On April 15, 2013, a major explosion occurred in the Boston Marathon in the United States. Three people including Chinese student Lu Lingzi were killed and nearly two hundred were injured. After the explosion, the killers Tamerlan Tsarnayev and Dzhokhar Tsarnayev shot and killed another policeman to seize the gun, and hijacked the Chinese student Meng Dan and his SUV in a vain attempt to go there. New York continues to carry out terrorist attacks. While fueling the car, Meng Dan took the opportunity to escape and called the police. According to the GPS location on the car, the police finally killed Tamerlan and captured Johar alive, which lasted 5 days.
This movie does not have a protagonist, but uses a group-like shooting method, so it looks a bit like a documentary. The film focuses on ordinary police officers, frontline detectives, marathon participants, and two terrorists. It describes in detail how these unrelated characters lead their ordinary lives and how they were taken by an explosion. Change, intersection occurs. It also showed us from the side how much pain this terrorist attack has caused these ordinary people.
This is a very calm and restrained movie. Through the calm and detailed narration, we can see what happened before and after the two explosions. We saw the police collapse and cry, saw how the newlyweds whose legs were blown off helped each other, saw the brutality of terrorists, and saw how the city of Boston is united.
After so many years of news and propaganda, the American people seem to have a lot of problems, unwilling to cooperate with the government, like to live their own lives, disunity, etc., but this movie shows us that they are fighting against terrorists together. The way to defend your home. There are two scenes that impressed me the most. One was when the police were fighting terrorists on the street, a little brother threw a sledgehammer to the police who was about to blow the bullets and said, "Police officer, I have weapons here, kill them. "; The other was when the FBI was encircling Jiaohar, they found that an aunt had already been lying on the roof with a gun. When they persuaded the aunt to retreat, the aunt said: "This is my site, my fucking I won't leave." Although these two paragraphs are a bit funny, they moved me because this is the most concrete manifestation of a city united together. People may not have enough ability or firepower, but they will never take a step back for their homeland.
In this film, the Americans have also "self-blacked" themselves to a certain extent. For example, the FBI does not have the mysterious black technology in the TV series. It can make the surveillance video so clear, and what they get is always fuzzy. For example, the terrorist brothers have always been on the list of dangerous elements, but they have not been monitored in advance; for example, the interrogation of Tamerland has not been conducted in accordance with the "human rights and freedom" that the Americans have always advertised. But it is this kind of "self-hacking" that allows us to see the hardships behind solving the case, and how ordinary little people can unite and move forward courageously in the face of terrorist activities.
This movie is so real that many live photos and video data are almost invisible during the period, and it also allows us to see the changes of everyone in this terrorist activity. When a policeman in the film asked the police detective, played by Mark Wahlberg, whether such things can be prevented, he said: "What I saw today is the battle between good and evil, love and hate. Controversy. The devil attacks you like that. The only weapon you can use to resist is love. This is the only thing he dare not touch. Coming, it cannot be prevented in advance. We are all connected to each other. Love is the energy for us to go on. I don’t think there is any possibility that they will win."
Love sounds ridiculous, but it is indeed the best weapon against terrorism. It allows people to stay together and meet the dawn of life. Just like the police officer who stood by the 8-year-old boy’s body for a day, the old policeman who pounced on Tamerland, the police detective who was running around the street with lame legs, the Chinese who said "go get the motherfuckers!" to the policeman Boy, what can make them do this is love.
The subtitles at the end of the film are: dedicated to the wounded, the front-line police officers, medical staff and all law enforcement personnel who showed their courage, enthusiasm and devotion in the tragedy of 2013. This movie is undoubtedly the main theme movie, it is also the main theme movie of the city of Boston, and it is the song of freedom for all mankind.
To mourn the dead.
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