Guest Blogger: Ali 2

Captain Phillips is the story of Tom Hanks, known in the movie as the Captain Richard Phillips. Captain Phillips paints a picture on how piracy is going on around the horn Africa, and how the Navy Seal protects from any criminal activities in the sea. This movie shows the drastic events of the Pirate crew from Mogadishu, Somalia, and their infamous pirating on other boats around the west word. Barkhad Abdi most known as Abduwali Muse in the movie creates a gritty image of how pirates work from Somalia, where he doesn’t kill anyone and doesn’t let anyone hurt their hostages, but demands substantial amounts of Ransom. The other pirates insisted on their deaths but were convinced by their Captain Abduwali Muse, to not kill anyone because they needed them for ransom. Captain Phillips tried to offer a deal a few times for their compensation of ten thousand in American dollars. The other pirates started freaking out knowing it’s over, and they weren’t going to get any ransom but their grave, as Najee would say “(Gabriga Gili, anaga iskumid)”.This term refers to put them in their graves, they will to us. The other pirates were thinking about it, but Abduwali wouldn’t let them. He needed his ransom before anything. Throughout the movie Abduwali, kept referring to “im the captain know”. This very part kept the whole ship at scarce. It was like Captain Phillips wouldn’t come out of this. The Captain had radio a few times given to him buy the pirate captain Abduwali. Abduwali the captain pirate was a man who kind of understood human life. Ironically he kept the captain safe from death, and controlling his men. Captain Philips was a heroic man, giving a pass and even compensation of ten thousand dollars, and their freedom. In the entire movie Captain Phillips portrayed an elusive imagery of hostages, and the lengths of that and, pirating. Piracy is an illegal activity done by a few, but is seen very dangerous. Captain Phillips by far is a classic and realistic movie that came out in a while.