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›Television Review: Mindhunter (Season 1, 2017)@drax329d
Serial killers are an exceptionally rich inspiration for authors of crime films or TV series, but precisely because of this, they are overused and come with a truckload of irritating clichés. One of the rare series that attempts to engage with this phenomenon in a somewhat original way is Mindhunter, which, in its quest to be “different”, returns to the source. And that source, at least in the modern understanding of the term, is John E. Douglas, a former FBI agent known for co-creating the modern concept of the serial killer and criminal profiling with his colleague Robert Ressler in the 1970s. Douglas, who served as a technical consultant for the authors of The Silence of the Lambs, retired from the FBI in 1995 and that same year chronicled his experiences in the book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. The most fascinating part of the book isn’t so much Douglas’s account of his own life and career, but his detailed analysis of the most notorious serial murder cases and the years-long conversations he held with their perpetrators in prisons and hospitals to uncover their motives—or to equip himself and other researchers with tools to predict, prevent, and solve crimes.
Douglas has had an extraordinary influence on Hollywood over the past decades, serving as inspiration for numerous characters in films and TV shows about criminal profiling, most famously with Criminal Minds. It was only a matter of time before Douglas himself and his book became the subject of a screen adaptation, and Netflix provided the answer with Mindhunter, a highly promoted television series. It was an exceptionally ambitious project bolstered by the prestige of David Fincher, a renowned filmmaker whose work includes films about serial killers, who produced the first season and directed several episodes, including the pilot. With such talent, an intriguing premise, and Netflix’s reputation as the streaming king, it wasn’t hard to expect Mindhunter to become a hit, backed by overwhelmingly positive reviews.
The first season of Mindhunter, which has 10 episodes, was written primarily by British writer Joe Penhall, whose adaptation diverged significantly from the details of Douglas’s source material. This included the character of Douglas himself, renamed Holden Ford (played by Jonathan Groff). The story begins in 1977, as the FBI adjusts to the post-Hoover era and dramatic societal changes the old director had stubbornly tried to stifle. Holden is a young, ambitious agent with a psychology degree and hostage negotiation experience, whose job includes teaching local police forces FBI investigative techniques. Ford joins Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), an older agent who recently founded the FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit (BSU), and the two hatch the idea of interviewing serial killers during their travels to gather scientific data—not just assisting local investigations but also conversing with the killers themselves. Despite their superior Sheppard’s (Cotter Smith) skepticism toward the initiative, their efforts begin to bear fruit, and eventually the project is approved, with psychiatrist Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) joining the team as a consultant. Holden, however, increasingly struggles with success and the corrosive toll that immersion in unimaginable atrocities takes on his private life.
Mindhunter’s strengths start with Fincher’s direction; the four episodes he helmed are exceptionally well-directed, establishing a distinctive atmosphere from the start through clever use of suggestive imagery and editing, a style seamlessly continued throughout the remaining episodes. The narrative structure, meanwhile, strives for originality by departing from the norms of police procedurals like CSI. Ford and Tench participate in investigations and solve crimes, but not in the elegant, “tidy” way typical of the genre; many intriguing cases remain unresolved, as they would in real life. The soundtrack, built around 1970s pop hits, further enhances the atmosphere and occasionally serves as a sly ironic commentary on the proceedings.
The show’s biggest asset, however, is its focus on the very thing that defined the source material: the profiles and conversations with serial killers, whose real-life counterparts remain intact in the adaptation. Among them, Ed Kemper stands out—a man whose necrophilia-driven murders starkly contrasted with his affable demeanour and ability to befriend both police officers and FBI interrogators, including Douglas, who described him as the most intelligent and agreeable of all his interviewees. In the series, Kemper is played by Cameron Britton, who masterfully contrasts Kemper’s menacing presence with a mechanical, agreeable voice.
