True Detectives (2013)
This TV detective show has been quite a hit the world over. Its story paints a bleak outlook on humanity. Its dialogue is so profound and tears up the fabric of the type of society that man immemorial have tried to develop over the generations. Its nihilistic message is uttered week over week as the detectives go on to detect a series of ritualistic murders involving young children. Whilst they were at it, they also took a jibe at the evangelical Christians who have ulterior motives behind the supposed spreading of God words. The word white thrash repeatedly rings in this show, which uses the backdrop of the eerie countryside of Louisiana in its setting.
The story is told in two timeframes (1995 and 2012, also 2002 when they split) as Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) investigate some gruesome murders as cops initially and later as private investigators.
Woody Harrelson whom most of us came to know the bartender in Cheers in the 80s is a married cop (Marty) with two young daughters but not much of a family man. In the pretext of working overtime, he is out with a mistress. Mathew McConaughey, who is often seen a beach bump more attention from exposing his torso than his acting abilities, have been doing an excellent job in the past few movies that I have seen. Here he is a depressing pessimist who looks at everything from a negative aspect, let it be religion, people or humanity. He has not got over the loss of his young daughter in an accident.
Marty juggles his police work, extracurricular activities and bringing up his daughters. His philandering ways soon comes to his wife's attention and out hell broke loose. It effectively ended Marty and Rustin's partnership.
They unite in 2012 during a police enquiry. They bury their hatchet and continue where they stopped.
The joy of watching this show is not the story but the low down nihilistic dialogue especially by Rustin and the depressingly directionless souls of the dwellers of the interior of the most advanced country on the planet.
Woody Harrelson whom most of us came to know the bartender in Cheers in the 80s is a married cop (Marty) with two young daughters but not much of a family man. In the pretext of working overtime, he is out with a mistress. Mathew McConaughey, who is often seen a beach bump more attention from exposing his torso than his acting abilities, have been doing an excellent job in the past few movies that I have seen. Here he is a depressing pessimist who looks at everything from a negative aspect, let it be religion, people or humanity. He has not got over the loss of his young daughter in an accident.
Marty juggles his police work, extracurricular activities and bringing up his daughters. His philandering ways soon comes to his wife's attention and out hell broke loose. It effectively ended Marty and Rustin's partnership.
They unite in 2012 during a police enquiry. They bury their hatchet and continue where they stopped.
The joy of watching this show is not the story but the low down nihilistic dialogue especially by Rustin and the depressingly directionless souls of the dwellers of the interior of the most advanced country on the planet.
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