除了叙事深长,架构精妙,推理严密冷静——这些优点自不必说——第一季最为出彩之处,窃以为,在于塑造了Rust Cohle这个充满灵魂的虚无主义者,以及他和他的“浅八度”搭档小Marty,在世界观、价值观上的碰撞和融合。Rust Cohle这个角色充实而独特,他的深邃、敏锐和暴戾,他哲学意味浓厚的经历和思考,使他承载了丰富的可供挖掘的文本。还有片中的各种隐喻(比如克鲁苏神话,比如“you’re looking at it wrong. The sky thing”片段中基督再临的意象),也被粉丝们津津乐道。
第一季的海报上,冷清地印着“TOUCH DARKNESS, AND DARKNESS TOUCHES YOU BACK”,颇有尼采“当你凝视深渊,深渊也在凝视你”的意味。这一季,依旧简简单单,“WE GET THE WORLD WE DESERVE”,少了些超然和神秘,多了庞杂和冷硬。
这第一集的名字,叫做Western Book of the Dead。我试图google一下出处,不好找,找到一份东西,总共十二章:
CHAPTER I
In the beginning – i.e., before the beginning – there was NOTHING. And MATTER came out of NOTHING. And MATTER was CHAOS.
CHAPTER II
Strangely, and for no reason whatsoever, CHAOS started to change. Simplicity begat complexity, randomness begat order, most peculiar of all, inanimate MATTER begat organic MATTER.
CHAPTER III
Many, many, many years passed and quite by chance organic MATTER developed in a strange direction. It became more and more complex, and then for no apparent reason at all, it became conscious of itself. It called the consciousness MIND and it gave itself a name and that name was MAN.