重获新生第一季

All u have as a cop is anathor cop.But we walked away!
We're all finding he's guilty!
After the trial,I had to get
counseling just so I could sleep.
There was all that proof.
We all turned our back on charlie crews.
In his first years,Office Robert Stark Former Partner of Charlie Crews
he was in that prison hospital more-- more than he was out.
Cop doing time,please.
Broke nearly every bone in his body.
I heard they cut him real bad too.
Over 100 stitches.
Dr.Alan Fay Pelican Bay Surgeon
About 241 stitches.

I mean,the jury was
only out for an hour.
There was all that proof.
After the case was reopened,we found that none of the physical evidence
on scene matched officer crews.
I wasn't the only one.
We all thought he was guilty.
did charlie tell you he didn't do it?
Jennifer Conover Ex-Wife of Charlie Crews
yes.
Jennifer Conover Ex-Wife of Charlie Crews
and how did you feel when you found out
he was being exonerated?
that he was innocent?
I don't wanna do this anymore.
Constance Griffiths Attorney for Charlie Crews
As I said at the press conference after detective crews was exonerated,
Constance Griffiths Attorney for Charlie Crews
life was his sentence,
and life is what he got back.
Pelican Bay Penitentiary (1995~2007)

采访式的开场白把主要人物和事情的起因交待的清清楚楚。
Charlie crews,一个曾经的警察，因为一场冤案无辜入狱十二年，人生能有几个十二年，悲观一点六十岁，十二年是人生的五分之一，乐观一点九十岁，人生的七分之一弱，这五分之一、七分之一用来干什么呢？用来在监狱里度过，而且不是因为你的原因，而且这个时候你最信任的同事，你最心爱的妻子都弃你而去，只留下你孤独的应对一切。
人需要的是理解与支持，这一切来自于朋友、亲人，但是突然有一天这一切都坍塌掉，人人都背对着你，没有人替你说一句话，没有人会对你投你理解同情的目光，你看到的都是他们冷漠的背影，这时候你会干什么？通过打架自残来发泄来麻木自己受伤心，身体上的疼痛代替心灵上的疼痛只能是暂时的，而且是欲盖弥彰，越想忘记得却越清楚，于是你求助于宗教，教人宽容教原谅教人仁慈的宗教，你希望能够将自己的复仇之心，自己的怨恨泯灭，这其实是心灵上的打架，也是为了让自己能够麻木能够说服自己，而这一切的努力相对于自己从一个执法者沦为一个罪犯的这种心理上的强大反差，是更为巨大的。
所以你虽然痛恨警察，但是你犯案以后还是对选择做警察，原因一是做不做其实无所谓，不会因为你再次做警察就对你形成强烈的刺激，因为你曾沦为罪犯，二是，你虽然得到平反，但是你认为让你承受这一切的人应该得到报应。于是你面上装作无所谓的样子来应对别人对你的过激的评论，想努力的活在当下，可是十二年的空白不是那么容易补充的。
另一方面你还是坚持正义，并没有因为自己受了委屈而性格扭曲，对罪恶仍然是不遗余力的打击，十二年的监狱生活的副产品就是你学会了冷静倾听还有敏锐的洞察力，因为有足够的时间让你的这些能力得到锻炼，所以你能轻易的就说服一个对抗感很强、胆怯的小孩说出真相，能够很快的使一个母亲从丧子之痛中走出来，找到好好生活下去的理由。你会违反一个执法者的责任，提醒一个有可爱女人的父亲把大麻冲掉好不
至于带来麻烦。
善良、嫉恶如仇、执著。
我期待你的复仇能够让你走出心中的地狱，也帮别人走出心中的地狱。
用你的话说就是：
如果我在状态，活在当下，我就不会这样。但我不是。
反言之，就是你不是活在当下，你会这样做，至于你还会怎样做，拭目以待。

