"Falcon Rising" is an old-fashioned action movie: linear narrative, unthinking values, and ideology without illusion.
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist’s character is drawn in white: a veteran who has just walked out of the war, with the wounds of war remaining in his memory; has experienced the test of life and death, has put his life and death out of his life; emotions are often angered and frustrated. Being held hostage. The plot of the film continues the action film routine of "from being injured to using power to exercise one's own justice". What an action movie has to do is punch a punch, not form a critical idea about the fist.
In "Falcon Rising", fraternity and justice are the values it promotes, and it is American citizens who represent this value. The war experience of the hero of the film shows that he once obeyed the manifest destiny of the United States and used force to spread "freedom and democracy" in the far east, but the effect did not seem to meet expectations. The actor's sister is engaged in humanitarian activities in a community (slum?) in Brazil, South America, and is committed to building a harmonious and friendly society. She represents a value closer to life, that is, love of justice. The former is killing and the latter is nurturing. The comparison between the two shows the near despair of the former and the hopefulness of the latter.
Justice comes from the United States, and this unthinking value promotes the ideology of the United States as the authentic. Brazil’s crowded people live in crime-ridden communities and are accustomed to drug trafficking and murder; those people are unable to resist crime on their own, because forced to survive, they have merged the hope of survival with the ability to commit crimes; It can be seen here that the overbearing forces in mankind always tend to take on the role of liberator, so as to allow the continuation of the confederacy. The local government may lack the courage or the strength to eradicate the crime. The police are either visibly collaborating with criminals or secretly collaborating with criminals. In short, these conditions that occurred in South America indicate that it needs justice but cannot be self-sufficient. Therefore, it needs an outsider with a sense of identity as its Messiah. That is, the United States not only has the sense of justice conferred by the infamous destiny, but also has power. To have love and responsibility is truly the source of justice.
Of course, outsiders do not mean justice. On the contrary, outsiders who lack the basis of common values are evil. In the film, the outsider outside the United States is a Japanese gang. As a loyal follower of the United States, Japan has only a perverted image in the vision of the United States: eccentric adult men and pedophiles are its characteristics. It seems that the inferior nature of natural cultural genes will not be easily overcome.
When Uncle Sam tried to root its interests and sense of security between China and the Middle East, and the effect was not satisfactory, "Falcon Rising" said that perhaps it should take back its vision and re-treat the back garden of the United States.