Such scenes, however, are too few. To pad out the 10-episode content, producers overemphasize the private lives of the investigative team members. Predictably, this leads to the characters—and the show itself—falling into irritating clichés. Ford is paired with Debbie (Hannah Gross), an attractive “hippie intellectual” who serves no purpose beyond symbolising contemporary social changes or fulfilling explicit sex scenes to meet the quota of content modern prestige TV series apparently couldn’t do without. Tench fares worse: McCallany, a master of character acting, struggles to elevate a poorly written character bogged down by clichéd family dynamics—the conservative old-school agent must have a traditional family, but fate dealt him a foster son who turns out to be autistic. Even worse is Dr. Carr, played by the attractive Anna Torv (known for her role in Fringe), whose lesbian identity feels tacked on solely to meet an LGBT quota. Amid all this, the serial killers and the protagonists’ professional work become less important than whether Ford, abandoned by his girlfriend at season’s end, will discover he prefers Dr. Carr and help her “play for another team”. When topped off with an absurd, gratingly pumped-up emotional cliffhanger, the series that should have been a masterful blend of drama and true crime begins to resemble a Mexican telenovela. The creators of Mindhunter *aced a far tougher challenge in the second season than they did in the first.
RATING: 5/10 (++)
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›(Esp/Eng) Mindhunter: Review without spoilers@aibi93933d
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Mindhunter is a Netflix series of the police genre whose main premise develops from two FBI agents (Holden Ford and Bill Tench) along with forensic psychologist Wendy Carr, propose a revolutionary system never seen before to catch serial killers and violent criminals: Behavioral sciences which, consist of elaborating psychological profiles of the subjects based on information obtained from crime scenes. With these profiles, they manage to find a series of killers more easily for their subsequent capture and what is mainly evaluated is: Why do they do what they do? Who would do something like that? Who fits this profile that we put together based on these data? This is Mindhunter, hunting the killer minds based on their psychology and environmental factors.
Mindhunter es una serie de Netflix del género policial cuya premisa principal se desarrolla a partir de que dos agentes del FBI (Holden Ford y Bill Tench) junto a la psicóloga forense Wendy Carr, proponen un sistema revolucionario nunca antes visto para atrapar asesinos en serie y criminales violentos: Las ciencias de la conducta las cuales, consisten en elaborar perfiles psicológicos de los sujetos en base a información obtenida de las escenas de los crímenes. Con estos perfiles, logran dar con una serie de asesinos mas fácilmente para su posterior captura y lo que se evalúa principalmente es: ¿Por qué hacen lo que hacen ? ¿Quién haría algo así? ¿Quién encaja en este perfil que armamos en base a estos datos? Esto es Mindhunter , cazando las mentes asesinas en base a su psicología y factores ambientales.
To begin with, the series is based on the book by Jhon Douglas, an American criminologist who, in the production, is Agent Ford. Although the names were changed, Netflix adapted the writing quite well, although with differences to add more drama (Yes, I couldn't help but compare the book with the series).
The characters of Ford and Tench are the ones that add weight to the plot. They take the project forward by interviewing the most famous serial killers of the 70-80's like Ed Kemper, David Berkowistz, they showed BTK as well, the Atlanta Monster and even the cult criminal Charles Manson. Based on the testimonies of these killers, they observe what factors were necessary to turn simple people into sadistic killers and thus have certain references to start working on profiling in the behavioral sciences.
Para comenzar, la serie esta basada en el libro de Jhon Douglas, un criminólogo estadounidense que en la producción, es el agente Ford. Si bien los nombres se cambiaron, Netflix adaptó bastante bien el escrito aunque con diferencias para agregarle mas dramatismo (Si, no pude evitar compara el libro con la serie).
Los personajes de Ford y Tench son los que le dan peso a la trama. Llevan el proyecto adelante entrevistando a los asesinos en serie mas famosos de los 70-80 como Ed Kemper, David Berkowistz, mostraron a BTK también , el monstruo de Atlanta e incluso al criminal sectario Charles Manson. En base a los testimonios de estos asesinos, observan que factores fueron necesarios para convertir a simples personas en asesinos sádicos y así tener ciertas referencias para comenzar a trabajar elaborando perfiles en las ciencias de la conducta.
I must say that it is the best criminology series I saw. Very well developed, dynamic but slow pace with many metaphors included that gave the touch. It is not only stagnant in the sciences of behavior but it is deeper: It reflects social conflicts of the time as ra¨¨ism, emotional conflicts of the characters, absurd bureaucracy that slow down investigations and best of all, is that it does not focus only on one perspective. The series advances from the perspective of the victim and the victimizer. One sees one thing one way and the other expresses his motives as to why he does what he does and here is the controversial issue of applying this science at the time but without it, no criminal could be caught today.
