《lie to me》观后感

不知道你要英文的还是中文的 The measure of a good TV procedural, for me, lies in the way it handles its exposition. Every case-of-the-week crime show medical drama has to handle it somehow, but there's an art to making it seem like a natural part of the story that not every show can handle.FOX's new drama Lie to Me is one of those that handles exposition well. Wednesday's (Jan. 21) premiere, following American Idol, has to lay the groundwork for its case while at the same time introducing us to the highly specialized field of its lead character, human lie detector Dr. Cal Lightman, and it manages to do both without losing its story-telling momentum. It also offers up a fascinating new character in Lightman, and the show seems poised to join House and Bones in the network's lineup of bright and entertaining procedurals.We first meet Lightman -- played with a gleam in the eye by the talented Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, The Incredible Hulk) -- as he's in an interrogation room with a skinhead who's planted a bomb in a church. The FBI is outside, itching to take action, and the guy's lawyer is urging his client not to say anything. "I don't have much faith in words myself," Lightman replies, yet within a minute he's figured out where the bomb is.He does that, we soon learn, by studying "microexpressions" -- the small, unconscious tics we all have that betray our true feelings even we're trying to cover them up. He hires out his services to government agencies, law enforcement and other clients through his company, the Washington-based Lightman Group (Lightman's work, incidentally, is based on the real-life work of psychologist Paul Ekman). Joining him at the Lightman Group are psychologist Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams, The Practice) and researcher Eli Loker (Brendan Hines), whose job has led him to a policy of "radical honesty" -- that is, telling the truth in every situation, no matter how uncomfortable.The premiere follows two cases -- the murder of a high-school teacher in which a socially maladroit student is the prime suspect and that of a congressman who's caught up in a sex scandal. In both, the show uses a multitude of push-in closeups, slow motion and scenes of Cal and his cohorts breaking down video to illustrate the various players' tells. Their expressions are sometimes paired with amusing shots of famous folks, from Kato Kaelin to Dick Chaney to Simon Cowell.The visual tricks, character introductions -- including that of a new Lightman hire, TSA agent and "natural" deception spotter Ria Torres (Monica Raymund) -- and the two cases make for a rather busy, maybe even cluttered, hour of television. Now that we've been introduced to the concept, future episodes of Lie to Me can presumably dial back the cutaways and relax on the amount of expository ground they have to cover. But as I noted, writer Sam Baum handles all that exposition fairly well. The here's-how-it-works dialogue doesn't feel clunky (which is also a testament to the ability of Roth and Williams, who handle most of it), so the episode doesn't get bogged down in explanation. A lot of what makes Lie to Me fun to watch comes from Roth, who clearly is having a ball playing a guy who, even if he's not the smartest person in the room, probably still knows more than anyone else. Lightman enjoys having that leg up on people and isn't afraid to use it for his own gain or to prove a point, but you can also tell that it's not always a treat for him to bear the knowledge that everyone lies, pretty much all the time.Williams handles her role as good cop to Lightman's occasionally tactless bad cop well, but you also get the sense that although Cal pioneered the work in their field, she's every bit his equal otherwise. Hines and Torres are given enough to do in the pilot that it's likely they'll become full-fledged characters as the series moves forward.If the show suffers in any way, it may be in comparison to The Mentalist, CBS' first-year hit about another guy who sees things regular people don't. (Although no one seems to be talking about how similar the concept of The Mentalist was to that of USA's Psych anymore.) It seems to me that the characters are different enough, and the canvas of Lie to Me can encompass more than just criminal matters. Setting the show in Washington, one of the world capitals of prevarication, will probably allow for stories involving government and politics without losing the naturally high stakes involved in crime stories.FOX obviously believes in the potential of Lie to Me to put it behind its biggest show. The early evidence is that the network's faith in the series will pay off. 偶然在报纸上看到这个美剧的名字，找来看看，第一集就给人非常惊喜的感觉，如果我只是说这部剧是利用人撒谎时的表情来解决麻烦的，你可能没什么感觉，但是当你看到主角在嫌疑犯投出不屑的眼神后，准确又有根据地说出他是否撒谎，是否说真话，相信你一定也会被震惊的。仅从我们平时不被注意，习以为常的小动作就课看出是否撒谎，这种电视剧还是首创吧。 此剧根据真人真事改编，是根据一个美国心理学家的研究创作的，剧中的大部分理论都可用在实际生活中，稍微留意一下剧中人物对话，也许你也可成为轻易看穿真相。 此剧的中文名字是“别对我撒谎”和“千谎百计”，后面一个好理解，但是一开始看到前面一个就奇怪了，又不是"Don't lie to me" ，我觉得这样翻译应该是这样理解：你对我撒个谎试试！ 此剧由著名影片《海上钢琴师》的1900的扮演者Tim Roth领衔主演，操着一口典型的英国口音的Lightman在剧中与搭档Foster带领着自己的团队在美国各大联邦机构和公司中穿梭，也蛮有意思的。此剧4个主演都有自己明显的个性： Cal Lightman：Lightman团队的创始人，与前妻离婚，有个15岁的女儿，对于辨别是否撒谎有很高的技能，善于利用圈套让嫌疑人说出真相，不过有时不太善于控制自己的脾气，有本事的人总是怪怪的，先前专研究自杀，在一次意外后，转而研究微表情。 Gillian Foster：Cal的搭档，之前是个心理学家，善于循循善诱嫌疑人或证人说出实情，“见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话”，当Cal发脾气或者搞不定的时候，Foster就能指导嫌疑人冲破心理障碍，说出真相。是个善解人意的女人，不过后来与老公的关系似乎并不如想象中的美好。 Ria Torres：在观察人的表情方面有极高的天赋的一个女人，先前做机场安检工作，由于显著的天资被Lightman挖过去，虽然没经过相关训练，但很容易辨别谎言，性格直率，有时会不爽或者嫉妒Lightman，但由于经验较少，始终都比Lightman差一截，相信之后他们之间的较量会更精彩。 Eli locker：数学天才，主要为Lightman团队制作和提供不同方面的测谎仪器，例如研究声音的，是只会说真话的“城实先锋”，尽管有时说出的话不怎么好听，有些嫉恶如仇，还因此惹上险些被开除的麻烦。 从看第一集开始我就被完全吸引，除了一个问题，这些测谎高手随时很轻易就知道人们有没有对他们撒谎，即使是面对他们的亲人，朋友或者爱人，这或许是他们不想的，但他们就是知道，就像Ria一开始拒绝自己的男朋友，因为她怕很容易看出他的谎言，这就是测谎高手的烦恼。