ＳＦ映画「Captive State :: 囚われた国家」ネットでのコメントは賛否あり。ハリウッド映画なのにエンターテイメント性はゼロです😊
この、全く娯楽性のないＳＦ映画、とても心に残りました。
概要
マッチをすり、戦争を起こせ。抵抗する限りチャンスはある―。 地球外生命体による侵略から9年後の2027年、シカゴ。制圧されたアメリカ政府は「統治者」の傀儡と化していた。貧富の差はかつてないほど拡大し、街は荒廃。そして市民は、この圧政に対して従属する者と反抗する者に分かれた。自由を取り戻すために秘かに結成されたレジスタンス・グループは、市内スタジアムで開催される統治者による団結集会への爆弾テロを計画するが―。© 2018 STORYTELLER DISTRIBUTION CO., LLC. All Rights Reserved.
英語版wikiに、ほぼ映画の中身が掲載されています。
これからご覧になる方は、読むのを飛ばした方が良いかもしれません。
In 2019, Chicago is placed under martial law after a global extraterrestrial invasion. As the Drummond family attempts to flee the city, they break through a barricade but are confronted by the aliens, who vaporize the parents but leave their sons Gabriel and Rafe alive.
By 2027, the world has capitulated to the alien "Legislators", submitting to their governance. Humans are conscripted to build "Closed Zones", underground habitats for the aliens with access only granted to and by high government officials.
Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Sanders), living in the impoverished Pilsen neighborhood, is confronted by Chicago Police Special Branch Commander William Mulligan (John Goodman), who had partnered with Gabriel's father before the invasion. Mulligan is convinced that the Phoenix resistance group has not been neutralized, contrary to what the public has been told, but Gabriel offers him no information.
Gabriel meets with a member of Phoenix to sell a hand-rolled cigarette containing secret information received from a coworker. The man takes him to Wicker Park, where he meets his brother Rafe (Majors), the leader of the resistance. Rafe takes the coded cigarette and directs Gabriel to leave as Phoenix is planning to attack the upcoming Unity Rally at Soldier Field. Rushing to his apartment and hastily packing, Gabriel is again confronted by Mulligan, who had him under surveillance. Gabriel evades Mulligan and hides underground.
The cigarette’s code allows Rafe's team to access Chicago's surveillance system and the deployment patterns of law enforcement units. Rafe and other Phoenix members attack the Unity Rally, using an invisible alien explosive device against the aliens when they arrive. The attack initially appears successful, but the city is subsequently locked down and swarmed by security forces in response. Angered by the attack, the aliens bring in hunters from off-world to seek out the perpetrators, finding Rafe and his accomplices Anita (Caitlin Ewald) and Daniel (Ben Daniels). Anita is vaporized and Daniel ingests a cyanide pill to avoid capture, but Rafe is shot and arrested by Mulligan before ingesting his cyanide pill.
Gabriel emerges from hiding but is taken into custody during a police raid. Mulligan shows him his brother being tortured for information and convinces him to send a message through the Phoenix network in hopes of meeting the supposed ringleader, Number One. Gabriel is eventually led to Jane Doe, a prostitute running a brothel in Pilsen, who acknowledges Gabriel by name, to his confused surprise. Police raid the house, and Doe is killed.
The subsequent investigation reveals that Doe bugged her own residence to record conversations with Special Branch members and glean classified information. The tapes reveal that Police Commissioner Eugene Igoe (Kevin Dunn) divulged sensitive information about the aliens' arrival to Soldier Field which allowed Phoenix to develop their attack strategy. Igoe, along with Rafe and many others, are deported off-world and Mulligan, declaring the Chicago threat neutralized, is promoted to Acting Commissioner.
Mulligan meets with Gabriel privately, with Gabriel lamenting that Rafe's plan failed. Mulligan, retrieving a box earlier received from Doe, reveals a BlackBerry phone, giving the memory card to Gabriel and suggesting that maybe failure was the plan. Gabriel reviews the card’s contents — a video depicting his own baby shower, and revealing Jane Doe taught at the same school as his mother. It was at the shower that she was introduced to Mulligan, with several Phoenix members present, and the video closes with Mulligan leaving a message for Gabriel, inspiring him to carry the torch of Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Mulligan is cleared to meet with the Legislators underground. As he descends, the invisible substance of the powerful alien explosive envelops him, indicating he is part of the resistance and that the whole 'failed' plan was orchestrated to allow him to deal a fatal blow to the Legislators.
During the credits, a map details that the Closed Zone was successfully destroyed, with other resistance strikes and protests having broken out in cities all over the world, indicating that the opening exhortation to "light a match and ignite a war" has led humanity to attempt to overthrow their alien oppressors.
感想
この映画を、今まで見てきた宇宙人侵略モノと同じだと思って観た方のレビューは散々です。
当たり前ですね。エイリアンと戦うシーンはありませんし、ロケットやビームも出てきません😅
エイリアンに支配され、その支配に従って国を運営している政府と、レジスタンスの活動が映像のほとんどで、暗いシーンがずっと続きます。
国民を監視しているのは時の政府で、エイリアンから支給された虫のようなＧＰＳ装置（会話も全て聴取出来る）を全国民の身体に埋め込み、管理しています。
舞台となる米国シカゴの管理者代表とエイリアンをレジスタンスが爆弾テロで攻撃し、それは成功するのですが、参加したレジスタンスは全員やられてしまいます。それを皮切りにレジスタンスの巻き返しが広がって行くところで映画は終わります。
（巻き返しが広がる様子は、エンドロールを注意深く見ないと分かりません）
爆弾テロに参加したレジスタンスが全員死亡するのも実は裏があり、ネタバレになるので書きませんが、ラスト十数分を注意深く見ていないと見逃します。
Gabrielが中身をデリートするビデオと、Mulliganが新しい代表になってエイリアンがいる地下へ向かうシーンの後ろ姿。
ここを見逃すと結末が分からなくなります。
最近のネットレビューには、この１ヶ月間の東欧の状況を例に出している方もおられ（『ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻を予言しているのだとしたら満点つけます』とか）、私もこの映画を観ながらそれを思わずにはいられませんでした。
ここまでお付き合い頂き、ありがとうございます。
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