In the past few days, British dramas have been popular again, and only three episodes have won 8.5 on Douban.
The content is unusual, a true case adaptation, featuring the protagonist Dans, the most notorious murderer in Scottish history.
Homosexuality, necrophilia, homicidal maniacs... You can imagine how many mouths this show has!
But the play itself is not a curiosity hunt, but a revelation of a darker social truth.
Dans
The television production team is quite strong, directed by Lewis Arnold, whose representative is the classic British drama "Real Humans".
The lead actor is "Doctor Who" David Tennant, the detective officer Alec in "Small Town Doubt".
But this time he was not a resourceful detective, but a fierce murderer.
Looking at appearance and occupation alone, you have a hard time associating Dans with a murderer.
Suit and leather shoes, polite, with A Sven gold wire glasses.
Veterans, police officers, and now the profession is still the envy of everyone as a civil servant.
Live alone in an old, single-storey apartment with your dog every day.
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But the more ordinary people look, the more likely they are to hide secrets behind them.
A pile of human bones that clogged sewers reveals the truth of cruelty.
For the past five years, Dans has spoken to poor or lonely young men on the streets and in bars.
Give them a short stay, or a drink, or a fierce sex.
These unfortunate boys may feel happy and lucky.
But the danger occurs after the boys are asleep before Dans shows his murderous side.
Dans would quickly strangle the boy to death with a tie, rope, or wire.
Even if he didn't die, the boy who was already unconscious would be placed at the bottom of the bathtub by Dans and drowned alive by the water.
The killing was horrible enough, and even more serious was Dans's attitude toward corpses.
He would bathe with the corpse, eat with him, and sleep in the same bed.
When "sexuality" comes, it will also hit the plane at the corpse, and other indescribable.
Yes, Dans is a complete necrophilia.
He left the police post because his superiors found him in the morgue to be indescribable to the corpse.
Until the body stinks or the mezzanine layers of the floor can't be stuffed.
Dans would use the dissection techniques he learned from the army to dismember the corpse.
The head is stewed in an iron pot and the face is not visible, and some of the internal organs may be eaten.
The rest burns with old tires and then buries them in the backyard or flushes them into the toilet.
If the sewers had not been blocked, the poor boys' fate might not have been known.
And such boys, there are 15, or even more.
The little writer got here, and he had to stop and spit for a little while.
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Such a terrible truth, Dans who came to the police station actually came out with it.
The meticulous method of each step of the crime, the location where the body is hidden, and the complete statement of everything.
But strangely, Dans could not say the motive for the crime, the name of the victim.
Even when the lawyer reminded himself not to reveal too much, Dans didn't care.
It is believed that for the purpose of justice, the truth should be revealed to the police.
Xiaobian has seen so many films, like Dans so arrogant, can not find another one.
Here, even though the police found countless mutilated bones from Dans' residence.
Since there were no charges from the victim's family, there was no way to convict Dans.
Even if you find accurate information and falsely claim that you are mentally ill, you can escape responsibility.
In other words, the progress of the whole case must be led by Dans by the nose.
The story that follows is not complicated.
On one side is the police investigating Dans' constant disclosure of key information.
On the other side, Dans brought in a biographer to pour out his inner truth.
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Dans became a necrophile because of his childhood.
The divorce of his parents made him feel lonely, but after seeing the body of his grandfather who loved him, he suddenly felt a sense of refreshment in his heart.
Later, when he almost drowned, the boy who rescued him molested him, and he began to rely on the feeling of being with the boy.
However, his feelings are not smooth, the straight man he likes does not answer his love, and the lonely moment comes to a dewy marriage.
Until one cosplay, he found that instead of liking living people, it was better to control corpses...
In the years that followed, he began to look in the mirror alone, dressing himself up as a corpse.
Then vent your lust in the face of your own fruit body.
And that's not all, after an appointment, he did something to a young man...
Xiaobian feels that Dans is really perverted to the extreme, but Dans does not think so, thinking that he is innocent.
He sees himself as a good person, and he is actually doing a good deed.
After all, it's all a tragedy of the times.
In 1978, the Iran-Iraq War, oil shortages, Western society fell into a new round of economic crisis.
Young people who come to London cannot easily get a job and start a stable life.
Countless single men have become homeless, even addicts, sleeping in the streets.
Naturally, they would accept the invitation of the good man Dans to come to his quarters.
As for the poor homosexuals, the repressive social environment, they can only talk to each other in small bars.
Dans is very good at flirting with men, and finding prey is very simple.
In Dans's mind, he was just helping these men and ending his poor life prematurely.
Of course, there were also people who escaped the disaster, and Dans only said that it was a nightmare after they drank too much.
Or play a bit of SM, but the operation is a bit extreme.
Even if a victim finds the police, the policemen who are vegetarian in the corpse are treated as a discord between same-sex couples.
At this point in the story, Dans, as a perverted killer, is enough to be spurned by thousands of people.
But even more frightening is the attitude of the authorities towards the case.
In order to save money and calm public opinion, the higher authorities ordered the police to stop the investigation.
Of the 15 victims Dans described, only 6 were identified.
Even when families of victims come to their doorstep, they cannot be added to the list of victims.
A notorious case was settled.
After watching the film, the editor had a similar feeling to "The Silent Truth".
Although the result was upheld, there was no sense of comfort.
The entire film does not focus on the focus of the story on hunting.
Instead, it shows that the police are helplessly investigating in the tearing of public opinion and superior pressure.
The story of Dans is also not restored in too many pictorial details.
Rather, it comes calmly from the mouth of the emotionless Dans himself, which is even more chilling.
Even in the end, he was concerned about why the biography did not bear his own name and leave it in the annals of history.
Why did the victim lose his life, but also to be unnamed in the story, losing his identity.
And murderers like Dans, there is more than one.
Like the media in the film, they only care about the outcome of the trial, but do not discover why Dans became like this.
None of this would have happened if the parents had been a little more caring at the beginning and the feelings had been properly guided.
But fortunately, there was a law that made him stop his hand.