Don't expect from the beginning, the only thing you can do is die quietly

Jacinthe 2022-04-19 09:01:49

Obviously, my attitude towards this film from the perspective of a genre screenwriter was wrong in the first place for the purpose of watching a commercial film.

When we were studying screenwriting, Syd Field's "The Fundamentals of Screenwriting" was a must-see for us. We once analyzed that when we escaped from Tehran, we felt completely in line with those routines. For example, the last point of despair heralded the beginning of the ending, but the general Hollywood The ending of the movie is often happy, and the protagonist is basically alive.
The plot setting of this movie gave me a surprise. The death of the male protagonist at the end was unexpected, and I realized that this is not about the hero's ingenuity to rescue himself, but the US government's ignorance that led to the death of ordinary citizens. die. The film depicts the language of different characters on the other end of the phone. From the dialogue with customer service, the government, the company, friends, parents, etc., we can see the indifference of the American government and the fragility of the relationship between people. .
With the film's subtitles, I even hoped that the movie would have a rescue scene at the end of the subtitles, but I didn't realize that it was impossible until the happy song at the end of the film was sung, and the recording at the end of the film has explained everything.
From the very beginning, the tone of the officials' buck-passing tone foreshadowed the end, and I shouldn't have expected the male protagonist to go out, life or death, from the very beginning.
All that can be done is to wait quietly for death, which is really a desperate film.

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  • Dan Brenner: Why the hell did you make that ransom video? Now your captors have no choice but to follow through!

  • Paul Conroy: It's over, isn't it?

    Dan Brenner: No!

    [long pause]

    Dan Brenner: Yeah.