As expected, Dustin Hoffman brings to life a professional journalist who is eager to dig news at first and then gradually awakened by his conscience to try to help the hijacker out of the predicament, and John Travolta will inadvertently seek reinstatement. The unemployed in danger, the honest, kind, and even neurotic Sam is vividly portrayed.
My emotions have twists and turns, from silly kidnapper Sam being controlled by the articulate reporter Tom and amused - to the unscrupulous media being angry for their own desires - to the powerless Tom and being forced to go nowhere Sad for Sam.
Crazy society, unscrupulous media, ignorant public will push the simple and honest Sam step by step to the abyss of death. The various characters in the film, whether reporters, police officers, interviewees, and demonstrators, etc., are very professional and even quite dedicated, but their greed for profit has lost the most important thing of human beings-humanity. They follow the event and look forward to its escalation to satisfy their respective desires.
Sam's ending is destined to be a tragedy, and Tom's conscience is destined to be a roar - "We killed him." The
trapped children are very innocent, fearless and kind, and the children's eyes can see the world's right and wrong at a glance. So they have no fear in the face of Sam, who is honest and kind with a gun in his hand, so they will sincerely thank Sam when he is released from the museum. Our world was originally so pure, there was no grudge between people. Desire drives madness, and madness leads to destruction.
This is a crazy society, and how far are we crazy?
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