"The world is getting better and better, and it's falling like never before. But we're far from the generation that saw the end."
The film is based on the real "911" Mumbai terrorist attack in India, a 60-hour serial terrorist attack. In November 2008, the iconic building in Mumbai, India, the famous Taj Mahal Hotel was accidentally invaded by terrorists, and more than 100 hotel guests and employees were trapped. For a moment, the bustling and beautiful hotel in the past is shrouded in the breath of death, and you don't know if the bullet hit you the next moment.
When the crisis hit, Hemant Oberoi, the executive chef of the hotel, calmly organized the hotel staff to protect the hotel guests and transfer them to the more secluded and safe VIP club. When they learned that there was no hope of rescue, they arranged an evacuation plan and led them out of the hotel through the staff channel. Oberoi asks the staff, leave or stay to protect our guests, you can choose.
Many chose to stay.
At the end of the rescue, Oberoi and his employees protected at least 170 customers, and many employees died in the process.
There are many familiar faces in the film. Uncle Armie Hammer of "Call Me By Your Name"
Dev Patel as Neal in "The Newsroom" and Nazanin Boniarty as Fara in "Homeland."
The film restores the entire process of the terrorist attack in a multi-line narrative. Watching the whole process, the atmosphere of tension and despair haunts my mind, hotel, room, opening the door, searching, just thinking of that picture, I unconsciously hold my breath.
Who is not afraid of the unknown. The suffocating and helpless desire to survive supports you. This movie has no protagonist halo, no superheroes. Some are just ordinary people, ordinary people like you. Ordinary people will kill, and ordinary people will save people.
War is ruthless, people have love. No matter what time it is, you can learn to understand the feelings from these image carriers and other channels, and be shocked by the existence of such non-private love.
At the end, I can't help but think of the recent Afghanistan issue. Those who fled with the plane but fell to their death, are they holding the mood of "jumping, even if they fall, they may fly"? So helpless, so helpless.
Hope they turn into birds and fly over the world peace.
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