Yesterday I watched one of the highly rated movie – Captain Phillips. This makes it sound like the movie beats the hell out of me. Believe me you feel like you are abducted. Many times in the early 2010 i read about Gulf of Aden. This picture gave me lot of answers about how things happen in that Gulf. Even though there is only 5 minutes of initial intro in Somalia, those minutes display the true life of Somalis. After watching the movie, my son said Tom Hanks looks like the real captain and the real captain looks like an actor.
The doomed voyage in Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips begins where bad action-thrillers often climax: amid shipping containers. The camera hovers above stacks and stacks of big, bright, 8-by-40-foot rectangles. What the shot establishes is a location. We’re at the Port of Salalah in Oman. But the stacks also establish the stakes of the stress and emotional devastation to come. Once the ship is hijacked, every shot that features even a bit of all that tonnage recasts it: Lots of men and women risk their lives to make and deliver goods that some people take for granted. A world away, some other people covet what those goods signify. A few of those people become pirates. And, astonishingly, this movie is as much about them as it is about their victims.
Captain Phillips is indeed a gripping, grueling, agonizing, nail-biting, brutalizing, kick-punching motion picture, but beyond the technical thrills and vise-grip tension, it also offers a weary, hard-won empathy.
This is a film about bigness and smallness. The five men bob atop the Gulf of Aden as if they were in a toddler’s bath-time tugboat. Both the captain and his captors are tiny players in a larger geopolitical configuration. The framing bears this out. There’s more than one shot of the lifeboat shown not far from a U.S. destroyer. Early on, the Somalis’ approaching skiff shares the camera frame with the container ship, which tries to maneuver away from the smaller, nimbler boat. There’s also the relentlessness of America’s first-class military focusing on four men from a Third World nation, the undeniable appeal of Hanks’s stardom versus the relative anonymity of his costars (though the movie certainly closes the gap there, especially with Barkhad Abdi, who carves out a moving performance), and the achievement of Hanks bringing his stardom to bear on this small, intense feat of acting.
Tom Hanks plays Phillips, captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, and Billy Ray’s script is based on Phillips’ book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea, co-written with Stephan Talty.
Over and over in this movie we hear variations on the phrase “everything’s going to be OK.“That’s actually untrue.
Real Captain and the Cast:
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Phillips_(merchant_mariner)
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Initial release: October 10, 2013
Director: Paul Greengrass
Running time: 134 minutes
Screenplay: Billy Ray
Story by: Richard Phillips, Stephan Talty
Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
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Sridar.com Rating: 7.5
Worth Watching ****
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