I quote from Douglas' book: With Douglas we understand why there are monsters. Understanding their nature helps justice to be done.
Debo decir que es la mejor serie de criminología que vi . Muy bien desarrollada, a paso dinámico pero pausado con muchas metáforas incluidas que le dieron el toque. No se estanca solo en las ciencias de las conductas sino que es mas profunda: Refleja conflictos sociales de la época como el ra¨¨ismo, conflictos emocionales de los personajes, burocracia absurda que relentizan investigaciones y lo mejor de todo, es que no se enfoca solo en una perspectiva. La serie avanza desde la perspectiva de la víctima y del victimario. Uno ve una cosa de una manera y el otro expresa sus motivos de porque hace lo que hace y eh aquí, lo controversial del asunto de aplicar esta ciencia en su época pero sin esto, hoy en día no se podría capturar a ningún criminal.
Cito textual del libro de Douglas: Con Douglas entendemos porque hay monstruos. Entender su naturaleza ayuda a que se haga justicia.
The characters I liked the most were Bill and Holden. Their weight in the plot is imposing and it shows how working alongside these types of monsters affects them in their day to day lives.
The story of Tench's son, although it was a Netflix addition that was not in the book, was perfect to give more depth to his emotional conflict. On the other hand, Holden goes from being someone innocent to someone who knows the evil in the world and fears nothing anymore. The character that didn't make much sense to me was Wendy. In real life, she made important contributions in forensic nursing and the psychology of it but I feel that in the series, she was more filler than anything else (I feel that even the serial killers had more relevance than her). I wanted to look at it from the point of view that she serves as an emotional support for Tench but not even that because it was very short-lived. I also approached it from the point of view that it reflected another social problem of the time but it had nothing to do with the main premise (well partly yes but I didn't find much connection). Wendy wasn't given as magnificent a story and value as Holden and Tench. Anyway, I would have liked to see more development of the life and work of Dr. Anne Wolbert Burgess (the real life Wendy). In that sense, the series lacked a lot.
Los personajes que mas me gustaron fueron Bill y Holden. Su peso en la trama es imponente y se muestra como trabajar junto a este tipo de monstruos les afecta en su día a día.
La historia del hijo de Tench si bien fue un agregado de Netflix que no estaba en el libro, fue perfecto para darle mas profundidad al conflicto emocional de este. Por otra parte, Holden pasa de ser alguien inocente a alguien que conoce la maldad del mundo y ya a nada le teme. Al personaje que no le encontré mucho sentido fue al de Wendy. En la vida real, hizo aportes importantes en la enfermería forense y la psicología de la misma pero siento que en la serie, fue mas relleno que otra cosa (Siento que hasta los asesinos en serie tenían mas relevancia que ella). Quise verlo desde el punto de vista que sirve de apoyo emocional para Tench pero ni eso porque fue algo muy efímero. También lo abordé desde el punto de vista de que reflejaba otra problemática social de la época pero no tenía nada que ver con la premisa principal (Bueno en parte si pero no encontré mucha conexión). A Wendy no le dieron una historia tan magnifica y de valor como a Holden y Tench. En fin, me hubiera gustado que desarrollen más la vida y obra la doctora Anne Wolbert Burgess (La Wendy de la vida real). En ese sentido, le faltó mucho a la serie.
I totally recommend it. A series that shows the pioneers in this type of science and that thanks to them, today, many criminals are caught without falling into false accusations as it used to be done before, when the psychology of the suspect is not evaluated and they are simply sentenced without knowing because he did what he did or if he was guilty or innocent.
Through observation and profiling, mind hunters are able to bring justice to many victims.
Quote from the book "Mindhunter":
***However, twenty-five years of observation also tells me that Criminals are "made" rather than "born," which means that at some point someone who exerted a profoundly negative influence might instead have exerted a profoundly positive one. So what I truly believe is that, in addition to more money, police, and prisons, what we need is more love. This is not being simplistic, it is the core of the problem.*** ___Greetings and thanks for reading me.
