Tonight we finally got around to watching this:
I have been wanting to watch it for a while, mainly because I love being able to pseudo experience real-life situations sort of, kind of how they actually
played out. Without doing much homework about this movie or the real situation, I think there is some controversy about how close Captain Phillips decided to cruise to the Somali coastline. There is speculation that his decision to cruise closer rather than further from shore put his boat on the pirates' radar.
Be that as it may, I think in legalistic terms, and hijacking a boat is wrong. Circumstances don't matter. Historical and socio-economic situations being what they are, can you imagine? Can you just imagine that you're at sea, doing your job, aware of the dangers out there somewhere...and then it happens
to you? You are boarded by pirates and you have no weapons and you are in the middle of the water and this could be it?
As a movie, it is very well done. Had I not already known how it ended, I would have given myself a headache; they did a great job of building suspense and making you feel like you were there, without much all-over-the-place, documentary-style videography (although there is some of that). Tom Hanks does a phenomenal job, as always, and so do the actors playing the Somali pirates. Without overacting, they portray how hopped up on khat and bat sh*t crazy the pirates must truly be. The fact that neither Captain Phillips nor any of his crew were killed is miraculous.
My blood pressure is sky high right now. Time to calm it down with some Willa Cather. Watch this movie - it's a good one.
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