The world is also negotiating interests every day. Pakistan and Israel are discussing politics, the United States and China are discussing the economy, the police and gangsters are negotiating terms...
"Strategic Task Force" begins with a negotiation of interests.
A terrorist threatened the U.S. government with three miniature nuclear bombs to meet its demands, and the U.S. government sent negotiators to mediate.
Every day we make choices based on our own ethical standards. Whether to give change to a beggar, whether to speak ill of a person, or whether to hurt a friend for a fortune...
"Strategic Task Force" ends with a moral choice.
Would you be on the terrorist's side and hope the bomb would go off, or would you hope the bomb wouldn't go off?
Regarding the role
of the "Strategic Special Task Force" In this negotiation of the "Strategic Special Task Force", it can be divided into two camps and four roles.
The terrorist Yusuf (referred to as Youssef) and the U.S. government are two opposing camps, and the U.S. government is divided into female FBI Brody (referred to as Brody); negotiator H (referred to as H) and the U.S. government The mysterious spokesperson (referred to as the government).
Next I will try to analyze the negotiation and moral issues of these four characters in the film.
About negotiation
In an interest negotiation, there are the following elements:
your interests - the ultimate goal - the state of the balance you want in the end
your weight - negotiating capital - the other party cares about you, and you care about the other party
's bottom line ——The key point of maintaining this negotiation——the weakest point of one side of the scale arm, one end of the balance is broken and the negotiation collapses .
Your interests
are in the picture, and you can understand the interests as the final state you want.
Some people want the balance to tilt completely in their favor, and some interests may simply be maintaining a particular balance.
Many people often suffer losses in life or often fail to negotiate to a large extent because they do not know what they or the other party want. You should have been trying to make a big difference in the company, but you conflicted with the boss over the amount of salary increase and got fired; or you always spend money on your children to buy this and that, but in fact, your children may want you more attention...negotiations are most effective only when they see the real interests of oneself or others.
Next, let's take a look at the analysis of the interests of the four characters of the two camps in the film. What are the interests of
Yusuf?
The issue appears simple, and he wants the president to issue a statement that includes giving up any military and economic support to the Islamist puppet dictator and withdrawing troops from the Islamic State. And the deep meaning behind this interest is easy to understand, that is, as a follower of Islam, he hopes to bring peace to his compatriots who have suffered from war through his personal efforts.
Moreover, the film is also beginning to tell us that Yusuf's interests are only for declaration, not for killing. This is important because at about the same time, other characters also discovered the problem. Yusuf is not a lunatic, he is not a perverted murderer. Because all conditions indicated that Yusuf had the ability to build a nuclear bomb and detonate it secretly, but he did not, he chose to throw himself into the net. This explains why the government and even Brody once believed that there were no nuclear bombs at all and that everything was just a cover used by Yusuf to threaten the government.
He was arrested on his own initiative, hoping that the government could meet his demands, but is this his real interest?
What are the interests of the other party?
Brody, H, and other U.S. government officials have similar interests. Their common interest is to successfully resolve the bomb threat. The difference is that the
government's negotiating goal with terrorists is basically the same, that is, no conditions are met, and no losses are met... It sounds like a nonsense, and you want to get any benefits but don't want to pay. Yes, even if the kidnappers ask for $1, the government will not compromise, because the government considers the long-term interests of the country. If you only look at the immediate interests and pay $1 for a hostage, then tomorrow there will be thousands of kidnappers asking the government for 10, 100, 1000... So this explains why the government will never change for this 1 Political attitudes towards the Middle East over the centuries.
Unlike the government's long-term interests, Brody and H are more concerned with the immediate crisis.
Brody's role is that of a competent civil servant who is loyal to the country and who loves life. So in addition to removing the bomb threat, her interest is to save Yusuf's life. She believes that human rights are born, she adheres to the Geneva Conventions, and she firmly believes that if you don't cherish one person's life, how can you protect more people... So, at the beginning of the negotiation, her interest is to hope that everyone is safe.
H is the most attractive character in the film. He is the eagle dog of the state and the chamber pot of the government. He possesses the skills and means of extorting confessions by torture. He is protected or imprisoned by the country. He is abandoned by the country and used by the country at a critical moment. From the beginning of the negotiation, H did not believe his negotiating partner. What he wanted from Yusuf was not only the location of the three nuclear bombs, but also the fourth nuclear bomb...
The interests mentioned now are only that the negotiation balance has just been established. Up to all we can see. However, if the two sides do not add all the weights, they will not reveal their true interests.
Your weights
Let's talk about weights. Weights are the power that moves the balance, something both parties want to exchange, or something they care about. If you don't have the right weight, you won't be able to get on the table at all; and if you can't keep changing your weight and the opponent's weight, sooner or later you will be defeated by the other end.
The so-called appropriate weight varies according to the negotiating balance. In the society we live in, money seems to be an omnipotent weight. The more money, the heavier the weight. However, if it is in an endless desert, water is worth ten thousand taels of gold, and such things are not even worth a cent in normal times.
Therefore, the weight you take out must be valid in a certain negotiating balance.
