The literal translation of the original title of the movie is Deep Sea Horizon, which is actually much more intuitive than the current translation. Those who are concerned about major international events should be able to react immediately - here is the most serious oil accident in human history. In this 87-day international rescue rescue, as many as 210 million gallons, or about 5 million barrels of crude oil, were still leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, polluting the sea surface covering an area of 1.55 million square kilometers, killing and even killing countless marine life. Extinction has caused an ecological catastrophe that is incalculable.
This film captures what happened on the drilling platform in less than 24 hours before and after the incident. The focus is not on the well-known long aftermath, but on the most intense moment of life and death when the platform exploded into a bright spot in satellite photos. I saw the group portraits of oil prospectors who have been ignored by us.
Recently, I have inadvertently come into contact with several similar disaster documentary works in succession. Western directors can trace the root of the problem through the complicated clues - the cement that failed to isolate the stratum, the sensor that failed on the casing, the damage The blowout preventer EDS; the graphite on the tips of the control rods of the Chernobyl reactor on the adjacent studio; the hydrogen peroxide leaking from the Kursk training torpedo. Disaster events are caused by the trivial parts of the huge industrial achievements of mankind, but they can always push the originally reversible situation into the abyss of irreversible in one coincidence after another. The most terrifying things are not the known obvious dangers, but the unknown threats lurking in the corners. Therefore, the male protagonist used the metaphor of "the plane can't just carry the gasoline that just landed" to the father of BP Party A. In addition to saying that deep-sea exploration cannot rely only on luck, he also wants to say that the preventive measures we have taken to deal with risks are actually still Far from enough. What's more, when the preventive measures we have made have actually aged and failed in a large area.
Being in the financial industry, I can deeply understand that benefit and risk control have always been opposites, but the motive for profit often drives most people to favor the former, including professional technicians and back-office managers who should be neutral and balanced. them. Whenever the bubble is punctured, we focus on reflection and repentance again, but it is limited to this. It seems that we will never learn, and we will still pin our hopes on luck again and again, because the pain will be forgotten.
The professional shooting of this film will definitely make it a textbook-level video material for the offshore oil industry in the future. Although the content is all science and engineering, and the main knowledge points are even more obscure than the nuclear industry, the film can explain the core theory through dialogue and metaphor, and it does not make liberal arts students feel boring at all. The Chinese are the most familiar with production accidents. Countries with frequent mining disasters should study how to put these lessons on the screen. It is both a wake-up call and an education. You must know that LionsGate invested a whole 100 million yuan to make this movie.
Wonderful, recommended, not favorite.
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