13 reason: confession of a victim

13 Reasons tells the story of a teenage girl who committed suicide by being bullied by her classmates. Different from other films, it records the process of bullying in a retrospective way. Guided by the tapes and maps left by Hannah before her suicide, it is divided into two parallel clues, the past and the reality, interspersed with the opposition between the male leader Clay and several other people's camps and the confrontation between parents and schools. Through Hannah's narration and Clay's search, the truth unfolds bit by bit.

Love, friendship, loneliness, death ... describe delicate and true feelings, so they are not melodramatic. The value of this drama lies in that it tells from the victim's perspective, not criticizing bullying at a shallow level, but trying to show the behavior and emotions of the characters, and trying to explore the reasons behind it and restore a real campus life. The tangled human nature and confusing truth make this American drama appear profound and full.

Even, it may have broken people's stereotype of American drama characters. Shirley is probably the most shameless cheerleader on the screen. There are all kinds of nerds in the play, from Taylor's insight into human nature to Clay's innocence and cuteness. Moreover, the characters it depicts are not flat, but round and changeable. There are 13 reasons for Hannah's death, and these 13 reasons have their own reasons. Everyone participated in this "murder", but not everyone is a completely stubborn villain. As Tony has always stressed, Hannah made her own choice, but you and I, everyone on the tape failed Hannah. We didn't let Hannah know that she had other options. Maybe we can save her life, maybe we can't.

The play is highly completed and the plot logic is reasonable. The emotions of the characters are promoted layer by layer, and the connection is natural, and the ending is logical. Justin and Jessica broke her heart, Alex, Taylor, Courtney and Marcus participated in defaming her reputation, and Bryce destroyed her soul. Disappointment and depression accumulate little by little, and finally lead to a cup of poisoned wine that cannot be spit out.

While emphasizing the psychological process of the victim Hannah, it also used half of the space to describe the life dilemma and psychological changes of the bully after Hannah's death, and all this reached a climax at the last minute, and everyone changed more or less and went to their own endings. Clay and Skye made an appointment to have coffee together. Jessica told her father in tears that Shirley turned herself in, Alex committed suicide, Justin ran away, Taylor hid the gun ... The open ending threw the question to the audience, which was thought-provoking. As a netizen said, Hannah's death is a mirror, reflecting the campus in the play and all kinds of ghosts and gods outside the play.

In the creation of atmosphere, more attention is paid to the contrast between light and shade. While listening to the tape, the man found the "crime scene". Secrets were revealed one by one, but doubts jumped out one by one. The whole film won't know the truth until the end, so it is full of suspense and gloomy colors. The love between Hannah and Clay has brought a touch of brightness to this American drama. If all other plots are deleted, it will be a warm youth campus romance. It is precisely because it is not, the sweet plot is also covered with a touch of sadness.

The beginning of the fifth episode should be the most beautiful scene in blue, with a babbling female voice humming and a lazy male voice looming. In the elegant music, I stepped into the elegant dance floor, and two nervous deer walked into each other's lives step by step, carefully testing each other's minds, waiting for an opportunity-maybe that dance. How I wish the man's fantasy would come true. Learn the dance steps in advance, hold Hannah's hand and hug her waist. There are only two people left on the dance floor, dragging, spinning, gently shaking, and then a natural kiss. The lights hit them, the protagonists are together, and the play is over. But in this love, Hannah will never be there.

Of course, its music, editing and lens performance are also excellent. At the beginning of the third episode, the red sand painting background, rhythmic music and Hannah's quiet story are combined, and the sand painting disappears. Jessica quickly walks up the steps and meets Justin's mother and ex-boyfriend. The lens is fused to the sand painting background, and the wall is shot horizontally to give a quick close-up of the face map, and then fused to Justin's close-up face. Black and yellow oil paints overlap with Justin's white face, forming a disharmonious contrast. At the beginning of the compact, the music and lens language are impeccable, and the family background of Justin's characters is very clear, and the description of the characters can be described as delicate.

However, as a school drama that tries to mix suspense elements, it also has obvious shortcomings.

"Some elements are too repetitive, and some suspense and secrets are too publicity." In the middle of clay, Tony's "unreasonable" plot appeared several times, which shows that the characters have not grown at all and are particularly easy to swing, which is untrue. From the beginning, Hannah made it clear that "if I hadn't fallen in love with Justin, then this story wouldn't have happened." In the last episode of Jessica's party, this sentence pattern has a concentrated explosion. Hannah kept repeating "If I didn't go to the party", "If I didn't get a ride with Shirley" and "I should …". The heavy tragedy makes people feel sad and tired in the gray main color, as if the narrator is a nagging Xianglinsao, which greatly reduces the credibility and plot of the characters on the premise of expecting the parties and hoping for love with Hannah.

In order to portray the characters, the rhythm drags on. Especially when Clay wanted to listen to his own tapes, the role didn't seem to grow. In the episode of 1 1, the hero, Clay, always wears the aura of Wei's protagonist, but still maintains the coward setting of "I dare not listen to my part in the tape, so I'm afraid I'm afraid". The judge is so just when others are talking. When it comes to her sins, she doesn't even dare to listen. She is like a little girl, whining and dawdling. There is a tarot game in the middle, which is very redundant. He ran from Monet cafe to the park, from the park to the cliff, and kept asking Tony meaningless questions, which almost exhausted the enthusiasm of the audience to continue watching.

Did I kill Hannah Baker?

Yes

To tell the truth, I didn't understand why this conversation was taken seriously at first, as if it were artificial. Obviously, everyone on the tape "killed" Hannah. It seems meaningless to ask this sentence. I thought about it. When he asked Tony, he was actually torturing himself repeatedly. Did Clay really forget? Through the narration of previous episodes, many memories of death appeared in his mind. He ignored Hannah's feelings again and again. He masturbated to the photos of Hannah and Courtney. Taylor also hinted that perhaps because he knew he was a sinner, he hesitated and wanted to escape.

After listening to his tape, Clay burst into tears.

Fortunately, the truth revealed by this tape, the romantic imagination of the male host and the perfect soundtrack of the climax barely saved the plot.

Perhaps for this reason, the douban score was once low. However, due to the adaptation of the best-selling book Hannah's Last Words in North America, which laid a broad mass base, and the theme of school bullying made many people scream, IMDb's score was once brushed to 9. 1.