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I don't think the movie Captain Phillips was the least bit racist. CMV.

I actually found Aamer Rahman saying he thought the movie was racist on his Facebook page, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why his fans and he find it racist. 

I thought it was quite fair to the hijackers. They were portrayed as being otherwise normal human beings, in very tough circumstances, in a complex situation (I never knew that these pirates had 'bosses' so to speak). I thought the pirates were portrayed with great, and very sensitive, equanimity. They weren't portrayed as monsters, and the white crew weren't portrayed as morally superior heroes. 

The US military was portrayed as the technologically superior, faceless, heartless, precise killing machine that it is (though not always so precise, but in this instance it was). Maybe some fan-boys of military tech might get off on this, but that definitely didn't feel like the point of the movie. Captain Phillips may have been portrayed as perhaps more stoic and level-headed than maybe he was in real life, but I don't know. And that's what we expect from any protagonist.

I think it would certainly have been silly and disingenuous to portray the pirates in any different light, given the actual events, and the actual background to those events. The pirates didn't kill anybody, but they got killed and captured. How were they supposed to be portrayed? Like a modern version of Saladin and his heroes? Come on. 

Anyway, I can only concede that the movie focused more on the actual hostage taking and US military response, and not as much proportionately as the background to the pirates themselves. However, I think it provided as much background to the pirates as was necessary to the narrative to make the audience understand that these pirate guys weren't evil, but human, and there but the grace of God go you were you to be born under those circumstances.
gpt
I think they could have mentioned that the pirates only became pirates when large companies intentionally dumped waste into their waters and killed all the fish - at which point it became impossible to fish, but very possible to kidnap and hold ransom the same type of people who killed all your fish.