Film review: 'Captain Philip', only one percent of the film has been changed
This is a movie based on real events. Unlike a completely fictional movie, the rationality and logic will no longer be brought out in this movie.
"Captain Philip" basically restores the truth of the incident, and the modified part may only account for one percent.
In April 2009, the USS Alabama was attacked by Somali pirates. A large freighter was indeed hijacked by four pirates. The purpose of the pirates was to extort ransom, and there were no major casualties among the crew, which seemed to be the only consolation.
Compared to other terrorist attacks, like 9/11 and the New Zealand shootings, terrorists and extremists caused a huge disaster. In today's world, firearms have completely opened the gap between armed personnel and unarmed people. Those who abuse force pose a threat to the world, and civilians also need weapons to defend themselves.
The Alabama ship in this film is a cargo ship that is not equipped with weapons and military strength. When it is attacked by pirates, the resistance of the crew is at a huge disadvantage. The crew had to use inefficient means to stop the pirates from boarding, but it turned out that the tactics they had been trained on didn't work at all, and it only took 4 pirates with guns to take them down.
Captain Philip used the radio to spread the false information that reinforcements were dispatched from the US Navy and successfully frightened most of the pirates. If we look at the outcome of the incident, we can't help but be glad that most of the pirates were scared away at that time, otherwise The number of pirates on board may exceed 10, then the outcome of the event will be different, and it is possible that the Alabama was really robbed. This typical case of the US Navy's successful hostage rescue will no longer exist, and of course it may become more brilliant.
Those assumptions aside, back to the film. Narratively speaking, 99 percent of this movie is true, so what is the quality of it?
It can be said that its narrative ability is excellent. Its unhurried rhythm keeps the whole story in a state of tension. The movie tells the audience clearly from the very beginning: Pirates robbed a freighter and kidnapped Captain Philip. Then the fate of the ship and the captain has become the theme throughout the whole book, and every paragraph in it also shows the director's profound narrative skills. As the director who directed "The Bourne 3", Greengrass's technique is indeed quite skilled.
From the beginning, the story will be told about whether the ship will fall, and the process of dismantling the crew and pirates is described with a lot of ink. But there is no dazzling fire and special effects here, because the style of the film tends to be documentary.
After the pirates boarded the ship, the captain and two crew members fell under the guns of the pirates. The core issue of this section was to save lives and find a way to turn the situation around. During this confrontation, the hidden crew captured a pirate in exchange for control of the Alabama. The fundamental reason was that the crew had seized weapons, which qualified them for negotiation.
Next, the pirates kidnapped Captain Philip as they left the ship. A group of people took a lifeboat and headed to the coast of Somalia. From here until the end, the life and death of Captain Philip becomes the central issue.
In the end, of course, Captain Philip was rescued, three pirates were killed and one was captured. Justice has triumphed.
The film seems to be deliberately avoiding the idea of heroism, so at the end of the film, there is a scene where Captain Philip faces the doctor. This scene has completely become the finale of Tom Hanks' performance skills. Of course, I don't mean to belittle this Mr. Hanks, and the performance of this paragraph really impressed me very much.
Hanks took Captain Philip into a state of disorientation and lingering fears after experiencing the composure of the pirates and the hysteria after his captivity until he was rescued. This performance conquered many audiences. And this paragraph also tries to tell the audience that Captain Philip is not an almighty hero, he is an ordinary person who has just experienced extraordinary things.
At this point, I can't help but recall that the title of the film is "Captain Philip," not "Alabama."
So this film is not a narrative-focused movie, but a character-focused one.
If you put aside the reality and only watch this film, the image of Captain Philip is still very successful. But when combined with reality, we know that the real Captain Philip is one percent different from the character Hanks plays. The real Philip went through all the events of being kidnapped, but he didn't do anything to sacrifice himself for the safety of the crew. After the incident, the crew also took the captain and the shipping company to court, because Captain Philip did not listen to the warning and stayed away from the Somali waters, but sailed into a more dangerous area.
For a heroic character, his heroic behavior does not exist, it is not even fabricated, but reversed and rewritten. This change has gone beyond fiction to become hypocrisy. Such a hero does not exist after all.
This approach is debatable!
If it wasn't one percent Captain Philip and one hundred percent Alabama, the movie would be a different, maybe more banal, maybe more tangled, but certainly not It's overshadowing my viewing experience as it is now.
Therefore, the 1% that has been changed touches the core of human nature. It is the root of this film. It is equivalent to 1% of talent, and it is more important than 99% of sweat.
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