La recomiendo totalmente. Una serie que muestra a los pioneros en este tipo de ciencias y que gracias a ellos, hoy en día, muchos criminales son atrapados sin caer en acusaciones falsas como solio hacerse antes que no se evalúa la psicología del sospechoso y simplemente se lo condenaba sin saber porque hacia lo que hacia o si era culpable o inocente.
Por medio de la observación y elaboración de perfiles los cazadores de mentes logran hacer justicia para muchas victimas.
Cita del libro "Mindhunter":
>***No obstante, veinticinco años de observación me dicen también que los criminales «se hacen» más que «nacen», lo que significa que en algún momento alguien que ejerció una influencia profundamente negativa podría haber ejercido en cambio una profundamente positiva. Así que lo que creo de verdad es que, además de más dinero, policía y cárceles, lo que necesitamos es más amor. No es ser simplista, es el núcleo del problema.*** ___Saludos y gracias por leerme.
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›Mindhunter - Season 2 Review@readingdanvers2179d
Wow. This season was fantastic. Yeah, I binged the show in a couple of days in between work shifts. I couldn't go to sleep, I needed one more episode. Yet this season was different than the previous one. Although our three leads are back, Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, Holt McCallany is back as Bill Tench and Anna Torv is back as Wendy Carr. The three are in charge of the Behavioral Analysis Unit in the F.B.I. their own fresh experiment in trying to understand serial killers. Now it is less fresh as the show moves forward in time and in method. But, I mean that in a good way.
This season is fairly different than the previous one. Gone are the days of road school or of single brutal murders. Now those who interviewed serial killers, are after serial killers. All while continuing their interviewing project. We get glimpse into future killers that the show will deal with and unsolved murders and how the police and the F.B.I. work differently. Also, Tehnch's personal life is suddenly super-duper interesting. Carr's personal life failed to leave an impression on me, but I feel that I payoff will come next season. If we'll get a next season. I really hope we will get another season.
There are so many great and different directions the show can go in that I really hope that despite all of the delays, we will get another season.
The acting is great, the setting is great and the show is so well crafted, and it is just so good, that I really hope for a season really soon. Someone needs to tell David Fincher to put this show back in priority. You can't just leave something so great because a few opportunities have emerged.
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›Mindhunter – Season 1 Review@readingdanvers2183d
Mindhunter was created by Joe Penhall who is also the executive produced of the show along with David Fincher and Charlize Theron and a few others. The show is based on a book called Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. The show itself follows the early days of the Behavioral Science Unit as it was formed.
Jonathan Groff plays Holden Ford who, after an incident on the field, is teamed up to help Bill Tench (played by Holt McCallany) with traveling school. They go from town to town and teach police officers about some F.B.I. techniques. When the police asks them for a help with a particular shocking case, Ford gets the idea that they should interview convicted serial killers (who didn't have a name then) to see what makes them operate and how. Wendy Carr (who is played by Anna Torv) is a psychology professor who helps them with their research as she is the first one who believes that this will be important for the world.
This season takes place in the late 70s. It focuses mainly on their interviews with Ed Kemper. Through the insight that they get through him they manage to arrest several people involved with several murder cases. But what is the price for such a work? And how do others see it in a time when criminal psychology wasn't a popular topic?
I have to say that the biggest downside of the show is that it focuses too much on the agents personal lives. I get it that the show wants to show the emotional impact of working on such terrible cases and with such terrible people, but it is mostly boring and uninteresting. Ford's girlfriend and Tench's family, despite their importance, are not a real draw.
The crimes however are very interesting. The show feels almost like a documentary as it doesn't focus on only one thing. There are other murderer and other problems that comes up, are shown and then get pushed back to the background, as it so often happens in real life. But, almost always, they come back in a most interesting way. I binged the season in two days. It is that fascinating in my opinion.
Jonathan Groff is the heart of the show. He moves all of the pieces most of the time and the emotional transformation that he goes through is the most noticeable one. He goes through more than one change and it is fascinating to watch. Tench is a cliché of a tough and yet nice guy who doesn't talk much. Carr is also a cliché of a super smart independent woman, but she is so well acted that it doesn't really bother me. Plus the changes in her work make up for the cliché, making her a pretty brilliant character. So the acting is superb. So it the 70s setting. It is subtle, but you never think that this is present times. So the acting and the setting are pretty spot on.
