Dr. House does not heal himself

Mable 2022-04-15 09:01:08

Huge Laurie plays the doctor again, only this time instead of a physician but a neuropsychologist living in San Francisco, Dr. Chance is Hulu's adaptation of Kem Nunn's novel of the same name.

Kem Nunn's novels are known for their dark themes and strong political implications. In 2006, Kem Nunn joined HBO's screenwriters and was involved in the production of "Deadwood".

Therefore, the quality of the script of "Doctor Chance" itself can be guaranteed, and Hulu also hopes to carry out the strange atmosphere that shrouded the audience in the original book to the end. The first season of 10 episodes has a strong sense of criminal destiny.

Chance, a middle-aged man who is in the process of getting a divorce and has to move to a single apartment, finds that one of his patients, Jaclyn Blackstone, has a fatal attraction to him, making him unconsciously want to help her out of "the predicament." Chance had initially transferred Jaclyn to another physician for treatment, but they ran into each other again one afternoon in a bookstore a few months later, and things got out of hand.

In the play he once said an example of "coincidence".

A worker was re-hanging lamps in the lobby of a high-end hotel. He received a call and was distracted. He didn't complete the work 100%. He left a few nails unattached, but the nails that have been installed are temporarily enough to keep the lamps from falling. . After a while, a woman went across the hall to the bar to find her friend. She stopped under the light to sort out the scarf that was tangled up with the earrings, just as a builder outside started using an electric drill, causing a very slight build-up in the building. vibration. The vibration was very slight, but it was enough to make the pendant light fall off.

I often see irreversible changes in people's lives. I sometimes even wonder, if there is such a big change, is our life still ours? Those random encounters in time and space are just pure coincidences, but they make people's life trajectories completely different.

Almost all of the patients Chance encountered were living examples of this fateful coincidence. Mariella witnessed her father's head being cut off by parts flying into the car during the crash. One patient had a big change in his temperament after a stroke, and finally insisted on the upcoming Satan/Yahweh/Jesus battle, drinking mixed disinfectant water to purify his body. After being attacked by a mentally ill passerby, MJ was unable to continue a normal life and could only live on the streets.

But was Chance and Jaclyn's second meeting really "accidental"?

Chance played by Huge Laurie is no longer a strong person like House, but a person who is slightly restrained and full of uncertainty about himself, and the director also emphasized this in every detail. The same scene is completely different. The expression makes us all believe that part of the experience he has seen and felt at the moment may not be true. The director was very subtle when dealing with the third meeting between Chance and Jaclyn in the coffee shop. When Jaclyn asked him about the details of his work, we saw two different Chances, one was the one who shared the details in detail, the other was He was lost in thought.

Similar scenes with completely different emotions abound in the two episodes that have been broadcast. Like the foggy city described in the title, Chance is also in a state of life that is both true and false. At present, we have seen some of Chance encounters. People or things may not be real, but just an illusion he saw when he was mentally unstable.

And the D he met in the second-hand furniture store is another mystery. D is taciturn, but his whole body exudes a strong, self-governing aura, with the spirit of hoeing the strong and helping the weak, and those who block me die. Chance had revealed his frustration in front of D:

it looks like the last person who tried to help them was murdered in a horrific way. If I still want to help, is that a bad idea, or a moral responsibility? He (Jaclyn's cop husband) is smart (doesn't kill people himself), someone like that is a trouble in itself, a murderous homicide detective who knows how to play around with the system. In other words, he is the system itself.

However, I do not accept that such a problem will not be solved.

I have always believed that D is just an illusion of a violent solution in the heart of Chance, because both the setting of his appearance (the processing worker of the second-hand furniture store) and the interaction between the two are a bit abnormal and abrupt. #This point of view only represents my position, and has nothing to do with the screenwriter# The dialogue between the two of them is more about Chance leading, stating, complaining, and struggling. D’s own words can almost be ignored, and only some of them are Just introductory words.

Most fights are over before they start. Those people followed us into the alley, what kind of idiot would escape into a dead end? Emotions are higher than rationality. They don't have time to think, they just react passively, so they let me slaughter. There are no victims, only volunteers.

Such theoretical words are not something that someone with an identity like D can say, but more like Chance's inner reading. When the subject of voluntary and passive responses is brought up again, it is cross-presented with Jaclyn's condition.

The director is very careful in the arrangement of details. Chance's struggles and conflicts between morality and inner desires are arranged in many places, as large as the main line of the whole play-whether Jaclyn should be saved from the predicament, should he join D to murder Jaclyn Her husband, as young as the divorce with his ex-wife, selling furniture in a furniture store, and interacting with his assistant for less than 1 minute, all the plots seem to be loose, but they are easily strung together by the director with the same theme.

Although the rhythm of the whole film is not strong, but the whole film is full of thrilling and suspenseful atmosphere, looking forward to the third episode~~~~~

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