What is Yusuf's weight?
Three miniature nuclear bombs, once detonated, will take tens of millions of lives. This is what Yusuf put on the table when he came up. But from the other end of the scale, although the opponent's weight is huge, a video alone cannot prove the weight. So, with their in-depth investigation and Yusuf's follow-up video, the identity of a nuclear-savvy expert and the fact that nearly 20 pounds of Russian nuclear material were stolen instantly weighed against Yusuf.
On the balance sheet of all negotiations with terrorists, the beginning is always an overwhelming situation for terrorists. Then it will be up to the government's response.
The weight of the government? The government's weight in the initial stage was pitifully low. Their arrest of Yusuf did nothing to his regular criminal interrogation. So the government sent two teams of negotiators with very different approaches to make the final bet.
Female FBI Brody and black negotiator H
one weight is - you will gain the
one you lose weight is - you will lose more of your only
Brody weight
Brody Di used the traditional and humane way of negotiating with terrorists. She collects her intelligence, family situation, life experiences, and more. She treats Yusuf well and asks about his wife and children. She showed her weight very early, and she exchanged the position of the three nuclear bombs with the peaceful life of a normal person.
H's weight
H uses an even older way of dealing with terrorists - torture. He cut off Yusuf's fingers and peeled off his nails. He will not use methods that can cause large-scale disability or death like the top ten tortures in China's Manchu and Qing Dynasties, but he can cause him huge physical pain and mental stimulation in a limited area, and more importantly, , he wants to tell Yusuf that if he insists on this negotiation, he will make Yusuf lose more.
As a result, such a negotiating balance is presented in front of us. One is Youssef, who controls the lives of tens of millions of people; the other is the U.S. government, which is powerless, so it uses two completely different chips to compete with it in turn.
Your bottom line The bottom line
here has two meanings, one is the maximum pressure you can bear in this negotiation. This is the maximum weight your balance lever can hold at the weakest point. When the weight of the two sides increases, the pressure on the bottom line increases until he can't bear the weight and breaks, and the whole negotiation collapses. And the second meaning is the means you use in order not to cross the bottom line, which can also be said to be the best alternative. Talk to your boss about a raise, and if you can't agree on an amount, your alternatives before your boss gets angry and fires you. This is not a compromise, but planned in advance.
Brody's bottom line
kid. It is easy to think that his two children are the most vulnerable places on his scale. Brody recognized this weakness early on, and continued to use giving to stimulate his bottom line. Give him a reunion with the children, give him to enjoy the children's love for him; and H also found out, but he did not use it early, but as his own killer.
And Brody's best alternative: Threatening to a child's life, revealing the location of three bombs.
The issue of the US government's bottom line
involves too much, so let's just talk about it.
What is the bottom line of the US government? Is it the life of the people? Can't simply say yes. The U.S. government's demands on Youssef remain unconsidered after a supermarket explosion killed dozens. I personally think it is in the overall interest of the country. Including foreign policy, including the interests of all classes, or simply the interests of maintaining the integrity of the country's politics and economy. (This place is really hard to say, so I put it on hold for the time being, please correct me.)
Relatively speaking, the government's best alternative is: the bomb explosion is acceptable, but it must ensure that the public cannot know about this negotiation, and the whole incident is classified as a Simply unsuspecting terrorist attacks and diverting people's attention to the intransigence of the terrorists rather than the government. (The proof is that the government's mysterious spokesperson said that all government officials had been in the nuclear bomb bunker, including his own family.)
Brody's bottom line
Brody's bottom line is life, but it keeps decreasing as the situation develops.
At first it was everyone's life, including Yusuf's; but when the bomb exploded in the mall, her bottom line began to drop. She no longer cared about Yusuf's life and stabbed him in the body with a scalpel. After that, she put Yusuf's wife's life aside and allowed H's behavior knowing that it might be dangerous. In the end, in the end, she gave up tens of millions of lives. At this moment, her bottom line is set in - the child's life.
So Brody's best alternative is this: she can accept any decision that doesn't violate human nature.
Let's talk about H's bottom line. H's bottom line can be said to be set very low from the beginning, and that is the principle of "win the king and lose the thief" that he firmly believes. As long as he wins, everything he does is right. Therefore, he knew very early that no matter what means he used, as long as he could get the location of the bomb, he would not be punished. His best alternative is also easy to understand: there is no alternative...all he does is keep increasing his weight until he fails.
So, we see a brief breakdown after H's torture of Yusuf's body is completely ineffective. But he turned to Brody for help. Because from the beginning of the film, when H chose Brody to join his negotiating balance, he used Brody as his umbrella. When Brody didn't stop himself, he continued with his method; and when Brody finally rejected his last demands, he realized that he could win the negotiating scale with Yusuf (I also believe that if Yusuf would compromise on the child), but was never able to win the negotiating scale with Brody, so he admitted defeat.
The above is my analysis of the four characters in the film on the balance of this interest negotiation.
The next text is about ethics.
