I recently followed two dramas: "White Night" and "Undocumented Crime".
Objectively speaking, these two films are the best among domestic suspense films, but there is still a big gap between them and foreign classics.
I am a mystery fan, and I can find Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Matsumoto Seicho, Higashino Keigo, Yokomori Masashi, Edogawa Ranpo, Shimada Shoji, Miyabe Miyuki... I have basically read all the suspenseful mystery novels and film and television classics.
Among them, my favorite is still CBS TV's special show - "Criminal Minds" (Criminal Minds).
This is an American mystery drama that focuses on psychological analysis. The main character in the drama, the Criminal Analysis Unit (BAU), is a highly intelligent team affiliated with the FBI.
From the first season to the thirteenth season in preparation, there are more than twenty episodes in each season, and each episode tells a crime story.
The members in the play all have their own characteristics
Gideon is the chief senior profiler of BAU, the core of the entire team, and a mentor-level existence. He is a gentle and wealthy single Old man
Uncle Haochi takes off his mask and is so charming
Morgan is the face and hormone in charge of the whole drama, and is always at the forefront of arrests. According to official statistics, he has kicked down doors 103 times in 11 years, and is known as the Door-Kicker by his fans
Dr. Reid is a genius boy with an extraordinary IQ but insufficient emotional intelligence. This introverted little boy with three Ph.D. She is also sensitive, and has the most popular cute contrast with Morgan, who is perfect at flirting with girls.
JJ, a beautiful profiler who is responsible for good looks, was initially a department PR, and later became a mature psychological profiler
Garcia is an FBI computer expert who provides everything for the BAU. A former hacker expert in network retrieval and technical support
"Criminal Minds" mainly analyzes criminals in serial murder cases. BAU involves major violent cases, so the show is full of a full range of perverted murderers. , all kinds of incredible crime modus operandi.
Compared with the solid evidence and scientific analysis of "Crime Scene Investigation", "Criminal Psychology" profiles criminals by analyzing criminals' psychology and behavioral patterns, that is, guessing the gender of criminals. Age, occupation, etc., to further speculate on the criminal’s family environment and growth experience.
"Who did he kill, what similarities do these people have, and why did he kill these people?" Find out "Who is he?" from the answers to these questions.
The most important reason why "Criminal Minds" attracts me to keep watching is not the excitement of the bloody scenes, nor the fact that the process of solving crimes and reasoning reflects an area that I have never touched, but that each story is trying to Explore and present human nature to the best of our ability.
Many times, murderers rarely fit the description of "devil". . Underneath violent, antisocial tendencies is often a person who is simply in need of help. A single-parent family has been abandoned, discriminated against, raped, disliked, and excessively intimidated, which contributed to the formation of the physical state of the serial killer. Coupled with the acquisition of experience in the process of committing crimes, he gradually became devil. "If you could sit down with them and look at them through human eyes, their humanity might become apparent."
It is not evil that drives a person to kill. On the series, many serial murderers are driven by a history of devastating trauma. In the end, you will find that the source of the matter is love, something that they were not satisfied with when they were children, leaving them psychologically disturbed throughout their lives. All hungry for it.
"When a person's heart is filled with darkness, evil will grow there. The guilty person is not the person who commits the crime, but the person who created the darkness." - French writer Victor Hugo
At the beginning or end of every episode of Criminal Minds, there is always a quote as the planes fly in the sky. Looking down at the tiny earthly city of mankind, the human wisdom condensed in words seems so shocking in the evil deeds of the criminals in the play - angels and devils coexist in the world. One of the episodes quotes Nietzsche's famous saying - "Those who stare into the abyss for a long time will be stared into by the abyss." Instigated, he kidnapped and killed nearly a hundred people before being discovered, and the victims were all dismembered and fed to pigs after being killed. The BAU could only count the number of victims by how many pairs of shoes they found at the scene. When faced with the shoes spread all over the floor, everyone was silent... It was a kind of despair staring into the abyss, and one could feel the hell emanating from the abyss. The breath is eroding and infecting itself.
We often say that domestic dramas are not as good as American dramas. In fact, with the development of technology, our hardware is no longer inferior to that of the United States. However, in terms of core, the eyes of American screenwriters can always see invisible wounds.
It is these invisible things, dignity and self, that make people human, not accessories, not objects, not tools... just like the wounds left on the body by domestic violence with fists and kicks. There is always healing, but the invisible things that were taken away are forever missing.
As a dark American drama, CM never forgets to give us light and hope.
Hate cannot dissolve hate, but love can breed love. Those beautiful things, laughter, touching, help, love, family affection, friendship, have never disappeared.
The logic is a bit confusing. Let’s talk about “Mad Men” another day. Although it doesn’t have cool special effects to attract attention, it is a deeply heart-warming period drama.