Suggested by a friend we decided to watch this series together (6 of us and only when we are all together), after searching about the genre of the series I felt it could be among those that I may enjoy watching.
After watching the first episode, I couldn’t wait for them and our next Movie-Night, so I started reading about the series and after some initiation, they were convinced to have it as a movie marathon and after watching the 2nd two episodes in one night, the last 4 episodes were watched in a single night.
The entire series started with a slow pace and lots of filler and suddenly the twist came in the second half of the last episode with its highest climactic twist in the last 5 minutes of the show! Pretty bizarre.
My friends said the entire series could be done in an hour movie, but personally I loved how the author and the series started slow and gradually increased the pacing to its climax from end of 4th episode towards the end. Yet no one could realize the protagonist character in the series.
One striking quote that took my attention was in the last episode; the conversation between Chief Police Vickery and Detective Richard Willis;
Chief Vickery: He Gonna Crack?
Detective Willis: Almost everyone does if you push them hard enough. Even if they are innocent!
And I remembered countries specially under totalitarian governments and how such confessions are taken under physical and/or psychological torture led the innocents to their death executions.
The genre is Psychological, Crime, Thriller – amongst my favorite – and this one is more focused on the effect of Dysfunctional Family and conditions like Personality Disorders, Munchausen’s by Proxy, Self-defeating Behaviors, and PTSD. The portray of such situations and how wrong doings of parents can influence the beliefs and behavior of the children, were fantastic.
Amma: My friend says the cuts are already there, the knifes just releases them.
Personally, and specially lately that I came back to topics of psychology and reading more on Carl Jung, I can see the heavy responsibility of parents both mothers and – to me even more – fathers. Also to note that how an incident in life, mainly caused by one or both parents, can affect negatively on a child.
Detective Willis: I don’t think you are bad. Ok? I think one bad thing happened, and you played the rest of your life on it.
I believe and always suggest that it is very important for one to go and search for the cause and roots of his/her feelings, beliefs and behaviors. Many of us are carrying beliefs that are not healthy and instead of trying to stop it from acting upon us and those around us (specially those we care the most), unconsciously we let those beliefs to spread and influence us and those we care in a very negative way.
John: People think I did it because I cry about it.
Camille: You’re a guy. Guys aren’t allowed to have soft emotions.
And in the process – as we grow up –, we try to create more beliefs around ourselves to protect our feelings from the hurt and pain we receive from outside, buy building walls of belief systems around ourselves.
Camille: It is safer to be feared than loved.
Honestly, if we be able to track down some of our behaviors and attitudes, we learn about our root beliefs and how we act upon them. By then we will have a better understanding of ourselves, our parents and even strangers. We even could sympathize and at some points empathize with them – even strangers by understanding the beliefs behind other’s behavior.
for one to learn about these stuffs, books, videos, courses and even coaches, consultants and therapies maybe necessary. It is by awareness that we can spread more positivity and deflect or avoid spreading negativity in our lives and the lives of those around us.
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom” – Lao Tzu