Vince Gilligan
Breaking Bad

It was a great fortune to have watched Breaking Bad so late after its finale. In complete darkness, with no one talking about it like before, I was able to immerse myself in a new product, which had greatly intrigued my mind.
For all the fools who consider it a TV series have made a great blunder: Breaking Bad is Cinema. A high-caliber film, a feature composed of 62 episodes from which all current cinema and especially major productions should take an example. What is the real strength of the work? Logic. BB is damn rational! As any form of art that claims to tell a story should be.
Hitchcock said that the recipe for making a good film is composed of three ingredients: the screenplay, the screenplay, and the screenplay. And the ability to make a story REAL, yet interesting at the same time, was the winning card. A perfect screenplay, without trivialities and bombast. Every event, every action, every reaction is incredibly grounded, creating a picture of detailed psychological analysis of the character. And this is precisely the second strength: the characterization of the character. Walt is what every film lover would like to encounter. He is original, something never seen before. From the first moment he is introduced, he is intriguing and fascinating. There would be many beautiful interpretations of this magnificent character, but the one that perhaps represents him most is as a man of sound principles, correct and hard-working, faced with an incredibly adverse fate. But what causes his degeneration and evolution is not the madness that any man in such a situation might be overwhelmed by. It is the rationality of the man of science; every action is a mathematical calculation with predicted consequences, pros, and cons. As time passes, he becomes colder, more calculating, increasingly aware, yet ever closer to self-destruction.
Incredibly, however, the character that impressed me the most was Jesse. Mr. "Bitch" is what can be defined as "the destruction of the stereotype". Because Pinkman starts like this: a drug-addicted boy, uneducated, with a pseudo-gangster language and clothes three sizes too big. Seen and seen again hundreds of times, but with each episode, he is turned inside out, characterized more and more until breaking the cliché to create a man of great psychological and emotional depth.
Coherent and very introspective, Breaking Bad takes its time. If there is a need to build an episode where the plot does not move forward, but an aspect of the character is deepened, it is done. There is no need for a cliffhanger, no need for the twist at the end of the episode. The action is put on the back burner. And this is what Michael Bay, Snyder, and an ignorant audience should learn: making a film is not about explosions and special effects, but about narrating a story.
Breaking Bad is a school for all who wish to learn how to make cinema.

"All good things must come to an end"