本剧的主演是一张兔子脸的戴米恩-刘易斯(Damian Lewis)，曾出演过《兄弟连》中沉默寡言的温特斯上尉，所以咋一看本剧里的戴米恩-刘易斯，你会觉得此人性情大变。
戴米恩-刘易斯演的是一个看上去有点神经质的警察，他因为被卷进某个阴谋而被关进监狱十多年，再出来时，获得政府巨额赔偿金，变得很有钱，但他仍回到了警察的行伍，想找出当年的真相。为解开阴谋而在房间的墙壁上做了一张很像《拉字至上》(The L Word)里的那张les关系图的巨大关联图，当年缺失的地图在一点一点地揭开……只是进展缓慢，这点与《时光旅人》倒是相似。(len calvin/文)

        终于看完了Life，这个名字是一个双关，在片子当中既可以指“终身监禁”，又指生命。其实是这么回事：一个被判终身监禁的犯人，洗刷了罪名，最终获得了新的生命。旁白说得好：Life was his sentence. Life is what he got back.然而，这样的一个12年的坐牢经历，怎么可能不在一个人身上留下任何印记呢？新生命怎么可能是说开始就开始的呢？愤怒肯定是要有的，复仇的苦毒啃噬着他的心，使他的性情倍受压抑，这对他来说也是一种监禁。所以探索真相的过程对他来说也是一个释放自己的过程。这是一个具有顽强意志力的警察，在律师的帮助下，他从痛苦的经历当中汲取了某种营养，获得了一种超乎寻常的敏锐观察力和思辨能力。出狱以后，虽然领了巨额赔偿，衣食无忧，但是他却要求要回到警队，重操旧业，成为一名侦探（比过去的级别高一级），把这个条件作为赔偿的一部分。

        长期的监禁生活，以及对禅学的研究，使Charlie变成一个有一点神神叨叨的人，常说一些莫明其妙又大有深意的话。他酷爱吃新鲜的水果，拥有一个果园和一个太阳能工厂，监狱的生活使他格外珍惜生活。他不按理出牌，生活糜烂，有时候显得有一点猥琐，比如骚扰前妻和她的现任丈夫，常常给人很小人的感觉，所以有时候他的清白很让人怀疑。

        因为Charlie的关系，我最近喜欢上了冷幽默，在这个片子里面发现到处都是冷幽默。其中有一集，印象深刻，有一个叫做Farthinggale的死者被爆炸的瓦斯炸掉了下半身，只剩下上半截（看起来不很恐怖，倒像是一个逼真的半身塑像），他有两个假的身分，一个叫做Farthing,一个叫做Gale，分别以这两个身分娶了一个妻子，对他们声称自己是一个特工，其实真实身分只是税务局的一个再普通不过的小小公务员。不过这个小公务员还真发现了一个真正的特工也发现不了的大秘密，就是这个秘密让他丧命的。发现这个真相的过程也非常的神奇，因为要比对Farthing和Gale截然不同的生活习惯和爱好。（听起来很扯，可是过程很有趣味。）另外一个是追踪一个陈年谋杀案，禅宗大师Master Chang的尸体在他死后10年才被发现，身上有一款大哥大，内存卡还可以读，真神，咱们的Charlie大叔在片里面一直感叹科技进步真快（在牢里蹲太久了，出来以后发现这世界变化大啊）！帮助读卡的档案室小妞挺神气的，追踪了最后的几个电话号码，找出几个可疑的对象。在探访这些对象的过程当中，张大师不为人知的生活被挖掘了出来，和他让人望尘莫及的修行等级形成了极大的反差，也就是这些反差最终导致了他非常具有禅学意味的死相。这些案件其实情节不算复杂，也不特别让人觉得有趣味，可是因了一个一个的反讽，让人看的时候往往不知厌倦。