This is not a regular crime show, it doesn't really follow the same format. But, once you get into it, it is really hard to stop watching.
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›Mindhunter season 1 - "Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people"@dedicatedguy2248d
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David Fincher is the man behind Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.When David Fincher moves, he doesn't do it to please or content himself, but to move seas and mountains and upset the minds of the spectator.
A sort of obsession with the psychology of real or invented characters capable of vileness and actions often despicable but always motivated by emotional shocks as remote as irredeemable.
So it's not surprising to see in the Netflix catalogue a serial work like Mindhunter where Fincher digs into the FBI's past to talk about those psychotic and sociopathic minds who are responsible for the bloodiest crimes in American history.
Mindhunter's first season had everyone on board. A sumptuous staging, a pure class, a tight but slow pace story that drew its strength from powerful dialogues and calm but borderline characters. The FBI was changing and the behavioral analysis unit was taking its first steps.
Fincher tells us of that genesis, of that very difficult construction of a new way of doing investigations, of putting the psychology of the killer, of the serial killer to use a term now fashionable but then unknown, of using the technique of profiling, today so much abused but a chimera in those years.
And then Fincher, almost morbidly through the figure of Agent Ford, meddles in the meanders of the mind of those subjects as dangerous as banally predictable if well understood, as ruthless as fragilely shaken by difficult childhoods.
The first season had conquered by themes and by the way they were treated.
The second restarted from there confirming all the merits and trying to dig deeper and move forward in a world where profiling was finally about to become the rule.
Ford and Tench are required to change pace and take to the field this season leaving Wendy isolated to study patterns and try to define new profiles after the painstaking data collection carried out in the previous months.
If Mindhunter manages to fit another special piece in her mosaic in this second season it's in developing the characters of Bill Tench and Wendy Carr, thanks also to an extraordinary Torv and McCallany.
The depth that Fincher manages to achieve is unparalleled. And it is well suited to this fine examination of these 2 characters the restlessness and the myth of Charles Manson to which you only need to appear 10 minutes to create an unparalleled wait.
5 episodes to wait for Manson, 9 episodes to wait for news about the monster of Atlanta, 2 seasons to spread clues about BTK.
Lots of meat on the fire but cooked on a low heat.
Mindhunter still shines with the usual class but a few creaks can be heard.
Ford's panic attacks vanish unexpectedly.
Dr. Carr loses minute as the finale approaches.
The investigation is too slow and watered down.
The lower space reserved for analysis of serial killers' minds and dialogue with them is not replaced by equally interesting dynamics.
In short, it lacks the extra flicker we would have expected.
The sensation is that of having admired a formidable painting that lacks the master's brilliant brushstrokes.
Fortunately, the third season is already in the pipeline and nothing and nobody will dissuade us from thinking that Fincher will reserve his brushstrokes for us by then, those of the greats, those of the perverse and brilliant minds.
David Fincher è l'uomo dietro Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network, Zodiac, Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button.Quando David Fincher si muove non lo fa per accontentare o accontentarsi ma per smuovere mari e monti e turbare le menti dello spettatore.
Una sorta di ossessione per la psicologia di personaggi veri o inventati capaci di nefandezze e azioni spesso spregevoli ma sempre motivate da scossoni emotivi tanto remoti quanto irredimibili.
E allora non sorprende affatto scorgere tra il catalogo Netflix un'opera seriale come Mindhunter dove Fincher scava nel passato dell'FBI per parlare di quelle menti psicotiche e sociopatiche artefici dei delitti più sanguinosi della storia d'america.
La prima stagione di Mindhunter aveva messo daccordo tutti. Una messa in scena sontuosa, una classe purissima, un racconto serrato ma dal ritmo lento che traeva la sua forza fra dialoghi potentissimi e da personaggi pacati ma borderline. L'FBI stava cambiando e l'unità analisi comportamentale muoveva i primi passi.
Fincher ci racconta di quella genesi, di quella difficilissima costruzione di un nuovo modo di fare indagini, di mettere al centro delle stesse la psicologia del killer, del serial killer per usare un termine ora di moda ma allora sconosciuto, di usare la tecnica del profiling, oggi tanto abusato ma una chimera in quegli anni.
