"Today's bombing incident has caused a great blow to the US troops stationed abroad..." With the standard American broadcast accent, what lit up on the black screen was the bombed barracks. The empty building remains with no traces of life, and the red and blue lines of the low-resolution TV images that have not yet been popularized intersect, which adds a sense of ruin to this tragedy. The military was wearing guns and guarding the surroundings. The corpses were lifted out of the rubble one after another. The survivors ran with all their strength in an attempt to escape this purgatory on earth...
This is the beginning of the movie "Blood Sky", depicting a scene of a terrorist attack in the United States. A piece of real-time news calmly tells the cruel facts, just like those reports about terrorist attacks in our lives. It suddenly appeared in the quiet moment of enjoying breakfast or dinner, and it suddenly grabbed people's hearts.
In the past two years, society has never been peaceful. From the terrorist attacks in Paris, the bombing in Turkey, the truck hitting a person in New York, to the shooting in Las Vegas... It seems that every once in a while, social media will be swept by "RIP" to mourn the world. The original innocent lives everywhere have fallen in the midst of man-made disasters.
Going back to the news report in the movie: "It was reported earlier that this time the mastermind may be Bentra..." The name of this fictitious terrorist organization leader seems to be full of sense of sight. I believe everyone has already come to mind. Bin Laden, the central figure of the worst terrorist attack in American history, the "September 11 Incident".
In 2001, the U.S. World Trade Center and the Pentagon of the Department of Defense suffered a series of suicide terrorist attacks, with nearly 3,000 victims, shocking the world. Behind this is Osama bin Laden’s hatred of the United States, whether it is a conspiracy by ISIS, or a fake show created by the Bush administration to intervene in the Middle East. We have no way of knowing.
It is worth mentioning that, unlike many terrorist attack movies, "Blood Sky" appeared on the big screen before the "September 11 Incident". It is a film directed by Edward Zwick in 1998. It tells the response of various departments of US military intelligence in the face of terrorist attacks. Surprisingly, some of the details are almost in line with the conclusions of the 9.11 report. Looking back at this old film after 20 years, I have to marvel at the director's ability to predict the prophet.
There are many similarities between the film and reality. One is that terrorists mostly use student visas as a means of entry. In the movie, the terrorists entered the country on a student visa, avoiding the tracking of the country’s blacklist, so that the FBI could only conduct a thorough investigation of the entry records after the terrorist attack occurred. September 11 was also a turning point in the US immigration policy. The long stay on student visas is often regarded by terrorists as the first choice for visas. Some terrorists involved in the "September 11 Incident" also hold student visas. This led to a 20% decrease in the number of student visas issued by the US team in 2002, and a downward trend in the following two years.
Furthermore, the various intelligence agencies of the United States are fighting each other, and there are problems with cooperation. In the face of terrorist attacks, the FBI, the CIA, and the U.S. military, which should have cooperated with each other in the story, are in their own battalions. The data on September 11 also showed that the US intelligence agencies had been aware of the terrorist attacks. However, due to the complexity of the US intelligence agency system, intelligence sharing obstacles, serious internal friction, and lack of unified command and dispatch, the intelligence agencies failed to take bin Laden seriously. , Prevent disaster from happening. It was not until after September 11 that the US government decided to set up the National Intelligence Director and the National Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Center to oversee various intelligence agencies, which solved the problem of internal friction for many years. This movie, which preceded the "September 11 Incident" three years ago, sharply reflected the real problems.
The more American-style counter-terrorism is, the more it is counter-terrorism, it is also related to the third common point: some terrorists are trained by Americans, and they are more or less related. In the film, Elise (Annette Benning), who is affiliated with the CIA, supports the Arab Samir as an informant to collect information on terrorist attacks, but is betrayed in the end. The great powers of the first world tried to support the marginal power of the third world for their own use, but they ended up suffering from the danger of repaying the other's way to the other's body and raising the tiger. In reality, the United States is even more naked with terrorists. In 2017, an IS leader, Joseph Al Salafy, was arrested. During interrogation, he voluntarily admitted that Pakistani terrorist organizations had long received US funding. The United States uses terrorists to interfere with the development of other countries. Anti-terrorism is a high-sounding excuse for destroying disobedient governments for profit.
Therefore, some people say that the "September 11 Incident" was self-directed and performed by the US government in order to bypass the United Nations as an excuse to start a war and obtain oil resources in the Middle East. Can't help but think, are terrorists cynical hysterics or desperate beasts trained by their own people? Whether the deep meaning buried in the movie is a warning or a hint, it is left to the audience to figure out.
