Even more terrible than natural disasters is man-made disasters!
Eleven years ago, a terrorist attack in Mumbai shocked the world and was called "the most horrific night ever".
You know, from the first gunshot, the whole journey lasted about 60 hours, killing 195 people and injuring 295 people.
The tragedy was caused by 10 terrorists.
They carry out weapons in bus stations, markets, luxury hotels and other bustling places, while carrying out torture activities, and the five-star Taj Mahal Hotel is one of the targets of the attack.
The scene is unimaginable.
And just last year, it was adapted into a movie, douban scored as high as 8.3, better than the 94 thriller.
It's a suffocating experience!
It is no exaggeration to say that the film begins with a tense atmosphere of tension and continues until the end.
Because some of the images are too brutal, it is graded R.
When it was screened at this year's Beijing Film Festival, it was cut to 107 minutes.
And as a multinational co-production, its cast is very strong -
Amy Hammer ("Call Me By Your Name"), Dave Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Jason Isaac (Harry Potter)...
However, unlike previous disaster films, "Hotel Mumbai" does not have too much sensationalism, nor does it seek fancy big scenes, but calmly and restrainedly records this tragic event.
The biggest feeling after reading it is the word "real"!
To this end, the crew built a similar interior scene to the prototype in Australia, the actual filming location, and the film was interspersed with real gunshots and explosion recordings.
Especially for the image of terrorists, the director did not demonize, and tried to restore their original appearance.
At the beginning of the film, several young men sit on a boat.
They are plainly dressed and have a natural look, which at first glance looks ordinary.
But the headphones exposed their unusualness.
Inside, there are the morale-boosting voices of the superiors, "Fearless in heart, looking at your brothers" and "I regard you as my own."
When the ship docked, they took the equipment and swung the taxi to different "battlefields".
Can you believe that they are "demons" who kill people without blinking?!
It's not until a gunshot that you realize, well, they really are.
In the face of the lives in front of them, these people did not fluctuate in mood, did not hesitate to act, and mechanically pulled the trigger, as if they were hunting.
The only time you can feel that they are human is when you enter the palatial hotel.
The killing has begun over there, and the hotel is still in the pre-death silence.
Hotel waiter Arjun, as usual, bid farewell to the children to go to work, late and wearing the wrong shoes and being scolded by the chef;
The hotel is also as usual, and guests are enjoying comfortable service.
Architect David stayed in the suite with his wife Sarah, children and nanny, and planned to have a candlelit dinner with Sarah in the evening and live a world of two.
Vasily, a rich Russian man sitting at the couple's table, is choosing the woman who will serve him tonight.
There are also travel couples who have just eaten and are ready to go to the hotel to stay.
The film unfolds from multiple perspectives at the same time, bringing you the most realistic and shocking experience.
You can feel the helplessness of ordinary people, and you can also feel the jaw-dropping ruthlessness.
Human nature is beautiful or something, and for a moment it is frightened to nothing.
Several terrorists followed the fleeing crowd into the Taj Mahal Hotel, where they destroyed everything with pistols or grenades.
Neither the woman who pleaded bitterly nor the man who was frightened was spared.
There is no omnipotent hero here, and the so-called protagonist aura does not exist.
You can't imagine who's going to die the next second.
The most suffocating scene in the film is when the nanny is hiding in the closet inside the room with the baby in her arms while two terrorists outside are sweeping away with guns.
The child is in danger of crying at any time, so that the person who sees it can't help but sweat for him.
And the more helpless the people are, the more they reflect the backwardness and incompetence of the Mumbai police.
There are no special forces in the city, and there is no effective means to stop the rampant acts of terrorists, only to see batches of grass-roots policemen killed.
And as the film shows, in reality, Mumbai has to deploy troops from New Delhi, more than 800 miles away, to deal with 10 terrorists.
Unable to control the situation, the local police did not dare to act rashly.
Outside the cordon of the hotel, a large number of reporters watched, the police insisted, and all they could do was wait.
Is there no hope?
Of course not.
Organized by the hotel's chef, the remaining hotel staff began to help the survivors find their hideouts and help themselves.
In fact, they are in the back kitchen, obviously they can escape through the back door, but most of them take the initiative to stay.
And for the employees who chose to escape and leave, the chef did not have a word of reproach.
And he said—
Most of you have wives, parents, and family, and there's nothing to be ashamed of leaving now, no one forces you to stay.
Even if you leave, you don't need to apologize.
As a result, the remaining employees and guests live and die together, and they help the restaurant's guests escape through the staff ladder to the VIP bar in the upper level.
Dialing police rescue calls to calm the emotions of the guests, they spontaneously took dozens of lives.
This scene also really happened in reality, and the "warriors" of the hotel told the guests not to worry, the bullets would pass through their bodies first, and they would not hit them.
Aren't they afraid?
Of course I'm afraid.
Arjun kissed the family portrait photo on his body, and he missed the children and wives at home, afraid that he would never see them again.
The little girl at the front desk was shot at the head, trembling with fear, and sobbing in a low voice.
However, sometimes weak individuals can gush out great courage.
The front desk refused to cooperate with the terrorists, making lure calls to guests hiding in their rooms; Arjun became the backbone of transporting the wounded.
In the face of life and death, there is no distinction between religion, race, or class, only goodness and justice.
Like the turban that Arjun has been wearing since childhood, it symbolizes the honor and courage of the family, but in the end, in order to help the injured guest stop the bleeding, he did not hesitate to take it off and wrap it around her wound.
This scene, a "hero", even if 11 years have passed since the air raid, should still be remembered.
In reality, 21 months after the incident, under the leadership of the chef, the hotel returned to its former glory, and grateful survivors came from all over the world to attend the opening ceremony.
Those who died were forever inscribed on the stone tablets.
Unfortunately, there are frequent terrorist attacks and shootings.
The public pays attention to it, forgets, pays attention, forgets... Cycle.
This makes one wonder: What's wrong with the world?
But, as the line that keeps Sarah alive says—
If you feel scared, just jump down, you may fall, but you may also fly.
As long as goodness and justice remain, there will be a moment of re-emergence!
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