Extortion

A family of three vacationed in the Caribbean Sea. They rented a small boat to go out to sea.

However, they walked further and further away, and came to an isolated island for a while, and when they set off again, the motor of the boat didn't work, and it couldn't start. Because their boat was rented in cash from local fishermen and had no formal registration, no one would notice their absence. This is echoed in the second half of the film, where some fishermen illegally rent their boats to make extra money, and many tourists are happy to rent theirs because they can be cheaper.

In this way, they spent two days and two nights on the isolated island, with no water, no food, and no clothes. The six-year-old son had collapsed into a coma. The father, who is a doctor by profession, realizes that he can't wait any longer, and he will collapse into a coma like his own son. So the three of them went back to the dinghy, paddled the dinghy with a raft, and then let the dinghy float on the sea. It seemed that after another day, their boat had drifted to another uninhabited island, and finally two black fishing boats passed by and found them. The black man gave them a bottle of water, and when we were glad they could finally be saved, the story was just beginning. The black man started extorting $1 million, and he wanted to take away the doctor. The actor first received the money and then came back to save his wife and son. And there are hundreds of small islands in that area. Only these two fishermen know which island his wife and son are staying on. Otherwise, even if they call the police, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack. At that moment, the film resonated with the audience just right. That idiot was a scumbag. At a time when his life was at stake, he could actually leave two half-dead people on an isolated island, and both of them were already in a coma. One of them is still a child.

But the more scumbag thing is yet to come. A rural doctor, who has only 40,000 US dollars in savings, needs to borrow 1 million US dollars in a very short period of time. He is racing against time, which is unlikely for most people. However, the focus of the film is not on how to collect the ransom, so there is not much ink here. The scum thing came. After the male protagonist honestly remitted $1 million to the other party according to the request of the black fisherman, on the way to rescue his wife and son, he was poisoned by the fisherman and almost drowned. After the male protagonist escaped from the locked fishing warehouse, he floated at sea for another day before being rescued by other cruise ships. After that, of course, he called the police and started rescue work.

But a movie is only good if it has its ups and downs. The police have not yet started the rescue, and are already questioning the authenticity of the story. Is it a story deliberately fabricated by the hero to defraud insurance money? Did he collude with the fisherman, or did the fisherman not exist at all? While anxious to save his relatives, he was regarded as the object of suspicion. The police did not start the rescue for a long time. It is conceivable how strong the heart must be in order not to collapse. In fact, this is the most unacceptable thing. The only object with the most strength to rely on is unreliable, and there is no one to call for help. Although it is cruel, but this really exists objectively in reality. Time passed by minute by minute, and my child and wife were dying on the desert island. Maybe life and death were in this second. I was anxious for him. Obviously, he wanted to start a rescue operation by himself. In fact, he did the same. Only by finding the fisherman can he know the exact location of the child and his wife. After many setbacks, he finally found the home of the black fisherman, who had a seriously ill child who had been stuck on a tube, and understood that he might be extorting money because of his own family and children, but because he had such a child at home, How can there be no sympathy at all when a dehydrated six-year-old can be left on an island. When the male protagonist doctor killed the fisherman in self-defense, it did not make people feel the slightest sympathy for the deceased.

In the end, despite the uncertainty of the life and death of his wife and children, the police stopped the search and rescue plan, and under the double pressure of being wanted by a murderer, he finally rescued his dying relatives by single-handedly. Does the film want to tell us that good people have good rewards and bad people have bad rewards? When a truck hit another fisherman involved in extortion, the male doctor wanted to borrow the truck to buy time to drive to the dock to rescue his relatives, but he hesitated, and finally left the truck to the injured fisherman and asked the driver to hurry up Take him to the hospital. The story is full of thrills and dangers. Of course, I don't believe that the child can be saved after so long without food, but the movie gives people hope, don't give up no matter how difficult it is.