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An uninvolving courtroom drama
This is a weak series,. The entire series constantly wants to tell us we're watching something deep and profound and meaningful...but it isn't. It's a slog. It stops being interesting around the 9th episode and then just bores us to death for the remaining 6. It easily could have been 12 episodes, though since there's little action - just people talking and talking and talking - even at 12 episodes it would still be a slow watch!
At the center is a smug, self-righteous p.o.s Prosecutor who - spoiler - doesn't get what he deserves. Had he been convicted and made to serve 4 or more years in prison - like how he convicted the student 14 years earlier - I would have been delighted and happy. But he wasn't. F%&k that guy! So to have to sit through 15 episodes of this wanker spouting off about THE LAW and how it's the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN SOCIETY blah blah blah, and this and that, and uphold for the state, yadda yadda, yadda...I was just really sick of his hypocrisy and wanted him to go to jail. They got the entire story wrong!
Production values, acting, music, cinematography were all good...but the writing and directing were mediocre. Honestly, the entire story is kinda backwards for someone living in the USA. I don't know China and how "modern" they've become in their thinking...but the whole idea of Justifiable Defense was treated as something new and "golly gee whiz" we should examine this thing called "Justifiable defense and figure it out!". Seriously, I thought initially this series was maybe set in the 1970's...but it's not, it's a modern story and the writers and director treat the whole idea of "JD" as something profound and so they give too damn many monologues to the Procuratorate to discuss it. Enough repetition already. I mean heck, the idea of Justifiable defense/homicide is so blase to us in the states that we think nothing of when they release a woman killing a dude in a parking lot with her gun since he continually came at her in a threatening manner. She shot and killed the guy 'cause he was threatening her verbally and moving towards her to "possibly harm her"...but .he didn't even touch her, and had no weapon. But she shot and killed him and they called it "Justifiable.". She was in jail for all of 2 days. Crazy, yeah?
So you can see how watching 15 episodes of people debating the pros and cons of JD would bore me.
Anyways, it's UNSATISFYING because the Prosecutor should have gone to jail and he didn't. Unhappy ending.
At the center is a smug, self-righteous p.o.s Prosecutor who - spoiler - doesn't get what he deserves. Had he been convicted and made to serve 4 or more years in prison - like how he convicted the student 14 years earlier - I would have been delighted and happy. But he wasn't. F%&k that guy! So to have to sit through 15 episodes of this wanker spouting off about THE LAW and how it's the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN SOCIETY blah blah blah, and this and that, and uphold for the state, yadda yadda, yadda...I was just really sick of his hypocrisy and wanted him to go to jail. They got the entire story wrong!
Production values, acting, music, cinematography were all good...but the writing and directing were mediocre. Honestly, the entire story is kinda backwards for someone living in the USA. I don't know China and how "modern" they've become in their thinking...but the whole idea of Justifiable Defense was treated as something new and "golly gee whiz" we should examine this thing called "Justifiable defense and figure it out!". Seriously, I thought initially this series was maybe set in the 1970's...but it's not, it's a modern story and the writers and director treat the whole idea of "JD" as something profound and so they give too damn many monologues to the Procuratorate to discuss it. Enough repetition already. I mean heck, the idea of Justifiable defense/homicide is so blase to us in the states that we think nothing of when they release a woman killing a dude in a parking lot with her gun since he continually came at her in a threatening manner. She shot and killed the guy 'cause he was threatening her verbally and moving towards her to "possibly harm her"...but .he didn't even touch her, and had no weapon. But she shot and killed him and they called it "Justifiable.". She was in jail for all of 2 days. Crazy, yeah?
So you can see how watching 15 episodes of people debating the pros and cons of JD would bore me.
Anyways, it's UNSATISFYING because the Prosecutor should have gone to jail and he didn't. Unhappy ending.
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