If you saw a news report on TV or on the web about Somali pirates hijacking the captain of a cargo ship and blackmailing him, the U.S. Navy and SEALs teamed up to kill him and rescue the hostages safely, would you have any special feelings? I won't anyway. When this true story is brought to the movie screen, the real feeling may take your breath away.
This is a commercial film, not a documentary, so it is bound to be labeled some subjective and fictional. But I think this anti-terrorist movie has done a good enough job of realism. How real is it? After watching the entire film I asked myself a few questions: Is Captain Philip smart? Are the crew brave? Are pirates cruel? Are the navy heroes? nothing. This is not a black and white world, and people are not absolutely good and evil. How real is it? After watching the entire film, I asked myself what was the most impressive scene, and the answer was the short scene after Captain Philip was rescued. Although most people have not experienced the rest of their lives, Tom Hanks told us with his amazing acting skills, That's how it should be.
Although the title of the film is "Captain Philip", I think the film focuses on the two captains. Yes, there's Captain Pirate, that skinny mousse, and his performance in the film is also quite brilliant. He said he was a fisherman, and we have no reason not to believe it, at least he was. When Philip faced the pistol in the lifeboat and emphasized that he was not a fisherman, we can see the change in his expression and guess the change in his heart. When he has no fish to catch, when pirates become a scramble for a living, when he has a greedy boss, he has no choice. The lines that both captains have said more than once are: "Everything will be OK", but will it really be okay? When we see Navy's warships and SEAL's group of muscular men, we all know not. Philip knew not, and he told the pirates aloud, but the pirate captain said in his broken English that he had gone too far to go back. I believe that I am not the only one who has this idea. I hope that the pirates will leave with the money and that the tragedy in the future will not happen.
Mousse talked about his American dream several times, he would go to New York, he would buy a car. In the end he did go to America, to go to trial and jail. The biggest difference between him and Philip may be the difference in nationality. An international news I read a year ago is still fresh in my memory. Civil strife in Somalia continues and life is turbulent. The reporter interviewed an elderly man who was fleeing. She said that due to war and famine, six of eight members of her family died on the way. She had no tears when she said this. The report also mentioned that more than 300,000 people die each month in Somalia due to famine. There is a saying that "Fate is an excuse for the weak, and luck is the excuse of the strong", but fate is the best excuse I can find to explain this tragedy.
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