Let me tell you an old story about morality
: on a herringbone track, a train came galloping from a distance, and some workers on the two feeder tracks were working and didn't notice the arrival of the train. One has one person, one has three people, and you are just standing at the distant railway console. You can't keep those four people off the tracks, the only thing you can do is use a wrench to decide which branch line the train goes to, how do you choose?
This is what we often call the "ethical dilemma". In an ethical dilemma, no matter what choice everyone makes, everyone faces a clear conflict between several moral imperatives, a situation in which compliance with one will violate the other.
Let's go back to these four characters.
What I want to ask is, whose side will you be on?
The film begins with
Yusuf: a man with an Islamic name, recording a video.
Brody: A strong woman who likes to tease children, leads well and is respected.
H: A black man enjoying family fun with monitors in his home.
America: A country we are all familiar with...
are we starting to make our choices now?
The end of the film
Yusuf : an American who served in the US military and believed in Islam. His country is taking a toll on his beliefs, and U.S. foreign policy has plunged Islamic nations into years of war. He will use his own methods to force the US government to change, he has built a nuclear bomb, and he has threatened the US government with tens of millions of lives. He did not choose to release the video, because he was worried that his actions would trigger a chain reaction and cause more unnecessary harm to the American people in the future, so he took the initiative to be arrested, tortured, and offered to negotiate; but he detonated a supermarket bomb to This increases the weight. He loves his wife, he loves his children, but he can only watch others take his wife's life and almost hurt his own children. He detonated the fourth bomb, his purpose was achieved, he planned to detonate the bomb from the beginning because he knew the US government would not compromise. His ultimate goal is to make the U.S. government reflect on the terrible facts.
Brody: A good guy in the conventional sense. Taking her work seriously and responsibly, she fought against H's abuse of Yusuf with her own moral standards, and has been working hard to protect Yusuf and the country she loves. However, it is very interesting that Brody is the only protagonist in the whole film who has no family and no children. She dedicates everything to her career. She talks about the importance of family and children, but she has never experienced it. She was called hypocrisy by Yusuf, when in fact she took up a scalpel and became another H when she learned that dozens of people had died in the bomb. She once opposed H in such a way that she gave up an opportunity to prevent H from continuing to commit violence, and when the time was urgent, she became the spokesperson of the US government, letting H "do what he needs to do". When Brody faced the final test, she finally stood by her moral choice, and would rather sacrifice thousands of people than hurt a pair of innocent children with her own hands.
H: A negotiator who masters torture. In order to find out the whereabouts of the bomb, they resorted to all extreme means. He was not looking for the thrill of abuse, but really to protect his own people. He loves his wife and children, but he can also use his life to kill Yusuf's wife, and he can even threaten him with Yusuf's children. When everyone was against his methods, he still went his own way, because he knew what he was doing and what he wanted; and when everyone wanted him to continue his methods, he chose Brody for him choose. Let the people he thinks have the most integrity help him make decisions. And in the end, he changed his original principles and chose a new path.
When the film ends, who will your moral choice be? Like I started asking, do you want the bomb to go off, or not?
A few last bits and pieces
1. Islam is the second largest religion in the world. Among the world's population of about 6.8 billion, the total number of Muslims is 1.57 billion, accounting for 23% of the world's total. That is to say, some people will think that 23% of the people in the world are terrorists...
2. Before the "9•11" incident, the Middle East was only one of the strategic priorities of the United States, and its position was after Europe and East Asia . After the "9•11" incident, the United States adjusted its global strategy, and anti-terrorism, anti-proliferation, and transformation of the Islamic world became new strategic goals.
3. Regarding the three bomb locations mentioned in the film, the last one "under the basement of No. 1533 Smith Road, Dallas" may be the picture below (data source Google Maps)
4. The assistant in the film H is very eye-catching, from his transformation It can be seen that he also has principles.
5. The heroine Brody has undergone what appears to be a transition from "relativist" to "absolutist". Absolutism is a philosophical theory of value as opposed to relativism. It is believed that the so-called truth and value can exist objectively and absolutely forever. And this truth can only be described in one way. Relativism believes that values vary with social culture and individual background, and no value can be universally applied in all time and space. A value is correct only because it matches the public perception of the time. To be more precise, it should be said that whatever is established under its value system, the value in its value system is relatively correct.
(When I think of it, I will add it)
wonderful lines:
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H: There is no H and Young, only victory and defeat. The victors occupy the moral high ground, because history is written by the victors. Losers just fail.
H: No matter how strong a person is, he has a lie to support him. I will find it and destroy you.
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Yusuf: I love my country, but you are trampling on it. I love my faith, but you insult religion. Remember, I'm here because I want to be here. I'm throwing myself in because I'm not a coward. I choose to face my oppressors, you can call me a barbarian, but who are you? 50 few civilians just want me to cry? That's the number of people you kill every day. How are you feeling, Brody, it's not my problem, it's yours. how do you feel? You have no right to call the shots here. Only one person has power, this person is not you, you are evil, you are cancer...
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H: Do you believe I will do it?
Brody: He believed it, he believed it.
H: It's not enough to believe, he has to know.
Brody: He got it!
H: Knowing is not enough, he has to see with his own eyes.
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