E allora Fincher quasi morbosamente attraverso la figura dell'agente Ford si immischia nei meandri della mente di quei soggetti tanto pericolosi quanto banalmente prevedibili se ben compresi, tanto spietati quanto fragilmente sconquassati da infanzie difficili.
La prima stagione aveva conquistato per temi trattati e per come essi fossero stati trattati.
La seconda riparte da li confermando tutti i pregi e provando a scavallare ulteriormente e muovere passi avanti in un mondo dove il profiling stava finalmente per diventare la regola.
Ford e Tench sono tenuti a cambiare passo e scendere sul campo in questa stagione lasciando Wendy isolata a studiare pattern e provare a definire nuovi profili in seguito alla certosina raccolta dati effettuata nei mesi addietro.
Se Mindhunter riesce ad incasellare un'altra tassello speciale nel suo mosaico in questa seconda stagione è nello sviluppare stupendamente i personaggi di Bill Tench e di Wendy Carr, grazie anche ad una Torv ed un McCallany straordinari.
La profondità che Fincher riesce a raggiungere è ineguagliabile. E ben si accorda a questa fine disamina di questi 2 personaggi l'irrequietezza ed il mito di Charles Manson a cui basta apparire 10 minuti per creare un'attesa senza pari.
5 puntate ad attendere Manson, 9 puntate ad attendere news sul mostro di Atlanta, 2 stagioni a disseminare indizi su BTK.
Tanta carne al fuoco ma cucinata a fuoco lento.
Mindhunter brilla ancora con la solita classe ma qualche scricchiolio si avverte.
Gli attacchi di panico di Ford svaniscono inaspettatamente.
La dottoressa Carr perde minutaggio con l'avvicinarsi del finale.
Le indagini risultano troppo lente e annacquate.
Lo spazio inferiore riservato all'analisi delle menti dei serial killer e ai dialoghi con loro non viene sostituito da dinamiche altrettanto interessanti.
Manca insomma quel guizzo in più che ci saremmo aspettati.
La sensazione è quella di aver ammirato un quadro formidabile a cui è mancala la pennellata geniale del maestro.
Fortunatamente la terza stagione è già in cantiere e niente e nessuno ci dissuaderà dal pensare che Fincher ci riserverà per allora la sua pennellata, quella dei grandi, quella delle menti perverse e geniali.
›Mindhunter: dentro e dietro la mente di un serial killer@serialfiller2439d
David Fincher è l'uomo dietro Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network, Zodiac, Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button.
Quando David Fincher si muove non lo fa per accontentare o accontentarsi ma per smuovere mari e monti e turbare le menti dello spettatore.
Una sorta di ossessione per la psicologia di personaggi veri o inventati capaci di nefandezze e azioni spesso spregevoli ma sempre motivate da scossoni emotivi tanto remoti quanto irredimibili.
E allora non sorprende affatto scorgere tra il catalogo Netflix un'opera seriale come Mindhunter dove Fincher scava nel passato dell'FBI per parlare di quelle menti psicotiche e sociopatiche artefici dei delitti più sanguinosi della storia d'america.
La prima stagione di Mindhunter aveva messo daccordo tutti. Una messa in scena sontuosa, una classe purissima, un racconto serrato ma dal ritmo lento che traeva la sua forza fra dialoghi potentissimi e da personaggi pacati ma borderline. L'FBI stava cambiando e l'unità analisi comportamentale muoveva i primi passi.
Fincher ci racconta di quella genesi, di quella difficilissima costruzione di un nuovo modo di fare indagini, di mettere al centro delle stesse la psicologia del killer, del serial killer per usare un termine ora di moda ma allora sconosciuto, di usare la tecnica del profiling, oggi tanto abusato ma una chimera in quegli anni.
E allora Fincher quasi morbosamente attraverso la figura dell'agente Ford si immischia nei meandri della mente di quei soggetti tanto pericolosi quanto banalmente prevedibili se ben compresi, tanto spietati quanto fragilmente sconquassati da infanzie difficili.
La prima stagione aveva conquistato per temi trattati e per come essi fossero stati trattati.
La seconda riparte da li confermando tutti i pregi e provando a scavallare ulteriormente e muovere passi avanti in un mondo dove il profiling stava finalmente per diventare la regola.
