🎬TV series "The night of" - criminal drama and the problems of rac...

Last summer was avaricious for TV series novelties. Many people lounged about, looking for anything to watch, digging through the archives, watching the series all over again, but then we get mini-series from HBO - "The night of".

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Now HBO is almost a sign of quality. Well, can the channel, which released The Wire, Game of Thrones, the Young Pope (!!!) and many other TV series, let down? Of course it was necessary to watch.

It seems that the plot is simple - the murder of a girl and the search for a murderer, but the show raises the problem of immigration, the attitude of "white" Americans to the representatives of the Arab diaspora and the life of a person in prison and after it.

PLOT

Young Pakistani Nasir Khan (actor Riz Ahmed) is studying at a college in New York. Once he is invited to a student's party. Overjoyed guy takes his father's taxi and goes to meet the adventure. Unfortunately, he was looking for not exactly those adventures . A girl gets into that taxi and without listening to his protests, asks to take her to the river. There was no question of any party and after the river they went to her house for a night...

After a stormy night, Nasir wakes up next to the girl's corpse.

RESUME

There are only 8 episodes . "The night of" is based on the British series Criminal Justice, presented in 2008.

There are three main characters in the story: Nasir, his lawyer and the police detective.

Nasir.

I meet the actor Riz Ahmed for the first time. Although he played in several famous films. He was nominated for the Golden Globe for his role in "The night of".

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The actor managed to get used to the role. He is a shy guy from a poor family. He was lucky - the white guys from the college spotted him and invited him to a party. He will soon be part of their world! However, a girl comes across and twists him around her little finger. It took only a few hours from the time he was getting into his father's taxi, but now he is sitting in the back seat of a police car.

Nasir is in no way whitewashed in the TV series - we do not know whether he is a murderer or not. We are shown everything as it is, everything will be as it is in life. The right boy is in the wrong world. Will he survive there? Will he stay after that? Will he break or just get stronger?

Lawyer John Stone.
The lawyer was played by actor John Turturro. The role was originally supposed to James Gandolfini, but he suddenly died. Then they invited Robert De Niro, but he also left the project because of the employment.

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Tourtorro perfectly coped with his role. A life-worn lawyer who sees in the guy's case his high point. He will still be sent to prison, but Stone сan be shown on televisionб he'll get popularity. After all, the Nasir case will attract interest - a visiting Pakistani man kills a white American girl - a rich girl from the Upper West Side.

Throughout the episodes, you do not understand how you feel about Stone. Is he a good person or a bad person? Wants to help a guy or not?

Detective Dennis Box.
Bill Camp plays Dennis Box, which includes the accusation line of "The night of".

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He is a cynic to the core. Detective Box considers the case to be disclosed, he is not interested in Nasir's words. Quickly concoct a case, send a guy to jail - all that he needs. And whether he is guilty or not, it's secondary.

There is also a fourth character - a Cat. He does not affect the disclosure of the case, but everyone loves cats.😄

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The first three episodes are very dynamic. From what is happening on the screen, you forget to breathe and squeeze into an armchair, the nerves are as tight as strings. The tempo decreases in the following episodes , the picture becomes more gloomy and depressive.

Murder is only one of the reasons to show the attitude of Americans to Muslims, and especially to visiting Muslims. Nobody doubts the guy's guilt. Arab? Then exactly he killed. The fact that the guy has excellent academic performance, teacher feedback, no one cares. Vandals and not indifferent people converge immediately to his house to chant "Go home."

The second theme, which "The night of" raises , is survival in a prison. Only one decision - to give a girl a ride, leads to irreversible consequences. Yesterday Nasir was sitting in college, and today he is having dinner with hardened criminal. One decision marks an end to his future life. Even if they release him, who will he become?

Well, the third - no one cares what happened. The prosecution wants to get Nasir to jail, the defense to get promotion. Nasir's parents are worried that he disgraced them. And Nasir feels that there is some kind of nonsense around.

Everything is shown too vitally, in the best traditions of HBO - atmospheric and viscous. The feeling of desperation covers not only the protagonist, but you. Moreover, the viewer is put on the thirteenth juror and he must decide for himself whether to accuse the protagonist of a crime or not.

"The night of" is extremely difficult to watch because of the abundance of hard scenes, but this is compensated in general by a humanistic message. Eight episodes of "The night of" are eight high-grade films.

To be honest, I envy those people who will watch the TV series for the first time, because I have not seen such intrigue for a long time. Of course, the revision will not bring such pleasure.

The TV series is not going to continue unless HBO finds a new interesting story, but it will not be dedicated to Nasir.