In modern society, as an urban person living alone, have you ever been anxious about your personal safety?
Have you ever imagined all kinds of social news cases appearing around you?
What would you do if such a case did happen and you were unfortunate enough to encounter it?
In Hulu's new drama "There's Only Murder in the Building," three people living in a New York apartment called the Arcania Apartments, despite some age differences and very different life trajectories, have the same view on the third issue – teaming up to investigate the case.
Charles, a former actor, has a brilliant record, and his famous detective series have influenced a whole generation of people — people who are old.
Although there are occasional passers-by on the street who recognize it, most of them end with enthusiastic conversations and awkward exchanges and lonely departures.
Although the sexy and fashionable girl Mabel has the troubles of many urban single women - being harassed by unscrupulous verbal harassment on the street, living in a single apartment imagining the possibility of being attacked. But she has a different brain circuit than most women—in Mabel's little brain theater.
If she is attacked, then she will not hesitate to choose to kill back, and the means are crisp and clean - Mabel intimate tips, such an idea is very helpful to improve sleep disorders.
Oliver, an unemployed director, thinks that people living in New York are more like a bunch of orphans, each living alone in their own small box. Although he is now suffering from a crisis in his old age career, this does not affect his optimistic mentality and the attributes of his speech.
The first time the two old men and the young woman intersected in the elevator of the Acaña apartment.
Although the three people in the elevator are socially awkward and some people are socially enthusiastic and some people are socially afraid, they do not know that they all have the habit of listening to a detective podcast program at a fixed time.
So on this seemingly night, just as the three people were hearing the excitement, the alarm suddenly sounded in the building, which forced the people who were unknown throughout the building to quickly evacuate the inside of the giant apartment and move to the security position.
Urban people seem to have their own "wall", and it is difficult to integrate into the atmosphere of others. However, they found a nearby restaurant booth waiting for them, but because they found a common hobby to break this "wall", the original solitary night became a warm detective story fan exchange meeting because of this accident.
After the meal, they returned to the outside of the apartment building and were told that a murder had occurred on the ninth floor of the apartment. The nature is unclear, but the preliminary verdict is suicide. It is only for this reason that they are not able to return to their homes for the time being.
Charles offered to take the freight elevator to the ninth floor to find out, and everyone agreed.
Mabel constructively suggested that everyone should sit on the eighth floor and then walk to the ninth floor, which was blocked by the police.
So the three of them (Oliver's dog) eventually saw a corpse with a large head blasted off. But it left them feeling horrified and a new difference of opinion — the deceased had taken the elevator home with them an hour earlier. At that time, he answered the phone calmly, definitely not in the state of a person who was going to commit suicide.
The trio's discussion also attracted the attention of a policewoman, but she ruthlessly dismissed their doubts — a "textbook" suicide case in financial crisis, with ammunition left in her hand and a suicide note on her computer.
And the three of them strangers are obviously the typical sex crime cases that the podcast has heard too much about, and the fanatic AKA is addicted to real crime.
The disparaged three men went back to their respective homes in disgrace, but Charles and Mabel recalled a detail in their relationship with the deceased in the elevator - there were garbage cans on each floor, why did the deceased always hold a garbage bag? What's in the garbage bag?
Oliver, on the other hand, played the subjective initiative of the director's professionalism, proposing to turn this journey to find the truth into a new podcast program for recording.
Just do it!
So more memories emerge. Going back much further, more details about the deceased's "one-sided relationship" or "passing by" flash in everyone's memory.
And more clues have gradually surfaced, although everyone has their own current life dilemma, but the enthusiasm for the "truth" has not stopped them from solving the case, and the birth of the new program has strengthened their will to form a team.
It's just that everything is starting to develop in an uncontrollable direction...
Before opening Only murders in the building, there was first a problem with the translation of "Sindaya".
In the Douban translation, the title of the play means "There is only murder in the building" according to the English text.
But after watching the first half-hour or so of the film, when Oliver suggested that the new podcast of the three-person team could focus on multiple murders, Charles retorted ," No! We need focus , Only murders in the building.” (No, we need to focus.) Only to do murder in the building) when the trio's TV series of the same name podcast column was born.
Therefore, the Chinese translation of this play is characterized as "Only Murder in the Building" does not seem to be properly called "Murder in the Building". Of course, as for what translation you like, it does not affect the viewing experience.
In terms of actors, the silly face na who came back after recovering from the disease can still play, and her acting skills are also very stable. Partnered with veteran comedian Steve Martin at the 86th Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement, and an all-star cast of Martin Short, an old acquaintance of American drama fans, the chemistry in this show is very interesting.
The three people portray the different styles of people in the play to the fullest, adding more viewing bonuses to the fun of the plot.
It is worth mentioning that this film adopts a large number of staged dramatic shots to show interspersed with it, and the strong colors of the retro style make the visual effects more layered.
The detective structure is more like hitchcock's Rear Window narrative trajectory cloaked in comedy. Overall, the view is meticulous and relaxed.
Although the black comedy attribute is strong, it is not a state that makes you laugh. It's a kind of "Oops, accidentally humored by him" will laugh.
The duration of each episode of about half an hour is also very friendly to pass the idle time, all the plot push is laid out, and there will be no "pseudo-reasoning" awkward straight ball of "output is all by mouth, clues are all dependent on giving".
This also made the first Rotten Tomatoes debut after the start of the show to get a super high reputation of 100% freshness, and also got a good score of 8.4 points on Douban before the deadline.
If you want to feel the relaxed suspense film viewing process, this drama is undoubtedly a good choice.