Last year, I watched an episode on the computer of Big Titty God near Christmas, but because there were only English subtitles, I could hardly understand it, there were too many characters, and I was extremely face-blind to black people, so I didn't think it was too good-looking. During Chinese New Year, I found a version with Chinese subtitles. I watched it seriously, really seriously. When I watched it, I was almost not doing anything else, and I watched the TV series as a movie. And it's really worth it.
I think the best thing about it—although what many appreciate the most is the variety of leading characters in the wire—is the fast-moving viewpoints (each segment is no longer than 5 minutes, and a 60-minute episode of a TV series can even reach There are more than 20 transitions, forming a sharp and neat editing style in the narrative) and a narrative chain that is linked layer by layer. Even though most of the episodes in the first episode focused on dee and mcnulty, it was misleading to think that this would be a classic cop frame -- something from the cop's point of view, something from the criminal's point of view, from what they don't know. point of view to say something. The fact that the line of fire doesn't have a protagonist, if we have to think of mcnulty's exile and dee in jail in the last episode and his minions managing the new minions the way he taught them in the past as some kind of narrative Biting, some kind of reincarnation that swaggers about fate, then we can barely say they are the protagonists. The story begins with them and ends with them.
There are too many foreshadowings in the line of fire that are slightly buried under solid details. One of the sources of the pleasure of watching a movie is when you pay attention to a certain plot, you can guess the hidden side and unspoken side of the character it wants to express. story and impact on subsequent developments. Although due to the structure of the TV series, it is obvious that some foreshadowing is too obvious or not fully mature. Because of this, although the wire tells a story of solving a case (suppressing bandits? Wulongshan??) in time, it hardly feels like a linear narrative. The same characters are collected in one place and compiled in the same environment.
What impressed me more were these narrative chains.
One is the line of conflict of interest and game between the courts, the police force, the parliament, the Drug Administration and even the FBI. In the first episode, McNulty appeared in the image of a troublemaker. He used the power of the judge to make things bigger. After that, the special case team also relied on the intervention of the judge to deduce the case. After that, the judge began to restrain his hands and feet for the campaign, which made McNulty and his party have to turn to the FBI, and faced even greater sadness. On the one hand, the top management of the police force has to mediate with other government agencies. Daniel is at the heart of the feud between the two sides, and if McNulty and Kima are the thugs, Lester is a dedicated observer, and the stunned duo and Polish son-in-law are cannon fodder, then Daniel is an embarrassing leader—he is What kind of mood do you have to lead these scheming men? How to deal with the twelve gold medals of fishing and fishing by the superiors? What's even more exciting is that McNulty learned through the mouths of his FBI friends that Denial was not clean. He had hundreds of thousands of dollars in unidentified funds on his account, but in the first season, it only implied that the same family treated him. related to the functioning of the office. When he was taken by his wife to a staggered cocktail party, when he was like a dog with his colleagues or superiors in high political positions, did he think that he would rather be plotted against by McNulty-because Daniel still has a good policeman in his heart, this good policeman Holding his trousers tightly, preventing him from showing his ass and complicity, climbing to a high position, asking him to hand over the business card to the child who was blinded by his Polish son-in-law, urging him to find justice and persecution for the dozen or so cold corpses. He took care of Wallace as a kid and blamed himself for his death. The genius of The Wire is that it mocks the administrator with full firepower The absurdity of the chain and the corruption of the upper echelons (the shit rolls down the hillside with the urine and ran over Sisyphus), such as the superior who came to condolence when Kima was seriously injured, and he spoke kindly and painfully when he found someone casually.” Leteniutant", but on the other hand, it seems to show a few words of warmth, such as when McNulty vomited uncontrollably because he heard the audio of Kima being shot, Rawl, who has always hated him, said to him asshole, the world is not for You turn and absolve him of the blame (which, of course, didn't stop Rawl from kicking McNulty where he least wanted to go after the case was over). In the end, Daneil's promotion failed, McNulty was exiled, Avon was lightly punished, Stringer continued his career, the special case team was completely defeated in the system, and even failed to become a cancer to make it hurt, no idealism but The most vivid and decisive song that suppressed the excitement to the deepest.
