Hello, everyone!
I came across a film "Unthinkable" with Samuel L. Jackson. I liked the description, I was surprised that I did not watch it, but in the middle of the film it turned out that I still watched, but for some reason, the film was not recorded at my notes. Well, okay, I watched to the end and share with you my impressions.
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Michael Sheen plays a terrorist who laid three plutonium bombs in three US cities. He was captured by the military. They invited two experts on the interrogation of terrorists. One of them is FBI agent Helen Brody (Carrie-Anne Moss), and the second one is "H" (Samuel L. Jackson).
In my opinion, the plot is very interesting. The people gathered in the room are faced with the question of how far they will go to find out the location of each bomb. It would seem, this is not even worth the thought of. What is there to talk about? But the film was dedicated to discussing moral principles. Carrie-Anne Moss is responsible for conscience. I was annoyed by her pity for the terrorist. Samuel L. Jackson was the only thinking person in the room.
Here's what I wrote down while watching a movie:
- It is mentioned for about 100500 times that everything that happens is top secret, no one submits to anyone, no one has names, the building location is a secret, and no one can ask questions to each other, because nothing can be told, because it's all super secret.
- Carrie-Anne Moss' character is very naive, it's amazing how she generally rose to a high level (sort of like she's the head of a group or department). Let me remind you, three bombs are hidden somewhere in the cities and she says that torture is illegal and the terrorist must be treated humanely. Plus she was invited to interrogate the criminal, but for some reason, they forbid her to interrogate him.
- All the soldiers gathered in the room are good guys. From the type of blood, they all start running around the room and yell, that it's impossible and inhumanly. And one of the soldiers tears off a badge with his name because he does not want to be a participant in such rampant sadism. I want to remind them of the prison in Guantanamo or about the excesses in Iraq. I will not go deep into this topic, but I want to ask, are you serious?
- Plutonium. In general, this terrorist was formerly an American military man and somehow went to Russia with a commission to count plutonium. And in the process of calculating, he stole 8 kg of plutonium. How did he endure them? In his pockets? Okay, then we are shown cylinders with plutonium and manufactured in Chernivtsi (a city in Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia are different countries). So Russia buys plutonium in Ukraine? How did he carry it to the US? They mentioned that it's easy to do it by mail. 8 kg of plutonium is easy to send by mail. What? And sometimes I'm surprised. In the US, there are many Russian people. Is it really difficult to ask how words are written in Russian? Because this inscription is unreadable. And by the way, when actors speak Russian in Hollywood films, it's very difficult to understand).
I understand that the purpose of the film is to tell about another things, to show that 2 lives are more important than millions, that conscience is above all, and the US military is good guys and judging by the finale is stupid, and only one person in the film is a madman and a sadist (Samuel L. Jackson) , but damn it.
The actors played perfectly, showed their characters perfectly. It's a very interesting story, I liked the ending (the very last few seconds) and watching how people change their decisions, how life puts them before a choice and the way how H plays on the emotions of Helen Brody. Perhaps, such people, justifying terrorists and relating to them humanely deserve such an end. In some places, the film was very strong, sometimes weak. All the story lines were predictable, brutal scenes were not particularly shocking. It seems to me that they will only affect the impressionable people.