Today's film review 丨 "Detective Lincoln" - the drama version of the human bone puzzle is coming

A good detective who hunts down a serial killer is seriously injured in a hostage rescue operation, and after three years of severe injuries, he chooses to retire, and he is invited by the police to help crack another case that is highly consistent with this serial killer's method, and the story begins...

If you saw the synopsis of this story, what would you think?

Probably the first thing that comes to mind is "The Silence of the Lambs." But after adding the details of detective paraplegia and serial killer modus operandi in the story, you'll be sure it's "Human Bone Puzzle".

In fact, there are only so many routines and structures of the story, and how to tell the development of the story is the core of the reader's attention.

This crime mystery novel by the famous American writer Jeffrey Divo was adapted into a film in 1999 before this series, and starred the famous black actor Denzel Washington, the Oscar winner and Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and Angeli Na Jolie, who was still incredibly pure at the time. Although the Douban score is not high (7.4) - this is also a common embarrassment for many classic suspense crime novels adapted into film and television works. However, the audience still praised the acting performance of the protagonist.

After all, a particular role with a high paraplegic is extremely difficult to perform, and Denzel Washington uses his superb acting skills to highly restore Lincoln Lyme, a character with a disability and excellent intelligence. Although the narrative of the film itself is slightly chaotic, and the ambiguity of the male and female protagonists is deliberately expanded, the plot is not clear about the priorities, so many people do not buy it. However, due to the classics of the original work, many people are still looking forward to this masterpiece that is not very happy when it first moved to the big screen.

Without further ado, let's take a look at what the first episode of the show says.

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The opening scene of the show pulls the timeline back to 3 years ago, lincoln stepped into the trap of the serial killer "Bone Collector" to rescue the hostages, causing him to fall from the high platform to paraplegia, and the hostages were also killed. Three years later, a brave policewoman jumped into the subway tracks to rescue the hostages who were tied to the subway by the same "game playing" method and protected the scene, so that they were forced to stop in front of her. And therefore got nicknamed "madman".

The police took the policewoman Amelia to Lincoln's residence, where she enjoyed "technology changes her life" the whole time, for help. Lincoln didn't hesitate to accept it — if you've seen the original book or seen the previous version of the film that was faithful to the original in terms of frame people, just watch the first ten minutes and you will know that the screenwriter of this show is very ambitious, and the basic character of the original has been changed dramatically.

The police detective who was devastated and embarrassed in the original book, who was repeatedly entangled in his heart when deciding to accept a new task, and carefully selected to re-emerge after carefully studying the case, was replaced by Lincoln, a new era of fast-paced and efficient and always high morale in the play. Maybe the screenwriter just wants to create such a touch guy's personality, or maybe because it is an American drama after all, there is time to establish the human setting, and what kind of three-dimensional fullness this image will be still needs to wait and see.

In the play, the policewoman is a patrol officer with criminal psychology, who is invited by Lincoln to join her team because of the high talent shown by the hostage rescue incident. Also joining the team was lincoln's forensics team before he was injured.

The equipment of this drama keeps up with the development of the times, and the heroine wears a high-tech panoramic high-definition camera so that when she takes the lead, she can let this high paraplegic detective who is inconvenient to travel remotely command on the big screen.

Based on Lincoln's custom of gathering three victims in a day and leaving clues at each site where the victims were placed, they found a second park victim from the clues of the subway station victims, who were still alive when they were found. In order to guide the victim to tell the location of her victims as soon as possible, the policewoman told the story of her parents who were killed in front of her when she was 14 years old and everything she could remember at that time, and successfully found the surveillance at that time.

At the same time, he answered the audience's first question, why is such a good education and performance just an ordinary patrolman?

The reason is that after three years of patrol officer career, she finally qualified to apply for the FBI criminal psychology profiler position and was rejected because she concealed that she had a variety of psychological disorders such as PTSD and anxiety disorders — you can have these mental illnesses, but you have to be honest. Apparently, she paid for her wrong behavior choices.

As with all crime dramas, the easy clues must not point to the right person.

While pursuing the third victim, Emilia finds herself under surveillance and her sister kidnapped as the third victim. Lincoln's team affirmed that the crime was a parody of a psychopath obsessed with serial killers.

So the male protagonist quickly solved the mystery of the new clue in the next three minutes, so that the female police successfully rescued her sister, and the new team was officially established.

At the end of the episode, the writers not only leave a new story thread for the main boss according to the convention, but also let the audience understand that Lincoln is not like what he said to the policewoman, "no home" but to protect his wife and children from being separated, and Lincoln, who has been trying to help him stand up with various new treatment options, suddenly finds that the "toe" skill he has been trying has succeeded.

Lincoln, who is moving towards this version of high-tech changes, will most likely be able to regain his footing or even walk with the help of high-tech later — I didn't expect anything from that :)

Overall, the first episode of the show is mediocre.

The atmosphere is generally shaped, the trend of the case clues is completely not brain-burning enough, and even the positioning in the suspense category makes people feel that they have failed. The clue given by the bone collector's imitator is simply simple and crude like a straight ball. The male protagonist's case-solving IQ is really not amazing at all. The only advantage may be that the pace is fast and the novelty of following the times, but in all fairness, this "high-tech" can only be compared with the criminal investigation elements of the original book, and its level of technology is not as good as the "All-Territory Notice APB" that was cut in the first season of 17 years.

As for whether this drama is your dish or not, you can only know if you try it yourself.

In terms of actor performance, the male protagonist is Russell Hornsby, the actor of the black police officer in the American drama "Green" familiar to domestic audiences, for the actor's acting skills... To put it mildly, it's a bit of a stretch.

In this drama, the interpretation of this famous detective makes people feel so full of posture that they are a bit suspected of overcrowding. Of course, all kinds of detectives will be arrogant and cunning, which is the norm, but some people interpret the natural as if the Buddha-figure is resurrected, and some people interpret it so that the audience can feel "he is really working hard" across the screen. Can't stand this style, it all depends on personal taste.

The heroine is Ariel Keber, who plays soy sauce in many American dramas (such as "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Golfers"). For this actress, there will definitely be a lot of audiences who will be impressed by her. The appearance is highly recognizable and the acting skills are good.

This time, the two perennial supporting roles have rarely been upgraded to the main coffee, and I also hope that the future plot and performance will both give strength and bring fresh blood to the classic works.

As Lincoln said in the original book of "The Human Bone Puzzle", "The starlight we see was emitted thousands of years ago." When it reached Earth, the planet itself had already changed. They are no longer what we see. ”

Published in 1995 to capture a large number of fans, the case in this edition of "Lincoln Detective" has been adapted and presented to us in front of us, and the finished product is no longer what it was in the original book. But if it can inherit the essence of the original book, Jeffrey Differ continues to shine, then we are also happy to accept the changed light.