However, I always feel that something is not right. The shaky footage, the depressed tone, and the obscure and incomprehensible expression reminded me vaguely that the director seemed to have ulterior motives.
Look out for two episodes in this seemingly bland hostage rescue story.
The first paragraph is the hijacked subway passengers sitting in the carriage in panic, a mother with a little boy, whispering to ask a black passenger if there is any plan to save the crisis. The black man looked depressed, and said how did he ask me? Could it be that I look fierce and black? (When I first watched the film, I was also a little puzzled, thinking that this young mother is too nonsensical.) Fortunately, the young mother quickly gave the answer: she recognized the ring on the hand of the black passenger - the symbol of the Airborne Forces . The black man said weakly, "That was a long time ago, okay." With a disappointed and sad face, the young mother said, "My husband also had such a ring before his death." The camera immediately turned to the little boy beside the mother, whose eyes were helpless and clear.
The second paragraph still happened to this black ex-special soldier and the mother and son. When the furious Reid wanted to pick a hostage and kill him as a punishment for the police's bad faith, the little boy who lost his father at a young age was unfortunately selected. At a critical moment, the black man stood up and wanted to block the bullet for the little boy. The young mother pulled him in panic and said, "Wait," and the black man said to her helplessly, "This is my only plan." At the provocative scolding of the black man, Reid shot, and the black man just hung up.
If you think about these two episodes carefully, you will feel that something is not right. No, what kind of person is he? The 101 Airborne Forces retired from work. He used to be a special forces soldier out of many people. I think he must have been very skilled and quite agile back then. Obviously, at the beginning, the young mother of Jiwusiren remembered her rather heroic deceased husband, so she unconsciously regarded the former special soldier of the Airborne Force sitting opposite as a spiritual support to save everyone from the disaster. .
If this is a Jackie Chan film, the grass-roots hero of this show will not be Gable, but this black ex-special soldier with a ferocious face. Needless to say, he must have shown his skills, and he is full of jokes. In the exclamations and laughter of the film, another good show to save the situation was staged, and another Jackie Chan-style personal heroism blockbuster.
But unfortunately (or fortunately), the director of the play is Tony Scott. Faced with the helplessness of the young mother as his savior, the black man brought her and us back to the cold reality. Yes, in the real life scene, what strength does this unarmed ex-special soldier have to stage the myth of turning the tide that can only appear in film and television dramas. As a result, the film presents us with a complex but incomparably real image of a character: helpless in the face of armed robbers + righteousness and awe-inspiring sacrifice to save the boy under the muzzle of a black hole.
No matter how many spirits, heroics and heroism were once in the past, time flies, only a middle-aged hero and a sense of responsibility can be deeply felt by middle-aged people.
The protagonist of the film, Gable, is called a grassroots hero by some fans. But he is really not the grassroots hero we know well in the traditional sense. The vicissitudes of life, the tired look, the bloated body, can't speak when he is nervous, the switch of the pistol safety needs to be demonstrated, everything shows that he is really an ordinary grassroots, not the one played by Jackie Chan. Pseudo-grass roots with a good kung fu.
He robbed the bandit leader more thanks to the congested New York, as for the killing of the leader, it was more like helping the other party to escape. And he was able to make the robber Reid willing to talk to him, more meaningful because Reid felt that he was as miserable as himself, or even worse than himself. It was a misery that was overwhelmed by the pressure of life and the suppression of the system. Mortgage repayments made him die once a month, and unspoken rules to pay for the education of his two daughters resulted in suspension or even jail time.
He has struggled from a low-level employee to a so-called senior MRT official. He loves his family, his wife, and his daughter. When he calls his wife, he can't help showing off his feats. When everything is over, he opens the door with milk. Happy smile. He was just a culprit who was suspended from work, and the conversation with the robbers in the air had made him nervous and almost collapsed. When faced with the robber's request for him to send the money in person, he could obviously follow the example and simply refuse to visit the mayor of a city in danger, but he chose to agree. These are the things that impress him the most. A sense of responsibility is a grassroots sense of responsibility.
In life, there are no great heroes who can soar into the sky and have amazing actions. Ordinary people, you, me and him, have a sense of responsibility, are willing to take responsibility, and are heroes.
Just like what Rhett said to Gable before his death: You are my hero.
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