The real disaster is behind the screen

Celestine 2022-04-21 09:01:58

On April 20, 2010, a methane bubble emerged from the seafloor, and the butterfly effect that subsequently evolved caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to catch fire and explode. After 36 hours, it gradually sank in the Gulf of Mexico with loud noises and blazing flames. After the incident, 7 people were seriously injured and 11 people were missing.

The movie "Deep Sea Catastrophe" restored the whole story with realistic images six years later.

Although the word "disaster" in the disaster film must be prominent, it is enough to give it to the code name 9527 who sold his body to bury his father at the gate of Washington. Life is buried, but let the normally invisible human nature shine in the dark, which is the mainstream value that disaster films have always adhered to.

"Deep Sea Catastrophe" wanted to do this, but unfortunately it failed.

It is also a pity that several protagonists led by Mark Wahlberg and others want to prevent all these disasters from happening, although according to the "Murphy's Law" mentioned in "Interstellar", all this is Sooner or later.

The original sentence of Murphy's Law is this: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of the ways to choose will lead to disaster, someone must make that choice.

In addition to the disaster scene like hell of flames, the rest of the movie revolves around this damn law, telling two groups of people to drill for oil, and then the choice of one of them led to this man-made disaster.

This time, the Americans did not hesitate to throw this basin of dirty water on the British led by BP.

In the film, Mark Walkerberg, the image representative of the United States,

BP, a professional, dedicated, meticulous and British image spokesman, is described as the root of both bureaucratic and greedy disasters.

Whether the oil industry is really that lucrative, that's not what the movies and we care about. The only thing that "Deep Sea Catastrophe" wants to do is to buckle the dung pot on the head of the British, and shape the representative characters into the appearance of interest; while the Americans themselves are united and fraternity with their backs to the stars and stripes. down.

But this is not the case.

The accident, which killed only 11 people, was just the beginning of the disaster. Not to mention how those families who lost their pillars have endured the pain, just talk about the largest oil spill since the new century, which has caused the entire Gulf of Mexico to suffer a devastating disaster. In the words of the media at the time: the ecological environment of the Gulf of Mexico is being suffered disaster.

The protagonist's soy sauce throughout the whole process, out-of-context decoration, blunt colleagues' affection, and the unexpected survival of the Jedi, make the style of "Deep Sea Catastrophe" suddenly drop below the horizontal line. There is no need to compare it with the ocean disaster epic "Titanic". Even a little-known "Perfect Storm", in which the struggle between people and the environment has attracted audiences' tears, is more than "Deep Sea Catastrophe". Ten gallons.

More importantly, ignoring the subsequent destruction of the environment, choosing only the little people at the source of the disaster, and then sing the praises with full firepower, this kind of routine that can't be wrong but always feels that something is wrong is really insightful." The main theme is universal”.

The difference is that after the disaster, Americans choose to start the machine in Hollywood; while we save money, we usually pick a good day to hold a meeting...

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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.