Although he will not sympathize with those underage pirates who may not even have shoes because of this, there is indeed no reason to really hate them.
Paul Greengrass may not be a director who is good at showing suspenseful scenes or playing with fancy footage. Under his lens, all the storylines are as real and believable as news documentaries (maybe some people I can't bear that kind of dangling...). I don't know what Richard Phillips is in real life. I have never read the documentary literature written by him. The impression of the captain of the ocean freighter is only based on news reports. And Richard Phillips, played by Tom Hanks, is like an Old papa, serious, persistent, reliable, and safe. In short, he walks with him and will never fall into the ditch.
But there is no ditch in the sea.
In addition to the blue sky and white clouds, tsunami and storms, there are also pirates who are mysterious.
With the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991, the Gulf of Aden has become one of the most dangerous sea areas. Due to the compromise between ship owners and governments, pirates have become a low-input and high-return "professional" (only in 2008, ship owners and other countries The government gave Somali pirates a total of 120 million U.S. dollars in ransom). In the Gulf of Aden, getting rich overnight is no longer an unattainable dream. As long as you succeed once, you can get rid of poverty. Then you can drive a boat to fish in the waves, you can buy a luxury house, you can marry a wife, you can buy a sports car, of course, you can also go to the United States to live a new life, just like the dream of the Moose "Captain" in the movie.
Is America really as beautiful as it dreamed of?
It may or may not be.
Is there any other option besides being a pirate?
In the film, since he boarded the Alabama, the pirate Moose said the most: "Don't worry, everything will be fine." This is not so much for the crew and captain who are threatened to be kidnapped. Consolation, it is better to say that this sentence is actually comforting himself. In the eyes of the pirate who does not seem to be that smart, he is holding a cargo ship, kidnapping a captain, and then getting the ransom, and then everything will be fine. Got up. It's hard not to describe this kind of thinking as naive, and it's hard not to feel that there is a kind of helplessness behind such naivety. When Phillips suggested to the pirates that there should be other options besides fishing and robbery, Moose replied in blunt English: "It might be in the United States." The first answer was to Phillips, who had become a hostage. Yes, when he repeated it a second time, his gaze had moved away, and there was a certain pain in his tone.
After all, no one is born as a pirate, and no one is born as a bad person.
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