Based on true events, the sensational Mumbai hotel was thrilled throughout the whole process
People living in peaceful countries may never understand how horrific those terrorist attacks are. I still vividly remember one morning in April, when I opened the news, I saw a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, eight explosions across the country, killing more than 300 people and injuring more than 500 people, 13 extremists of the Islamic militant group. After the incident, the whole country was grieved.
Today's recommended film is also related to the terrorist attack and is based on real events that took place in Mumbai from November 26-29, 2008. "Hotel Mumbai" was released in 2018, with a length of 125 minutes and a Douban score of 8.3. In the real incident, in addition to carrying out indiscriminate murder in Mumbai hotels, ten terrorists also dropped bombs in public places such as Mumbai railway stations and hospitals, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 300 people, the last one was captured alive, and the other nine were killed.
The film focuses on the most eye-catching five-star Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. At the beginning of the film, the camera focuses on Arjun, a waiter at a hotel in Mumbai, and from the time he says goodbye to his children and wife and goes to work at the hotel, everything seems to be normal except that he has lost his shoes. In the film, we can see that the Mumbai hotel has a very strict management of its staff, and the kitchen staff has to go through the chef's strict inspection every day, from nails to hair accessories to dress.
The chef is a strict person, seeing Arjun wearing sandals to work is naturally not OK, I wanted to drive Arjun home, but Arjun begged him, after all, there are still children waiting to be fed at home, and his wife is about to give birth. So the chef let Arjun change into the slippers of his office, this scene is worth recalling, because the chef's kindness left Arjun, so that the hotel people later evacuated a lot of help, and Arjun because he put on the shoes of the crowded feet, did not try to fight for the opportunity to go out to buy, to avoid death.
Later, the terrorist attack outside the hotel began, and the terrorists followed the flow of people to the Mumbai hotel and began to shoot a wide range of guns, both men, women and children. They carried headphones with them, they were always under the command of the organizers, they were very young, and the purpose of doing all this was to exchange money for mail to their families after killing people, and they came to die. This film has no starring role, nor does it have the aura of a protagonist, in some critical moments, I thought that what would happen to the usual movie routine would happen, but no, whether it is a Russian tycoon worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or a young father with a protagonist's face, in front of terrorists, can not be spared.
When one of the terrorists took a gun to clean up the scene, he heard the woman reciting the verses in the Quran and began to wonder, even if the leader on the other end of the phone asked him to shoot, he was also entangled in not being able to do it, and the confusion in his heart was afraid that he had not solved before he died, why he was obviously a Muslim, but he also wanted him to shoot and kill. A large part of the responsibility for the casualties in this incident lies in the negligence and negligence of the Indian government, knowing that only a few terrorists can cause so much damage, and the emergency special forces have to be transferred from far away, which has been delayed for a long time.
In this incident, the hotel's employees suffered heavy casualties to protect the hotel's guests, especially the hotel's chef, in a critical moment, the first thing that came to mind was not to escape, but to organize the evacuation of guests to a safe place, which was real in the incident. It has been impossible to understand what the belief in terrorism really is, and if it is to bring harm and suffering to others, then what reason is there to worship.