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Question: Who brings the entire hostage episode to a close?.GUNS SOONER OR LATERįor those who think disarming law-obeying people is the key to dealing with deadly violence, it’s impossible to ignore the great irony of Captain Phillips: The international shipping industry seems to stand by the political logic of many Americans: Where there’s much gun violence, the last thing we want is more guns! So if there’s much gun violence in the seas off the Somali coast, then it must be wise to disarm law-abiding cargo ships, right? It’s almost laughable, if only it wasn’t so dangerously wrong. Why, after all, would a handful of tribal Somali thugs with a couple of rickety little skiffs try to hijack a massive, modern, high-tech freight ship? Answer: the ship is a gun-free zone, and everyone knows it.
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PREYīut the whole theme of the movie is natural fact of predator and prey, and the grossly immoral idea of creating gun-free zones-which is on the high seas, in the case of Captain Phillips They settle instead on trying to steal from those people who have produced much-people who enjoy the protection of property rights and the many incentives fueled by that protection. Somalis can invent, innovate, produce, and work, too.įor now, however, the poor in Somalia produce little because any wealth they create or property they earn is very unprotected and likely to be taken away. You’ll see that with the right kind of political reform, all the economic growth and prosperity that has been possible in America can be possible in Somalia, too. With Captain Phillips, Greengrass goes further than simply maintaining dramatic tension, delivering an intense, gripping and interesting film.Why is it possible to work one’s way out of poverty in America, but not in Somalia?Īnswer that question, and you’ll discover the almost-magical power of property rights coupled with the rule of stable, knowable laws. It is always impressive when a film based on high profile actual events, and therefore with a known resolution, manages to create and maintain legitimate dramatic tension. The humanising of the Somali pirates is helped by the fact that despite being the villains of the film, they are also consistently the underdogs, and as an audience there is something in us which is compelled to sympathise with the underdog. Instead of one collection of bad guys we see four distinctly different men, displaying different emotions and reacting to the experience, and to the figure of Phillips, in individual ways. In doing so he gives us access to those characters. Greengrass breaks from Phillips’ point of view by subtitling the Somali characters, so that unlike Phillips we can always understand what they are saying.
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One of the great strengths of Captain Phillips is the way that it chooses to humanise the Somali characters when it so easily could have presented them as a terrifying other. Hanks’ performance is complemented by some equally strong work from the supporting cast, most notably the four first time actors who deliver impressively nuanced performances as the Somali pirates. The film’s final scenes, in which Phillips, who has to this point been so measured, is simply unable to process the incredible ordeal he has just been through, are devastatingly effecting and some of the best screen acting you will ever see. The brilliance of Hanks’ performance is that so much of it is about what the character is thinking. A veteran seaman, Phillips is a cool head under pressure and a quick thinker.
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Captain Phillips is intense, gripping storytelling.Įmotionally, the film is carried by a stunning performance from Tom Hanks. But don’t let Greengrass’ devotion to detail and process fool you into thinking this film is in any way bland. We see not only how a small group of pirates can take possession of a massive container ship, but also the processes the container ships go through in the face of a pirate threat. Almost a docu-drama, the film shows us how high seas piracy functions in the modern world. Part of what makes Captain Phillips so interesting is the procedural nature of the film. While we have all heard about Somali pirates, the notion of seafaring pirates seems so old-fashioned that it is, for the uninitiated, difficult to fathom how the practice still takes place. In 2009, international headlines were made when Richard Phillips, the captain of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama, was taken hostage by Somali pirates for four days before being rescued by the US Navy and now Paul Greengrass has brought the story to the screen in the impressive Captain Phillips.