This film is the US Department of Defense's counter-terrorism emergency response show when facing the fall of the palace. The specific incident encountered by the US power sector in the film is that terrorists against the civil war between North and South Korea infiltrated the White House through the visit of the South Korean Prime Minister to the United States, and carried out large-scale terrorist destruction and control of the interior and exterior of the White House. In the White House secretly code-named "Olympus" by the Secret Service, a battle of conspiracy and salvation will be staged in the place that affects the world.
In a tense atmosphere, the film shows that in the face of terrorists' threats to the president and government officials, the US government demands that the US government "recall the Seventh Fleet in the Sea of Japan and withdraw 28,500 US soldiers from the demilitarized zone" in an attempt to coerce the acquisition of the president and national defense. The Cerberus code kept by the three ministers and the chief of staff controls the self-destruction program of the US nuclear bomb, and the choice and determination of the US president and the US government led by the acting president of the speaker.
Both the American spirit and the storyline need a lone hero to support. This person is a former US Secret Service agent Banning. Under the terrorists' advanced weapons and crazy slaughter, Banning relied on wisdom, professionalism and familiarity with the White House, and cooperated with the Department of Defense to end the nuclear bomb self-destruction program in a timely manner, preventing the terrorists from detonating the missile in the silo. hostage, and take the White House back from terrorists.
Many people discussed the original intention of the film in terms of the reduction of military spending by the U.S. military at that time and the American crisis awareness. But I think that, combined with the President's "opportunity to stand up from destruction" at the end of the film, is to express that the United States has always been threatened and challenged, and threats and destruction will never overwhelm the indomitable United States. Instead, it has made a stronger America.
This has to remind people of the history of the White House being burned. It was the United States just after independence. With the expansion of its territory and the gradual strengthening of the United States, the number one empire, the United Kingdom, began to harass the maritime trade of the United States and curb the development of the United States. On June 1, 1812, the U.S. Congress passed the President's proposal to declare war on Britain. Taking advantage of Britain's busy war with Napoleon, the U.S. Navy defeated the British Navy and cut off the logistical supply of the British Army, which weakened the British Army's combat power. In 1814, Napoleon was defeated on the European battlefield, and the United Kingdom attacked the United States in an all-round way. In August, the British army landed on the east coast of the United States and occupied Washington, setting fire to the White House. When the British army was triumphant, the U.S. Navy once again rose to prominence, defeating twice its own British army in the Lake Champlain area.
Therefore, the film is to convey American integrity and self-confidence to the American people and the world. However, I really want to complain. The film suggests that the turmoil and chaos that the world will encounter when the United States is threatened is really a conceit of a powerful country that has been accidentally revealed. Sure enough, the thinking is very American!
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