outstanding ordinary

Curtis 2022-04-19 09:01:50

Everything is the same as in the past. Several groups of seemingly irrelevant shots show the protagonist's loving father, affectionate husband, and family first image one by one, and an episode explaining the principle of the oil well accident through a small scene in the kitchen is rendered. The tense atmosphere also speaks to the professionalism of Wahlberg's character, although he will later find out that he is illiterate. As the plot unfolds, there is still a lot of time left for the short film to film the actors' daily lives. The seemingly casual arrangement actually makes the audience feel immersed and has a preliminary understanding of the unfamiliar oil well drilling. When the disaster finally occurs, you in front of the screen can already judge that it is precisely because you missed each opportunity, in order to meet the deadline, save costs, go your own way, without the pressure of testing, it will eventually lead to a catastrophe, which makes people sigh with embarrassment. It also proves once again that security accidents are more of a man-made disaster, and the capital group has always been unable to escape the essence of greed and profit ignoring the facts. Subsequent self-rescue and rescue, on the contrary, are plain or routine. The protagonist can always save himself from danger in a hurry. There are supporting roles who sacrifice themselves to save everyone, and there are supporting roles who are selfish and eager to escape. People are too small and ordinary in the face of disasters. It's just that there are flashes in the ordinary, and of course there are also dims. But it must not be considered that Wahlberg saved the whole well by himself. What really played a decisive role was a series of countermeasures after the accident, including mature and smooth rescue, self-rescue of the people on the well, and improvement of auxiliary equipment, etc. Only 11 people died in such a big explosion. At the end of the roll call, I felt the same, and the survivors all knelt down and prayed to the climax. Of course, the American flag always appears in the whole film without losing time, and it also gives a few shots to the family of the deceased at the end of the film, once again attacking the evil capitalists who are mercenary. A film with a high degree of completion, there are emotions and scenes, dangers and surprises, and at the end, there is a little thinking and a bit of dry goods (information about the drilling platform), 108 minutes of overwhelmed, telling ordinary stories so well, enough!

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Deepwater Horizon quotes

  • Felicia: Is it just me or did it get real bright in there all of a sudden? Mike, what is that? Is everything ok? Mike?

  • Andrea Fleytas: I don't want to die! I don't want to die.

    Mike Williams: You're not going to die. Trust me.