Ford e Tench sono tenuti a cambiare passo e scendere sul campo in questa stagione lasciando Wendy isolata a studiare pattern e provare a definire nuovi profili in seguito alla certosina raccolta dati effettuata nei mesi addietro.
Se Mindhunter riesce ad incasellare un'altra tassello speciale nel suo mosaico in questa seconda stagione è nello sviluppare stupendamente i personaggi di Bill Tench e di Wendy Carr, grazie anche ad una Torv ed un McCallany straordinari.
La profondità che Fincher riesce a raggiungere è ineguagliabile. E ben si accorda a questa fine disamina di questi 2 personaggi l'irrequietezza ed il mito di Charles Manson a cui basta apparire 10 minuti per creare un'attesa senza pari.
5 puntate ad attendere Manson, 9 puntate ad attendere news sul mostro di Atlanta, 2 stagioni a disseminare indizi su BTK.
Tanta carne al fuoco ma cucinata a fuoco lento.
Mindhunter brilla ancora con la solita classe ma qualche scricchiolio si avverte.
Gli attacchi di panico di Ford svaniscono inaspettatamente.
La dottoressa Carr perde minutaggio con l'avvicinarsi del finale.
Le indagini risultano troppo lente e annacquate.
Lo spazio inferiore riservato all'analisi delle menti dei serial killer e ai dialoghi con loro non viene sostituito da dinamiche altrettanto interessanti.
Manca insomma quel guizzo in più che ci saremmo aspettati.
La sensazione è quella di aver ammirato un quadro formidabile a cui è mancala la pennellata geniale del maestro.
Fortunatamente la terza stagione è già in cantiere e niente e nessuno ci dissuaderà dal pensare che Fincher ci riserverà per allora la sua pennellata, quella dei grandi, quella delle menti perverse e geniali.
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›Mindhunter Netflix Series Review@trumpman2731d
As you might know from my and ruth's posts from yesterday, it's been heavily snowing here and we have been somewhat stranded. So, we have spent a good part of the day watching Mindhunter from Netflix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZCfRD_zWE
We are already at episode 8 and there's only two to go until we are finished. The series is slow at first and a bit "boring" and it continues in a slow, not really exciting pace. Furthermore, there's not much "action" happening, or any real cliff-hangers from episode to episode, but for some weird reason that I can't exactly pinpoint it keeps you hooked in and you will find it really hard not to press the "watch next episode" button.
I really don't know what else to say other than I like it but I don't know why! Highly reccomended, a perfect option if you have been stranded by snow:
(photo by @ruth-girl)Ok, off for dinner and for the next episode.
Good night humans
›MINDHUNTER (2017 TV Series): Inside the mind of serial killers.@martinmcfly2828d
Mindhunter is a story of cops and murderers where there is hardly any action or suspense. It's an office thriller and machine cafes, not alleys and guns. The criminals are persecuted with words and the shootings take the form of dialogue. There is a lot of talk about atrocious murders, but these are not shown on the screen. If we make a parallel with the filmography of David Fincher, the main director of the show, Mindhunter is more similar to Zodiac than to Seven.
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Until the arrival of Hannibal, the subgenre police of serial killers was already overexploited and nothing could be gained from it. The very intelligent and refined psychopaths who killed in the most creative and repulsive ways possible had reached the ceiling with Dexter, and it also seemed that the commercial cinema of the 90s had exhausted them.
Mindhunter is not Hannibal, but his reinvention of the subgenre places her in the same position. In this case the series shows two FBI agents taking the first steps to create psychological profiles of sequential killers, as they called them in the late 70's, opting for austerity and intellectual approach. David Fincher being one of its producers, and director of four episodes, comparisons with Zodiac have been inevitable.
In Mindhunter what matters are the consequences that interviews to different serial killers have on agents Bill Tench and Holden Ford. You hardly see any corpse; the actions of these assassins are represented in the dialogues that they themselves have with the agents, and in such a graphic way, that their horror is perfectly present.
That horror ends up impregnating both Tench and, above all, Ford, which is the character around which the whole story revolves. Jonathan Groff interprets it as someone eager to innovate, to try new things, someone with an enthusiasm that manages to carve out his small plot within a bureaucratic machine so reluctant to change as the FBI.