The plots of American Hollywood movies are always full of foresight and imagination, and have an epoch-making effect. Some movies seem to be advanced at the moment, but they will naturally become reality a few years or decades later. For example, the famous science fiction movie "Star Wars", 40 years ago, it used cool lightsaber weapons, shocking holographic images and understanding artificial intelligence to win everyone's attention, and these magical props that belonged only to the screen Today, they have entered reality one after another. The tablet computer and locator in "Star Trek" have now become a part of daily life.
Terrorist movies, science fiction movies, and even natural disaster movies, many of which are inextricably linked to reality. Many of the predictions come true movies are rigorously conceived based on reality and prediction as the rudiment. As a result, many movies become reality, and there are also many movies that recount reality. Perhaps the natural disasters in "Tokyo Sinking" and "The Day After Tomorrow" will really come someday; new humans in a few decades will be surprised by the superheroes in the "old movie" "Avengers".
In fact, there are many scientists who are inspired by science fiction movies. And just as science fiction movies continue to provide inspiration for the technology world, who knows whether terrorist attacks also broaden their thinking for terrorists? In this movie, the friction between various intelligence agencies is undoubtedly evident. Perhaps the terrorists caught this omission and planned the subsequent terrorist attack, which is extremely scary.
In 2013, after Obama was re-elected as President of the United States, Hollywood successively released two terrorist films, "The Fall of the White House" and "Shocking Crisis." Without exception, the White House's defenses were loose and the agents were vulnerable. Then there were several attacks that happened near the White House by coincidence, including a man throwing firecrackers on the North Lawn of the White House and an African-American woman driving into the White House.
In 2017, the US Central Intelligence Agency released a bin Laden's "Book Bank" archive, which included terrorist correspondence, personal diaries and crime videos, as well as reports, books, and movies he had seen. Bin Laden's viewing list is dominated by documentaries, and there are also some anti-terrorism films with him as the protagonist. It can be found that he has a strong practicality in movies: for example, documentaries about toxins, assassination weapons and the life of American special forces are closely related to his terrorist activities around the world; as for documentaries related to himself, they are transparent. Perhaps his information has also helped him keep abreast of this and the enemy during his long escape. The terrorists used the content of the movie to learn and use, which is really terrifying.
American movies love fantasy and show their own life habits, cultural characteristics, military strength, and even internal security rules and leak information. Is it true that many terrorists are also fans of terrorist films, but movies that were intended to warn the world beforehand have been reduced to clever ways to provide terrorists with ideas? Although there is no textual research, it is deeply ironic.
"Blood Sky" director Edward's work has always focused on social and racial issues. He has been praised for "clear themes, complete roles, difficult moral choices, and the courage to challenge authority in the story." In the film, FBI agent Anthony Herb During the investigation of a terrorist attack on a bus bomb with his Arabic partner Frank, he received a mysterious message requesting "release". Since then, he has started a series of investigations of terrorist activities and resistance to the US military. Theater explosions, bus explosions, and school terrorist attacks in the film have also been fulfilled in a terrifying form all over the world.
The reason why a movie can become a classic is mostly because of its enduring value, which can arouse resonance in people's souls. Looking back at this movie after 20 years, it still brings us shock and sentiment, even though the US intelligence agencies are no longer what they used to be. In addition to the forward-looking predictions of the movie itself, it is also because of the social turmoil that has been repeating the same mistakes over the years. Perhaps the tragedy will repeat itself, and all that can be done is to learn from history.
Today, the United States, Britain, Russia and European countries have successively enacted laws against terrorism to increase the police's authority to verify personal data; more than 60% of countries in the world have established counter-terrorism forces and special forces to fight terrorists; countries have built and improved counter-terrorism intelligence information networks, research and development High-tech weapons, strengthening anti-terrorism education, and advancing cross-border cooperation... Fortunately, there will never be a scene where only the FBI is battered in the movie.
"It is not difficult to distinguish between good and evil. The hard part is to make evil for good." This is a classic line of Elise in the movie. Force itself is neutral, but the use of force can be divided into good and evil, and war can be divided into justice and injustice. We cannot understand the terrorist’s use of evil for good, marking certain countries as the axis of evil, and killing innocent people indiscriminately. But we are still willing to use good to control evil, preserve humanity and justice, and drive out the darkness of this world.
The last thing I want to say is that I hope the world is full of love and peace!
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