         在这一个一个的精彩破案故事里面，主人公Charlie和他美丽的女搭档之间的关系也越来越和谐，他们之间形成了一种默契，但是这种默契同时也带来了一种不幸，原因正出在Dani Reese的父亲身上。另一方面真相也在每一集里面一点一点地抽丝剥茧，到了第11集基本水落石出，但是似乎有更大的麻烦。11集里面Charlie在真凶面前挖洞的样子真是太酷了，典型的心理战术，让人佩服得五体投地。监狱的生活让他具有冷峻的气质，这才使他能够唬得住那些穷凶极恶的凶手们，不然这么玩命追查，肯定是死路一条。所以，这还不能说明问题么，困境有时候真是一笔财富。真凶归案的时候，Charlie赢得了办公室里面所有人的掌声。

       Charlie由Damian Lewis扮演。此人就是《兄弟连》(Band of Brothers)中的主角，骁勇善战，足智多谋的Richard Winters。在BOB里面，他是那样一个严于律己，富有同情心，几近完美的人，招来不少粉丝。因为嘴唇的形状比较像兔子，他得了一个“兔子先生”的外号，有的粉丝亲切地称他“大面”。虽然脸上皱纹满多的，但是当时他总体上看还是比较帅气的。看了BOB之后，我追看了他很多片子，都不是特别喜欢。神经兮兮的Keane看了一个开头我就不行了，现代版的Much Ado About Nothing也怪怪的，在The Forsyte Saga里面他演了一个坏得让人同情的反面人物，本来是一个亮点，可惜片子剧情比较夸张，活像香港的《创世纪》，豪门恩怨，不是我的那杯茶。 其实DL是一个很好的演员，只可惜老太快了，他的脸不能细看，71年生人，嘴角眼角都是好多皱纹，身材倒仍然消瘦，和James Spade相比，终归是显老，看不出后者比他大9岁。然而他的个人魅力不在外表，当他眯起小眼睛审视犯罪现场的每一个角落或者和罪犯对视的时候，你就会明白为啥剧里面的美女律师和美女搭档为啥心甘情愿围着他转啦，不光是美女们，还有他的好朋友Ted。着几个主要的人物本身也绝不是摆设，都是有故事的人，特别是Charlie的美丽女搭档，居然还会波斯语，好厉害啊，这一季旁敲侧击，一直在告诉观众，她背后也有一段引人入胜的故事呢。

      Charlie的个人魅力在哪里呢？首先，这是一个较真的人。如果是一般人的话就是take the money and go away,这样真凶就逍遥法外了。其次，这是一个很有正义感的人，以暴制暴，以牙还牙绝对不是他崇尚的。第三，虽然他并没有办法超越仇恨，但是他的头脑很清醒，看问题很透彻，知道仇恨是不好的，是苦毒的。所以他会做出买一匹白马送给自己的前妻并向她道歉的事情，他对她说，对不起，我错误地把你当作生气的对象。这种事情真是让人错愕。这样的做法，构成了他的第四点魅力的来源，那就是，不按理出牌，常常给你惊喜和希望。尽管不循规蹈矩，但是，仍然不能否认，Charlie是一个有原则的人，他对他的律师Cornie尽管十分爱慕和欣赏，但是绝对尊重。。。

     11集结尾，事情还没有完结，真正的幕后黑手还没有伏法，还有更大的挑战等着Charlie.



贴一些Charlie Crews经典对白：

1）Corrections Officer #1: Getting' angry, convict?
Charlie Crews: Anger ruins joy, steals the goodness of my mind, forces my mouth to say terrible things. Overcoming anger brings peace of mind, leads to a mind without regrets. If I overcome anger, I will be delightful and loved by everyone.
Correctional officer #2: Are you makin' fun of us?
Charlie Crews: It is the universe that makes fun of us all.
Dani Reese: Why exactly would the universe make fun of us all?
Charlie Crews: Maybe it's insecure.

2）Dani Reese: I don't exactly understand you.
Charlie Crews: You don't have to understand here to be here.
Dani Reese: That's what I don't understand.

