John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant.
The thing that bothered me about this movie is that the people he terrorized didn’t have financial control over the situation. They are just workers, not shot callers.
You almost never reach the people that are in control. They sit behind layers and layers of institutional protection, physical walls and rows of people with guns.
Demonstrations, protests, hostage takings. Always inconveniences the common people more directly than the elites in charge.
That’s what’s so interesting about recent news… it actually reached the CEO
That’s what’s so interesting about recent news… it actually reached the CEO
Isn’t technology grand? Everything from the shooter probably watching youtube to learn how to hand-cycle rounds to the likely digital surveillance to know the CEO’s schedule.
Powerful technology makes full defense nearly impossible, and offense much easier. It’s why guerrilla forces can strike hard against the most powerful militaries on earth; why no tank armor can ever withstand handheld weapons; why mutually assured destruction is the only strategy against nuclear armed nations.
That sounds like a good cautionary tale, to be honest.
It’s one of those scenarios where the person becomes kind of an antihero borne out of absolute desperation. I haven’t seen the film in a long time but I recall him at least trying his best to respect his hostages and help them understand his dire situation. It sucks that it even came to that in the first place, but healthcare in America is also an absolute horror show.
