Film Analysis: Captain Phillips

. Captain Phillips is a film directed by Paul Greengrass and the important characters are like Captain Phillips Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener like the wife of Phillips, Michael Chernus like the second captain and Barkhad Abdi, M. Mahat Ali and Faysal Ahmed Abdirahman Barkhad like the pirates.
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.


2. The Civil piracy in the coast of Somalia has-been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali War in the early 21st century. The pirates are young fishermen That big boats start hijacking Because They win more money than fishing. Another reason Is that foreign boats are spoilling Their coast and polluting without paying attention.


3. For all its action and nail-biting aesthetics, gut-wrenching stress, this is a film on some level acerca globalization, acerca what happens When the paths of the very poor and the very rich intersect in the crossfire of world economics.


4. There is the urgent handheld camerawork to trademark directorial Which lends an air of authenticity to pseudo-documentary Carefully staged reconstructions, putting us right there in the huddle of the action. Paul Greengrass (the director) said "The biggest challenge was definitely shooting on water. Traditionally That is rather a graveyard for directors. It brings all sorts of problems. But I wanted to shoot on water and in actual ships. That, of course, Gives it a veracity, authenticity and, of course, a sense of excitement. It's brutal out there in any kind of swell and working in a small lifeboat being tossed around was really tough. Obviously some scenes we did inside, but a lot we did on the water and it was brutal. "


5. This film tells us the two differents points of view Between the pirates and the porwerful states. The pirates are against of the spoilment that big boats like this commet In Their territorial sea and the powerful states are against of going to another territorial Because They think you are That They Can fish whatever They Want Because Somalia is a poor state Comparing with them. This discussion is reflected very well When the FBI Takes part in the rescue.