The coquettish lawyer is a TV series about a man's slow-motion "death". At the beginning of the series, Saul Goodman, the Jianghu lawyer played by Breaking Bad, was given another name. This is his real name: Jimmy McGill is not like Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, he is a man full of justice.
But in the fifth season, Jimmy almost completely turned into Saul, and watching Jimmy slowly slide to Saul was both helpless and sad. After his brother died, he stopped working as a lawyer for a year, and now he is beginning to pull himself together and lay a solid foundation in the legal field as soon as possible under the pseudonym of Saul Goodman. For most of last season, he used this alias to establish contact with petty criminals.
Although bob odenkirk's performance of Jimmy and Saul in Carnival was as interesting as ever, it was all so sad: as a man who lost his brother, Jimmy never gave himself a chance to mourn. On the contrary, he put himself in his most familiar world of small lawyers and established his reputation in the market of low-level criminals. Only in this way can he forget the sorrow and heal his wounds. Gradually, Jimmy McGill was buried alive. Saul Goodman dug the hole with a shovel.
Now, Jimmy's despair finally turned into something darker. The last sentence of the last episode of the fourth season is "Everything is fine, man", which has a moral: we have just witnessed the death of Jimmy McGill and the resurrection of Saul. The whole scene makes people feel lifeless. Jimmy has no humanity. He succeeded in persuading a room full of strangers with false sincerity, but his companions didn't believe him. Looking at his last distance from Kim, when he realized that he was slipping into darkness, like the last scene of The Godfather, his face fell down.
Seeing Saul fully recovered is equivalent to seeing everything Jimmy lost in the process, which is also the emotional change of the audience in the whole process. The camera flashes to remind us that all this will come. Nothing in the world can stop Jimmy from losing his humanity. All we can do is wait passively.
The coquettish lawyer tried to express the great harm caused by "when people believe that fraud is the only way to win" and "for those who believe that justice and emotion are serious, it is just a joke in the end". Jimmy's girlfriend Kim wexler explained this point: Kim wexler is a good lawyer, full of justice and emotion, but a bit like a liar.
"Everything is fake, everything may be a scam."
The emotional depth of this play lies in the relationship between Jimmy and his girlfriend. Lawyer Kim wexler King's pain, helplessness and loss are deeply expressed, because Saul made her lose her way. Sometimes she makes money like an unscrupulous lawyer, and sometimes she wants to do something meaningful. At the same time, Jimmy seems to be eroded by the inner darkness bit by bit, sinking deeper and deeper in the moral abyss.