3）Dani Reese: If I had your money... I'd be on a beach somewhere. How come you're not on a beach somewhere?
Charlie Crews: Do I look like I tan?

4）Charlie Crews: My father is getting remarried to an 8 year old. Because my mother is dead. My mother is dead because he killed her. He killed her when he wouldn't let her come see me.
Constance Griffiths: No Zen for Daddy?
Charlie Crews: No Zen for Daddy.
5）Charlie Crews: That's like...
Dani Reese: Living in the future?
Charlie Crews: Actually, I thought about that, and it turns out there really is no future, or past either, just now. And now.
[she hangs up]
Charlie Crews: And now, now, Reese?
6）Dani Reese: Why'd you become a cop again?
Charlie Crews: When I was doing all that time, I always thought inside me, I'm still a cop, it's what I held onto.
Dani Reese: Wow, that sounds like a lot of crap.
Charlie Crews: A lot of life is a lot of crap.

7）Dani Reese: I need a drink.
Charlie Crews: I know somethin' better.
[on the street, Charlie is eating a cup of fruit]
Charlie Crews: Mango?
Dani Reese: [shakes her head] It's okay.
Charlie Crews: This came all the way from Guatemala. And now it's right here in this cup. It's all connected Reese.
Dani Reese: What is?
Charlie Crews: It is.
Dani Reese: Mmm, that's Zen.
Charlie Crews: Is it?
Dani Reese: That's Zen too, isn't it?
Charlie Crews: Is it?
Dani Reese: Say "is it?" one more time and I'll shoot you.

8）Alice Gibney: My husband told me about you. A cop, in jail, all those years. How did you go on living? How did you get past it?
Charlie Crews: Well, I could tell you you're already past it, tell you this moment is your life. I could tell you you have a husband and child who need you. But none of that means anything, does it?
Alice Gibney: So tell me something that means something. Tell me anything that means something.
Charlie Crews: The man who killed your son is out there, right now, inside this same moment we are in. As we sit here, as I look at you, the man who killed John is free. Now that means something, doesn't it?

9）Charlie Crews: I investigate things to complete my knowledge.
Charlie Crews: My complete knowledge makes my thoughts sincere.
Charlie Crews: My thoughts being sincere, my heart is pure.
10）Charlie Crews: Hate is a prison. But you know what, Rick? Prison is a prison too.
11)Charlie Crews: Revenge is a poison meant for others that we swallow ourselves.
12) Charlie Crews: Maybe life is a dream and we wake up when we die?

（以上对白来源于Imdb)

还有一些网友记录的：

1）"We saw pictures of people taking pictures, and pictures of you taking pictures, but we haven't seen any of the pictures that you took. Where are those pictures, Tiffie?"

2）Crews: It's like she's no one.
Reese: No one is no one.
Crews: Now you sound like me.
Reese: Take that back.

3）Crews: It's an angel.
Reese: It's a woman with fake wings.
Crews: Maybe she's a real angel with fake wings.
Reese: Why would a real angel have...no, no, not doing this.

4）冷幽默的地方

Charlie: You think you can get to Level 10?
Computer Cop: I'm 30 years old. I live with my mother and I have a Captain Kirk costume in my closet.

(and my favorite of the night)
Charlie: You awake?
Computer Cop 2: Of course. Sleep is for babies."

5）Crews:"How come you only call me when someone's dead?"

6) Computer Cop :"We found what we mostly find on teenagers computers, games, porn; not even good porn."
Dani :"I'm sorry you had to see that."

7) Crews says: "Imagine yourself married to two women..."
Ted (thoughtfully) : "Okay, I'll play."

8) Charlie: "I change my mind. I wanna come back as a panda"
Dani: "Really? They're so cute."
Charlie: "They're not cute. They seem cute. But they're really mean."

Charlie: (About the oranges) I grew them myself.

Charlie: (in the middle of a party) I bought my ex-wife a horse!

