In the movie "Pacific Rim", in order to defeat the invincible alien monster, the scientist entered the monster's brain through neural connections, formed empathy with it, and was frightened with nosebleeds. And recently, DreamWorks Netflix teamed up with director David Fincher to take the audience on the other side of the screen to connect to the most dangerous brain on the planet. Wi-Fi - all this happened in the American drama "Mind Hunter".
Different from other crime-themed dramas, "Mind Hunter" doesn't have horrific crime scenes, cold autopsy rooms, or even too much reasoning. in the conversation.
The male protagonist Holden is a young FBI agent who likes to wear suits and has a hot and stubborn hippie girlfriend. He loves work and gathers behavioral science experts Bill and Wendy to form a special department of the FBI - Behavioral Science Research The group, this group does not fight and kill criminals, but goes everywhere to visit the most dangerous serial killers in the United States. theory.
In the play, Holden and the criminals who shocked the world, such as Ed Kemper, who killed his mother by himself, and Jerome Brudos, the "shoe-loving killer", have all tried their best. The confusion of the world, step by step into the devil's territory, mastering the devil's way of thinking, and he has undergone a quiet change... Just as the difficult Churchill once said to his female assistant: I know that others say me Be like a monster, but in order to defeat Hitler you have to be like a monster.
Today, when the study of crime is so in-depth, we certainly know that many malicious intentions are formed. In the 1960s and 1970s, the dialogues presented in the play subverted people's "Old Testament" understanding of criminals. Criminals are not born evil, they are like the general public, even very polite, intelligent, leadership and infectious.
In the 10 episodes of "Mind Hunter", David Fincher personally directed the first two episodes and the last two episodes, and like "Fight Club", he put the "king bomb" of the plot at the end, and the remaining six episodes He served as an executive producer, and it can be said that this show is more "David Fincher" than "House of Cards". The perfectionist director has constructed "Mind Hunter" with rich texture and distinct layers. From the characters to the story structure, they are all developed in the form of one main and two auxiliary. The line of visit runs through, and is presented with a large number of "heavy taste" dialogues. The camouflaged trust and subtle manipulation between the police and the bandits increase the intensity of diving into the dark plot, interspersed with the crime-solving line and the life line of the characters, to advance the plot and display the research results. At present, Netflix has renewed the second season of "Mind Hunter". According to the information disclosed so far, the second season will involve the Atlanta child murders and the case of BTK (that is, bind, torture, kill) killer Dennis Rader.
The story of "Mind Hunter" is adapted from the book "Mind Reading Detective - FBI Psychological Profiling". The sensational cases in the play are all real cases investigated by the FBI in the past few decades. This book is written by John Douglas, the top personality profiling expert in the United States, who has been engaged in behavioral science investigation and research in the FBI for 25 years. He is also the prototype of the hero Holden of the show. Consultant for many classic crime films such as "Hannibal". John Douglas's book is also a retrospective of modern crime features, and it's a perfect read in this winter season.
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