The evolution of James throughout the season is one of the highlights of Mindhunter. He delves too enthusiastically into the study of these serial killers and before the possibility of applying his new knowledge in real cases, that there comes a time when he almost forgets that the victims of these psychopaths are not theoretical, but real, and that he is working with people, not with symbols in academic research.
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The reconciliation between the theory of study and real life is the great dilemma suffered by the three protagonists of the series. Ford believes he is seeing behavior typical of a serial killer everywhere; Tench does everything possible to disconnect from his work, especially because he has his own problems at home, and Wendy Carr, the psychologist who helps them to give academic form to everything, has its own reasons to compartmentalize the different facets of his life.
The psychology of its three protagonists is as important as those of the psychopaths they interview and, in that aspect, Mindhunter is a very intellectual series, in the sense that the most important are the exchanges of ideas between their characters. Holden meets his girlfriend Debbie talking about the sociological theories of Emile Durkheim, and the most vibrant scenes of all the episodes are interrogations and interviews.
Ford and Tench establish a kind of courtship with the assassins to whom they have to extract information making him believe that they empathize with him, that they understand him, even if that leads them to enter some rather dark territories of his own personality. And although they scandalize those who listen to them. There are quite a few discussions about ethics and morality in the series, and about whether they can be objective by letting themselves be guided by their own moral convictions.
This does not mean that Mindhunter is not addictive. Yes it is. The show catches you when you see the excitement of its protagonists when they realize that they are entering unexplored territory, that they are pioneers in the study of the psychology of these murderers. The viewer can gradually get to know them, from Ford's excessive self-confidence to the tired veteran of Tench or what Carr's careful external presentation hides.
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The show has Fincher's very clearly recognizable style, even when the episodes are directed by other directors. There are also some touches of humor, and a revelation in the interpretation of Cameron Britton of Ed Kemper, murderer of college and his own mother, a guy who is presented as someone eloquent, educated, with which it is very easy to start a conversation. And that also represents the danger that Ford and Tench will be absorbed by the monsters they are studying.
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In the end, his more cerebral approach and why someone would obsess in studying these men is what makes the show stand out.
Although Netflix has only confirmed the renewal of Mindhunter for its second season, David Fincher wants the series to have a total of five. In my opinion, if the quality is maintained, they can do as many seasons as they want.
That was all.
See you in the future!
›Reseña/Critica MindHunter@shadowmyst3098d
Cuantas series policiacas han salido en la television, y de estas cuantas tratan sobre perfilar a los delicuentes para atraparlos o a los asesinos seriales. Sin duda existen varias series al respecto una de ellas famosa y con varias temporadas de nombre Mentes Criminales (nombre que le pusieron en latinoamerica). Estas series son solo la "embarrada" de lo que hace el FBI en estados unidos para atrapar a dichos asesinos seriales, ¿pero cuando aun no se sabia descubrir como eran estos delicuentes o como era su forma de pensar?, esa es la premisa que da la serie Mindhunter.
MindHunter es una serie creada por el servicio de streaming Netflix y nos relata la historia de dos agentes del FBI de nombre Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) y Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) que buscan desarrollar esa ciencia psicologica a traves de los criminales mas peligrosos que han atrapado, analizando su mente para saber que fue lo que los motivo a hacer esos atroces crimenes, en una busqueda de aprender, prevenir y atrapar a los asesinos seriales en una epoca donde dicho termino aun no existia.
Edmund Kemper en la vida real (izquierda). Edmund Kemper serie de Netflix (derecha)
En los 70's a los criminales de esta indole se les consideraba simplemente locos y no buscaban el "¿Por qué?" de lo que hacian estos criminales y es en esta epoca donde la serie se encuentra, pero no solo es la ambientación, pues también nos ponen a criminales de la vida real que son parte del co-protragonismo de la serie como lo son Edmund Kemper, Monte Risell, Jerry Brudos, entre otros y experimentar un poco de lo que estos agentes tuvieron que pasar para lograr su investigación, asi poder entender y saber atrapar a futuros asesinos seriales.
Con solo 10 capitulos quedaras intrigado, esperando ansioso la segunda temporada, Mindhunter es una serie que recomiendo mucho y que también demuestra que las series creadas por Netflix son cada vez mejores que atraen al publico e inovando con las tramas de estas mismas.
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