Charlie: What do they call it? Myspace? Yourspace? Facebook? Faceplace?

9) I want to be the unwobbling pivot at the center of an ever-revolving universe. I want to be still.

10) In the hotel room from which the girl was thrown, the janitor is asked about stealing room keys and replies, "I didn't steal nothing."

To which Charlie replies:
Oh, you can't steal nothing.
Nothing does not exist.
To steal something that doesn't exist...wait...wait...
If it doesn't exist then how can it be something?
Hah! I hate that! Don't you hate that?
It's a brain fart, right?"

11) Crews: It's all connected, Reese.
Reese: What is?
Crews: It is.

12) Crews: "You seen the lab they got down there Nate? That lab can match anything to anything. You fart, they'll bag it, sample it and peg it on you. Carving, it's easy."

以上quote来源：http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/index.php?showtopic=771865&st=0

I kept watching one after another. i knew there will be no season 3 so i was hoping to know the answer by end of season 2. but still no answer. it is totally open ended. so annoying. nontheless, Life is very good.

   看这部剧是因为主演Damian Lewis，因为喜欢《兄弟连》里他演的温斯特上尉。想不到《兄弟连》里严肃沉静的温斯特上尉变成了乖戾神叨叨的Charlie Crew探长，喜欢新鲜水果，还是自己种的，张口就来一段读者文摘语录或者禅经。
    他和拍档Dani Reese的关系，令我想到《X档案》里的Mulder和Scully，刚开始都有点互不信任，然后慢慢变的默契与互相信赖。不知道新的一季里面他们的关系会如何发展呢~毕竟Reese的爸爸现在看来正是陷害Crew的祸首之一。
   《Life》绝对应该属于慢热型。对我来说，开始一两集看下来觉得普普。可是越到后面就越觉得精彩。Charlie Crew的个人魅力逐级上升，与女警拍档和钱管家Ted的互动也越来越有味道，冷幽默也越来越多~~~好感度是单线上扬，到最后两集Dig a Hole和Fill It Up达到顶点。最后一集当他把12年前的真凶捉拿归案，在办公室里曾经怀疑他的同事们的掌声里走进来，嘴角带着不太能察觉的笑意，帅死了~~~
    另外这部的OST也绝对要赞一下，几乎每集都有令人印象深刻的插曲，和故事、画面也配合的堪称完美。不知道有没有出原声碟。

相信大部分人看这部电视剧是为了 Damian Lewis 而来，事实上， Damian 确实把crews演地非常好，乃至于看了电视剧了以后，执着的不再仅仅是Damian的气场，而是导演、编剧想要表达的那些主题。

在这部剧里，禅成为了男主行事乃至破案的一个重要的特征。开始的时候，编剧有点把禅处理成男主的碎碎念中的套套逻辑，这可能让很多观众觉得有点反感。但是后来，编剧能够很好地把禅和剧情融合在一起，男主通过禅的思想，决定他破案的方向，并且找到主线当中追踪反派大BOSS的线索。

单集剧情来看，整部剧破案的线索来的的确有些简单，但是男主能够用很巧妙的方法发现真正的凶手。虽然有时候显得有些刻意，但是大部分还是很巧妙的。到了season 2, 原本以为男主会和女主有感情线，但是完全没有，编剧似乎为了挽回收视，让男主和前妻搅在一起，而女主和肥肥的上司搅在一起，这也是一个遗憾。

总体来看，编剧有他的新意在，加上好听的非典型电视剧的OST，真的很有感觉。有些时候，面临正义与罪恶、生死离别、仇恨与原谅，真的需要一些禅来让自己的心灵平静。加上Damian对角色的大智若愚的特点的刻画，以及极度富有张力的眼神，真的给观众带来了很多惊喜。

这类破案剧每剧各破一案，所以也没有追剧的压力，每次40分钟，能够享受破一个案子的过程中，与嫌疑人过招以及思考破案线索的脑力冲击。是一个不错的观剧选择。