The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is commonly known as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). For Chinese audiences, this institution is a symbol of immigration to the United States (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement also undertakes part of the immigration management function), which is very exciting for many For Chinese viewers of the "American Dream", getting the approval of the US Immigration Service means that they have taken the most critical step to realize this dream.
Interestingly, the Somali pirate Musser in "Captain Philip" also had the same dream. After hijacking the captain of the "Maersk Alabama" cargo ship Richard Philip, Musser said that he would go to the United States in the future. , Living in New York, but also to buy a car-this Somali pirate who took risks because of poverty finally partially realized his "American Dream": After three of his accomplices were headshot by the snipers of the US Navy SEALs, Mousai, who stupidly ran to the U.S. warship to negotiate, was arrested and was imprisoned in a U.S. prison after being tried by a U.S. court.
It is also adapted from real battles, but compared with the SEALs in "Assassination of Bin Laden", the American soldiers and intelligence personnel in "Captain Philip" are much more wise and powerful, even the civilian cargo ship "Maersk Alabama" The crew of the ship (the ship is registered in Denmark, but the crew is all American, and the American flag is also flying on board)'s crew are also far more capable of responding to emergencies than those pirate mobs-they are indeed trained in anti-piracy, and the pirates are hijacking After the cargo ship was unsuccessful, Captain Philip was hurriedly hijacked onto a lifeboat. So, to rescue the lifeboat, the U.S. Navy sent destroyers and even amphibious assault ships (light aircraft carriers). There were helicopters in the sky, warships on the surface, and underwater. There are frogmen. From nearby snipers to satellites in outer space, Americans have their sights aimed at this small boat on the ocean. At the same time, American intelligence agencies are also operating efficiently. It didn’t take long for them to be completely Find out the names of the four pirates and the villages where they are located, thus gaining a huge psychological advantage in the negotiation.
Tom Hanks plays Captain Philip. Of course, the audience knows that the hero won’t have any trouble in the end-when Uncle Tom Hanks stood up and saw the American warship in the distance through the window of the lifeboat, he murmured to the pirates around him. , "It's over", it's a pity that the pirates didn't follow the captain's advice and were killed in the end.
The famous Western Han Dynasty general Chen Tang gave a comment to the Emperor of Han Yuan and said a famous saying: "Those who commit a strong man will be punished even if they are far away." This sentence has made countless Chinese sons and daughters enthusiastic for more than two thousand years. "It seems that this is exactly the "American Emperor" vividly interpreting the creed that "everyone who violates an American citizen will be punishable even if he is far away" with a movie (of course based on real war cases). Captain Philip was hijacked. It was the first incident of pirate hijacking in the U.S. in more than 200 years of history. It’s a small matter, but the country’s protection of citizens’ right to life is huge—it takes so much manpower and material resources to save a person. The economic accounts were a mess, but the political accounts and public opinion accounts once again won the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of people (the filming method of the "pseudo documentary" adds to the credibility of the film).
After traveling to the United States, Baudrillard said that it was a "realized utopia", and the construction of this "utopia" first came from the full protection of every citizen's life and property rights under the legal environment.
Why do those people want to immigrate to the U.S. even after squeezing their heads? I think a look at "Captain Philip" may be able to understand part of the reason.
(Published in "China News Weekly" 2014 Issue 1)
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