of interviews, invented the concepts of "profile", "organized/unorganized killer", "signature", "stressor", "trigger", and identified the cruelty and killing of weak animals, love of arson and More importantly, they eloquently prove that childhood trauma is a necessary and not sufficient condition for serial crimes of extreme violence, thus revealing the cause and effect of serial crimes and social environment. The increase in serial murders, like the seemingly unrelated events such as the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate incident, is not only a symptom of social changes, but also strengthens the changed people's hearts. While this is unpleasant, there is not necessarily a solution to the problem, and sometimes just knowing the connection can give you peace of mind.
The first generation of psychoanatomists, under pressure and misunderstanding, pioneered admirably. They also paid a price for this job: as described in the original book, Doug once passed out in a hotel room due to prolonged stress and acute encephalitis, and the situation was so serious that the FBI prepared a cemetery for him. This is the end of Holden The archetype of fainting; their work involves killing, dismembering, and raping every day, and they are completely unable to tell their families that it is difficult for fathers and children, husbands and wives to maintain a long-term healthy relationship, which is reflected in Bill. Regarding the characters and prototypes in the play, one film critic said very well: "The two protagonists cannot simply correspond to a single character in reality. Their backgrounds and characteristics are more like from multiple FBI agents. Whether it is John Douglas , or Robert Ressler, or even Howard Teton and Pat Mulaney, their life stories, character traits were chopped into many pieces by the director, and they were mixed into the two male protagonists. Supplemented with some original content. So the two male protagonists can be said to be a collection of these archetypes, which also makes them look a bit like A, a bit like B, and in some places, C or D can be seen.”
Finally, feeding cats and tins full of ants are meaningful metaphors, and I've seen at least three or four interpretations. Maybe it's saying: try to get into the dark, you have no way of knowing how things are going. You can only hear the cat meowing, see that the can is empty, and speculate that the fish was eaten by the cat, but you can neither see nor control it, and there is no way to be sure. This is just like the exploration of the dark place in the heart of the human heart - you can only speculate on the surface of the phenomenon, but you can never know what happened there, and you have to be careful to be eroded by the insects and ants there.
Everyone's tricks can change, each with their own ingenuity. In the same book, Criminal Minds is a way, Silence of the Lambs is a way, and Mind hunter is full of Fincher's fingerprints. Only a paranoid can make a masterpiece: Finch is also a hopeless perfectionist, and 3 or 40 is the starting price for a scene. In this scene, Holden and Ed's first ten-minute conversation took two full shots. God, the language of the camera is back to basics, and it's not very clever. It is said that in the eyes of Finch fans, this is almost a porn shot for them.
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