Blackwater
Director: Todd Hines
Writers: Nathaniel Richie / Mario Correa
Matthew Michael Kanahan
Starring: Mark Ruflo / Anne Hathaway
Tim Robbins / Bill Kemp / Victor Garbo
Genre: Drama
Country of Production: United States
Release: 2019-11-22
Flip through a lot of information just to find the truth.
We often hear the saying that the person who knows the times is Junjie. This long-standing old saying is not only spoken by us, but also by foreigners. To put it more bluntly, where there are people on this earth, they will say this, or think so. But in the face of injustice, in the face of the shamelessness of the evil, there will always be some people who dare to break this concept and interpret what courage, what is responsibility, and what is justice with behaviors that ordinary people cannot understand.
Tom Terp is one such hero.
Final court statement
Tom Terp is a lawyer in the ascendancy of his career. There are beautiful wives, lovely children, stable jobs, and a lot of income. The companies he serves are the number one chemical group in the United States, and the background and power are impeccable, so to speak, as long as it continues, the future development space is unlimited.
But on this day, the hometown came. Former fellow villagers turned to him for help in investigating west Virginia's growing ecological devastation. Inexplicably crazy cattle, water that directly affects the health of the locals, and beef products that mutate after irrigation and drinking.
In the spirit of more than less, he rushed to the battle, and found an official document from UNEP to consult with the DuPont CEO to try to solve the problem of land, survival and development in the simplest way. But as the events unfolded, various clues were revealed, and countless cases surfaced, Tom Terp found that things were not so simple.
The big guys of capital are not afraid of the law at all
This is not an ecological disaster for a person, a farm, or a state, but an artificial disaster involving oneself, one's family, or even the United States or the world. The towering DuPont Company used its power to kidnap the U.S. Environment Agency and other relevant departments, using a paper of paper to cover up the existential crisis caused by Teflon.
With the further investigation of the case, the truth is constantly disclosed, he was demoted, paid a reduction, reprimanded by the entire industry, and even more wanton revenge, so that he and his family and friends suffered threats to the safety of their lives...
The confidence of the system is based on conscience,
In my opinion, there are always some films that have transcended the value and meaning of the film itself. Blackwater is like that. The topic of this film goes far beyond the film itself. The Hulk joins forces with Catwoman, without presenting any action, love, or action love part, but giving people infinite thought. This film has a strong impetus to the progress of the legal system in American society, especially under the kidnapping of large groups.
If you have money, can you really do whatever you want?
The judiciary, legislation, and law enforcement departments really don't understand it, or do they pretend not to understand it?
To be sure, Blackwater was shot so steadily that it felt like it was a work from the 1990s. However, the dark picture tone of the whole film, with the development of the plot, gives people a feeling of discomfort that is faintly painful, which sets off the theme very well. The seemingly casual camera performance presents a calm restraint like a news investigation through different characters, different environments, and different moods.
It is also this kind of calm and restrained exposure that allows more people to see the lax side of the US judiciary. The protagonist's behavior of "ignorance of current affairs" has promoted the social thinking and attention of the entire United States to the civilian part of the chemical industry outside the film, and has also strengthened the vigilance and monitoring of the public against the government and companies.
On the one hand, environmental pollution, on the other hand, economic development
A good movie is not only to make people laugh, but also to promote and promote the development of society. This is true of South Korea's "Melting Pot", so is "Blackwater" in the United States, and it is also true of "I Am Not a Medicine God". Filmmakers with conscience and a sense of public welfare have accelerated social progress through good works. And we hope that there are more and more such works, and the social attention is getting higher and higher.
But jumping out of the movie, we still feel the powerlessness of reality. Taking this film as an example, if it were not for the insistence of Tom Terp and West Virginia herders, how long would Teflon be used? And how many people can understand and help the social pressures and threats to the lives of Tom Terp and his family?
Only you can rely on yourself
In the face of reality, good people are always scarred, while evildoers are often safe and sound. The teacher who reported the principal's corruption in Hunan was buried alive under the playground, and if it were not for the exhumation of the body, it would certainly not be able to sink the snow; and the well-known domestic dairy predator and the secret song of the Dairy Products Association also let people see what is the tacit understanding of cooperation, which makes people shoot the case, and the defenders of the melamine incident were imprisoned for five years, and who dared to help him shout all the time? Today, a resident in Hunan reported that the whole family was cut down by littering, which also attracted great attention from the society, and then, how about catching a few small fish and shrimp, what about the big boss?
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We are a sensual people. So it's always going to be swayed by all sorts of high-profile propaganda or extreme emotions. For example, in the face of the great righteousness of the country, we must maintain unity, which is a necessary quality for a nation. But in the face of injustice and ugliness in daily life, where are our emotions? And who gives the evildoers so much courage that we can always calm our emotions?
There is a line in the movie "Old Cannon" that is particularly realistic: There are some things that we, the little people, cannot imagine. We have no intention of morally kidnapping anyone, any organization or company, but in the face of problems, we must always dare to understand, to investigate, to face, to solve. If it was just to solve the problem of the person who asked the problem, not to solve the problem, would the society be better?
Will the world be better?
The issues of environmental justice in the United States, which are covered in Blackwater, are a mirror. When ordinary people can only be concealed, deceived, and there are many people who know the times, why does only one person dare to stand up? This has nothing to do with academic qualifications, not with identity, and with social responsibility. If there is not a single Prometheus, will the world still be bright? Why does it always take Promi to rest and endure torture in order to have a new situation? And how many more evildoers are to be held accountable?
And such a powerful and state-bound large enterprise as DuPont, their heads are not only difficult to be held accountable, any doubt about them will not be understood as unpatriotic, and the emotional public will be driven by public opinion, so that DuPont executives such a high-ranking person can go unpunished.
Get back on track and stick to the bottom line
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