The other, which I prefer, is the painful path of self-knowledge in which Dee and the family of drug dealers have blood that is thicker than water, but he is not intrinsically enough of a drug dealer. The beginning of the wire is that dee, who killed people, was acquitted through the operation of the drug dealer's uncle. After that, he was sent to low rise and began to work hard on his own small site. There he taught his subordinates who didn't know the rules of conduct how to sell drugs efficiently and scientifically, and taught Wallace and Boodie how to be human by playing chess. An exiled second generation builds his own Rome, but he doesn't have the identity and courage of a general (or he won't panic and kill someone in a lawsuit). When he went to Orlando to apologize to Avon for the first time after the release, he couldn't even buy a drink for buy me a drink - until the third episode, because of the outstanding performance of low-rise, he got the bonus, and it was the first time to buy me a drink bought wine, and boasted to her that he was uncle's right-hand man. Money can't satisfy Dee, I really don't know where he learned that there is such a thing in the world - for example, it's not a concubine who can only quarrel for him to buy a big house, such as eating safely and confidently in a western restaurant. A dinner instead of the embarrassingly wrong sample dessert—maybe dee went to community college and got kicked out? Dee's ambitions have always been held back by fear of Avon, and the family blood is embroidered on it lovingly. When the Jamaican offered to go it alone, he didn't hesitate, but ended up telling Avon and was looked down upon. This kind of contempt is probably a universal pain for the second generation - while gaining the protection of the parents, it is more convenient and safe to rise to a high position, but it also means the existence of hinges, talents, abilities and even luck. It will not be regarded as a part of strength, but more attributed to the advantages of birth; and loyalty, prudence and restraint will not be regarded as charm to endorse success, but are secretly labeled as servility. Dee attended the party of a colleague who died of buy me a drink. He was called out to buy wine, and when he came back, he found that the party had broken up. He endured his anger and said that his friends were not loyal, but he knew the gap in his heart. Yes - he and them can't play together after all, can't tell it's because of his pathetic aristocratic blood (Holy Dee? ) or because his conscience has not been wiped out since he earned it. So in the end, Dee's original plan to be a tainted witness is not difficult to understand - completely betraying the family is the only way for him to get himself. But in fact the family is the deepest and most expansive part of his self, even his whole. The disguised mom ends up getting Dee to convict Avon, in exchange for 20 years in prison for the continued functioning of the family—a system much like the police department.
Dee symbolizes the growth path of the next generation, and the growth path of the young people, like a round mirror, stands at the intersection of the two worlds - there, the police station and the drug dealer group are the same as the system. Because of youth and incomprehension of the world, it shows the same nature as human beings. In the Avon Group, dee's peers were killed on the street, arrested and imprisoned, or flourished. His former subordinates, Wallace, Boodie and other little niggers parted ways, either dead or alive. Inside the special case team, it was the stunned green duo who decided to embezzle under misunderstandings. They were originally equal and had quarrels because of their different police titles. When the Polish son-in-law first arrived, he was stern and eager to fight for merit. The ability to work on the desk showed the first sincere smile after being handed in the gun (also touchingly, McNulty firmly kissed his mouth after the Polish son-in-law cracked the code of the drug dealer's BB machine; and When the superior was about to leave the special case team, he named Lester and his Polish son-in-law, but he said that when he left these two trash, the corner of Daniel's mouth had a "you idiot" self-satisfaction). At the end of the first season, Poop yelled at the new little nigger that Dee taught them how to separate money and goods, while Lengtouqing was admonishing the new little policeman. Young people are endless, as the fuel of the system. Evaporation leaves some residue.
Only some people will be the exception, and these exceptions are the most glorious in this film. At least in the special case team, there are three McNulty, Kima and Lester. And Ronnie, although McNulty offended Levy had made her anxious about her career, but when she understood the value of the case and what she had done, she immediately jumped on McNulty in the parking lot happily. Even Ormar and Bubble, these two drug addicts are beautiful and real, confused beings who are both a problem maker and a problem solver.
Works like The Wire are not very popular in China, probably because you can't be half-hearted when you watch it. It's easy to feel bad while watching it while playing with your mobile phone. Of course, it is more likely because the Chinese are relatively blind to black people, especially the little ones who have committed major crimes at a glance, but have names and no surnames, and it is difficult to remember them.
And even though I thought the first season was great, I don't know when I'll have time to watch the second season. Should I also accept my fate and accept the truth that life is just like this can't let go and is forever tormented by unattainable desires.
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