Indeed, compared to other homicide dramas, each case in Trace is a little too weak and not gripping enough, which somewhat undercuts the brilliance of the storyline. However, the choice of the theme of the sword is slanted, presumably the director and the screenwriter have made sufficient psychological preparations at the beginning of the filming. What's more, for a series that has been on the air since 2002, if there is really a lack of highlights and nothing to show, how can it be allowed to run smoothly on the TV screen in the American film and television market with such a high degree of commercialization? What about the end of its seven-season odyssey? Perhaps "Trace" was finally forced to come to an end under the pressure of ratings, but what other series did not end with this? Compared with those fancy stories that were quickly chopped up by TV bosses in the first and second seasons, "Trace" can last for so long. It is undeniable that its success, even if it is difficult to compare with "CSI" and "Friends", it is still quite satisfactory. , is understandable.
To a certain extent, "The Detective Group" is the most consistent with the weekly schedule of episodes. It does not try to firmly grasp the audience's attention with a tense and coherent plot, but captures the complexity of worldly emotions. Complicated, under the various questions of why he "disappeared", he paints a colorful picture of human feelings, showing the most realistic out-of-control state of interpersonal emotions in the scenes of conflict and violence. There is no serial murder that floods the screen. It is not heroic to save the world, but always remains within the reasonable scope of kidnapping, escaping and searching. The painful missing person in the play will become himself at some time or in the future. Just think: In ordinary life, it may be difficult for us to predict how much impact and harm the sudden loss of emotion will bring to us, and even our relatives and friends. And the whereabouts of the parties involved are also buried in an unspeakable concealment. With the deepening of the case, the series makes us feel the reality that is different from the appearance. It is full of helplessness, frustration, pain and emotion. The seemingly ordinary interpersonal relationship is intertwined with unexpected emotional entanglements. Whenever the protagonist closes a case, they have a little more understanding of life, a deeper understanding, and they realize how hurtful the loss of a sincere emotion is, how precious its existence is, and thus learn to cherish it. people around you. As the audience, we have gradually learned to properly treat our relatives and friends around us, and to properly handle those important human relationships that are ignored or deliberately avoided.
In the seemingly bland plot, "Trace" embellishes and refines the ordinary feelings of people in secular life, and tells us through the clues of "missing": behind the disappearance of the person concerned, what is really missing is actually our emotions, and what we are trying to find It's the hope of bringing back each other's lives. Malone's exclamation at the end of the final play is meaningful, like the "Trace" writers and directors' self-deprecating summary of the show: "In some dark and desolate place, justice triumphs over evil."
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