{"id":216669,"date":"2021-04-01T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-suspensefully-serpent-ine-tale-of-seduction-and-murder\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:00:27","slug":"a-suspensefully-serpent-ine-tale-of-seduction-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-suspensefully-serpent-ine-tale-of-seduction-and-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Suspensefully ‘Serpent’-ine Tale of Seduction and Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Suspensefully ‘Serpent’-ine Tale of Seduction and Murder<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Like an exotic urban legend in the bronzed flesh, Charles \u201cThe Serpent\u201d Sobhraj is the international man of mystery as bogeyman. Tall, dark and lethally handsome, with an enigmatic expression as unchanging as his lush helmet of hair, the central figure of Netflix\u2019s gripping eight-part true-crime drama The Serpent<\/em> is played with quiet, cold-eyed menace by Tahar Rahim (recently acclaimed for his performance in The Mauritanian<\/i>).<\/p>\n

This real-life con man spent much of the 1970s luring unsuspecting young hippie tourists into his Bangkok party pad, where he\u2019d drug and often brutally murder them for their travel<\/a>ers\u2019 checks and passports. These counter-culture victims, unfortunate Jane and John Does, mostly flew under the radar \u2014 and so for too long did Sobhraj, who maintained a false front as a European gem trader named Alain.<\/span><\/p>\n

But after he targets a Dutch couple with the help of his glamorous and blithely in-denial accomplice, Marie-Andr\u00e9e \u201cMonique\u201d Leclerc (Victoria<\/i>\u2019s stunning Jenna Coleman), their murders spark a crusade for justice engineered by inexperienced diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle). This earnest Dutchman, smoking furiously as if to illustrate his mounting frustration, is as determined as Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/i>\u2019 Javert \u2014 but with better cause \u2014 to stop this seductive and slippery fiend, if only he can get his superiors or local authorities to take him seriously.<\/p>\n

Engrossing as it builds to moments of Hitchcockian suspense, especially once Knippenberg enlists a ragtag group of amateur ex-pats to try to trap his elusive and escape-prone target, The Serpent<\/i> shifts sometimes too dizzyingly back and forth through time as it dramatizes Sobhraj\u2019s merciless crimes. And attempts to psychoanalyze him as a mixed-race outsider who never earned his dragon-mother\u2019s love feel half-hearted at best.<\/p>\n

Still, you\u2019ll root for those who work desperately to pin him down and make him answer for the many wandering souls forever lost.<\/p>\n

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Mammoth Screen Ltd\/Roland Neveu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Serpent<\/em>, Limited Series<\/a> Premiere, Friday, April 2, <\/b>Netflix<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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