How to evaluate the photography style of the American TV series "True Detective"

"...Most of our story took place in 1995, and the film will help us give the series a slightly nostalgic aesthetic..." (Excerpted from v Movies: HBO's "True Detective" Establishment TV Series Benchmark - Photographer Interview)

First of all, in today’s world where digital cameras are dominant, the show “True Detective” was shot on film. Obviously, this method has worked. The film shows delicate changes in light and dark, and the graininess brings people better into the era when mobile phones and the Internet were not very developed. But more importantly, this kind of textured image will bring people Come to a feeling of wanting to "read".

Film photography is often called the art of painting with light. More light in the film is used to restore the natural light effects of the environment. Of course, following the logic of lighting sources has been a topic for photographers since the neorealism of the 1940s, but the pursuit of natural light effects in the film goes on a deeper level - sometimes the character performance area is not even in the light area, and the face It's black.