Captain Rich Phillips and Muse (2013)
How do I describe this film? Before watching this film I have read about the controversy of the inaccuracies of the screenplay and the book, so even if this is based on a true story, I watched it like I was watching something that was conjured from the figment of Billy Ray and Richard Phillips' imagination...ergo, a work of FICTION just like what happened to UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL . So there. I was moved by the story notwithstanding the controversies. The writers made me believe their version of the FACTS, so even if the MV Maersk Alabama crew claimed otherwise , in this movie , Captain Richard Phillips was indeed a hero . BARKHAD ABDI, who played Abduwali Muse, the self-proclaimed Captain of the Pirates , was very convincing. During the duration of the whole film, I did not think he was an actor, but Muse himself. I was not able to read Richard Phillips ' memoir A Captain's Duty in 2010 so I can only guess th...