Reflections behind entertainment

Ruthie 2021-12-23 08:01:59

Taking the extradition policy adopted by the U.S. government after 9/11 as the starting point and background, the film integrates politics, war, horror and many other elements. After the 9/11 incident, Hollywood set its sights on the political and military issues caused by the terrorist attacks, and shot a series of anti-terrorist film works, "Anti-Terrorism Suspicious Clouds" is one of them.
Different from the core of other films of the same type, the core of "Anti-Terrorism Suspicion" is to pose a serious question to people-is it a sensible way to sacrifice one's rights in order to potentially save thousands of lives? practice. It can be said that the viewing of the film is quite good, and the entertainment behind it is more worthy of reflection.
A collection of Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Jack Gyllenhaal, Alan Akin and many other actresses and actresses, it can be called a luxurious cast. The producers also recruited South African director Gavin Hood, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, directed by Gavin Hood, all showing his ambition to rejuvenate anti-terrorism themes.
In the method of storytelling, a combination of multi-line parallelism and flashback is adopted, so that the whole story is not too flat and loses entertainment. The focus of the film itself is not only to expose and question the policies and methods adopted by the United States on terrorism after 9/11, but also to criticize and reveal the bureaucracy and human nature to a certain extent. But precisely because the film carries too much information, the interspersed plot also appears to be too scattered, making the film as a whole slightly lacking in drama.
In general, the performance of the luxurious actors and actresses is brilliant enough to make up for the shortcomings of the film's formality. Moreover, the film oscillates between exposing darkness and sensationalism. Many details cannot withstand scrutiny and are not enough to demonstrate the humanistic care of the film.

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Rendition quotes

  • Corrine Whitman: Honey, this is nasty business. There are upwards of 7,000 people in central London alive tonight, because of information that we elicited just this way. So maybe you can put your head on your pillow and feel proud for saving one man while 7,000 perish, but I got grandkids in London, so I'm glad I'm doing this job... and you're not.

  • Corrine Whitman: Why don't you ask your boss how badly he really does want to stick his neck out for a terrorist.

    Alan Smith: Well, he might for due process. Maybe I should have a copy of the Constitution sent to your office.