The first impression is very depressing. K was dispatched to the Guantanamo Bay Prison as a recruit, like a child entering the world, feeling fresh about everything, believing in the past, and opening a new chapter in his life with the vision of "do something right, something good".
However, the longer I stay, the more I feel that things are not as I imagined. The people in the cell are not called prisoners, but called “detainees.” They seem to focus on human rights, but they are different from prisoners in real prisons.
The camera changes between Ali’s cell and K’s dormitory from time to time. What is the difference between the two square rooms? The prisoners lived a life of being controlled, discriminated against and abused, and the soldiers lived a life of being oppressed, brainwashed and mentally violent. In the cell and outside the cell, suffocation is the same.
One of the most desperate episodes is the conversation between K and soldiers in the restaurant at the same time. Colleagues said someone committed suicide. K’s first reaction was a prisoner. Colleagues denied that he was a guard. He jokingly said that the suicide attempt was rescued. K said after being silent. He was so lucky, and his colleague suddenly said emotionally, "It's ridiculous, he actually committed suicide, it's just a difficult job, isn't it? It shouldn't be!" K said that it is probably difficult for some people, it is not so black and white here. Clear, so it will make people feel guilty. What guilt does my colleague say excitedly? How can I feel guilty, they are the masterminds of 9/11!
But is it really? Maybe my colleagues have doubts in their hearts. They obviously don't approve of everything they usually do, but they still have to convince themselves to accept that this matter is correct.
Everyone was tortured, whether it was the people in the cell or the people outside the cell. There has never been a winner in this struggle between human nature.
Some people may say that the problems reflected in the movie are not as true as the tip of the iceberg, but the director's gentleness has slowly penetrated in the transition process of K and the "violating regulations" chats between K and Ali.
The two of them held each other tightly across the cell door handle. It was no ordinary holding hands. It was in this involuntary cruel reality that two flesh and blood people were supporting each other.
In the ending, K was traveling with his bag on his back and his eyes were full of feeble sadness. Ali opened the book he had been thinking about for a long time and stroked the words K left him.
The two will inevitably not meet again in this life. Ali may commit suicide again soon, but the tenderness of this moment is precious in the entire repressive and cruel plot.
Some people say that there is love between two people, I don't think so. The two of them are in two opposite camps that cannot be broken through, and they are suffering from different ways but the same essence of torture and oppression. They talk to each other about redemption in their difficulties. It is not love, but a little bit more forgiving than friendship. This is probably the so-called fourth kind of emotion. The time to meet and gather in this life is less than one ten thousandth, but the heart of attention has already penetrated into the depths of the soul.
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