The Mauritanian - What a wonderful feeling
"The Mauritanian", produced by BBC and co filmed by Britain and America, is adapted from mohamedou ould slahi's memoir "Guantanamo diary". A true story.
If you don't say much about the plot, there will be spoilers. I avoid being spoiled before watching. So, consider yourself and others. Let's just talk about the actors: Judy foster as Nancy, a lawyer; Ben conberbach as Lieutenant Stewart; Taha Rahim, who I don't know much about, as slahi. They are dedicated to their acting skills. Taha Rahim, in particular, plays slahi, who has lived in hell for 14 years but never gave up hope.
The film uses different frames: slahi appears in a narrow frame. In addition, it is wide. The director uses a narrow frame to reflect slahi's experience. People with clear eyes know the meaning, so there is no need to repeat it.
The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo is in Cuba, facing three seas. However, the blue Caribbean can only be seen through a small hole in the prison's thick cover.
One of my favorite scenes: Prisoner 760 slahi and prisoner 241 "Marseille" are talking through a thick isolation, only listening to the voice, but not the person. Slahi holds the barbed wire with his left hand, closes his eyes, stretches out his right hand and gently swings his body as if he were on the beach, encouraging "Marseilles" never to give up. Their dialogue is shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
The second favorite shot: slahi in the distant Guantanamo, through the video, calmly to the judge's self statement. All the emotional ups and downs are contained in a calm expression. It's not deliberate. It's the power of faith.
The more you watch the movie, the better it looks. I especially like the real video at the end of the film about slahi's release. Slahi returned to his hometown of Mauritania. When he stepped out of the car, I saw the still pure smiling face with no trace of being damaged by hatred. When slahi heard Bob Dylan's the man in me clapping his hands and singing with a smile, I couldn't believe that this was a man who had been subjected to inhuman treatment in Guantanamo military prison for 14 years. His smile is like sunshine.
Do you think of "the redemption of Zodiac"? Yes, I do. But it's a novel adaptation. It's real life. I would also like to say that it is a miracle that such a book that mercilessly exposes the darkness of the US government, the military and the military intelligence agency can be published and made into a film.
"Will you resist evil? Will you do your best to seek justice on earth? And treat everyone with the dignity inherent in human beings? "