Resistance, justice and violence

Johnathan 2021-12-15 08:01:12

The film has created three images, which are the incarnations of three different forces, for the time being called resistance, justice and violence.

The female agent Brody can be regarded as "just", this role is quite well-formed, and she often behaves hard to make a choice. She is embarrassed by the brutal H and ranted and questioned by the "terrorists". In the end, the director and screenwriter carried away the two children with the intention of sublimating the theme.

The brutal H, who had done a lot of evil in the past, was protected from assassination by the US imperial government, and was discovered by everyone because of his wife. Protected by others, H's duty is to help the US imperial government do some shameful things. It can also be seen from the movie that this person has rich experience and strong vigilance, and is always afraid that the US imperial government will use him as a substitute for death. What is the metaphor for this role?

Third, this is the "terrorist", he is a native of the United States, and he has been well-trained. Other clues in the film are available. His nuclear material came from Russia. It was stolen while taking advantage of the other party's "sloppy" when he went to Russia for inspections with the U.S. imperial inspectors. Are the three or four bombs he said? Nuclear bomb, still don't know.

There seems to be no answer to why "terrorists" want to bomb the United States. First, he was deliberately arrested, and then he made a statement to the U.S. President before being tortured, but he did not ask to be broadcast. It seems that he also thinks this kind of modern model drama similar to "the Taliban issued a statement indicating responsibility" is meaningless. Perhaps the more credible part is the roar to the female agent.

What problem did the three forces of resistance, justice and violence solve in the end? Why is there one after the bomb is destroyed? Why didn't the "terrorist" shoot H who had tortured him for so long when he finally got the gun, instead he shot himself with a bullet? And why did he have to be arrested a few days in advance? Is it just to experience the "test"? Also, why did the U.S. emperor want to bring people like H back to the country and properly settle them, while the citizens of this country have become terrorists? Is the last bomb a nuclear bomb? Please think, can it be thinkable?

As for some people who can see from the movie what Professor Sandel’s speech or what Bin Laden will do in YY's trial, the old man has no choice but to express regret for this level of appreciation.

The first is that the movie did not make each character face-to-face;

Secondly, this movie may have another ending, that is, Brody and others acquiesce in H killing the two children, and the "terrorists" are not willing to suffer and commit suicide-----this means the conscience is destroyed and the constitution surrenders. (Recall the plot in the movie: H said: If the nuclear bomb exploded, the constitution would not exist. But the reality is that the nuclear bomb is true or not, and the constitution has ceased.) In this case, The bomb finally exploded, and it was a nuclear bomb. Do you still think killing two children can save thousands of children?

It's a pity that the screenwriter was sublimated in the end. Brody shouted: "We are humanbeing" and took away two children. Yes, "Even at the most fearful moment, we Americans still have to have a conscience"-this is what the movie wants to say.

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  • Agent Helen Brody: You know. You know what he does...

    Rina Humphries: Of course.

    Agent Helen Brody: How can you? You family, you children. You live in the same house with him. He's not normal.

    Rina Humphries: Normal? Let me tell you something. I lost my first family in Bosnia. Three men come to my house. They rape me in front of my family, then kill everyone. My little boy, they kill last. These were my neighbors, they knew me. Very normal men.

    [turns away]

  • Agent Helen Brody: Can't you see that you've already won? You've proved that we are exactly the kind of people we say we aren't.