Hijack sea drama lacks original context

Rating: 6/10 (20 April 2014)

Other comments, above, describe the film production as an exciting drama based on the events of a real incident. After seeing the DVD, several things have impressed me. There are appear to be three levels to this story; first, was the actual event that occurred off the Somali coast, second, was the book publication that referred to the event, and, finally, there was the film, produced from the book.
Each of these levels captures less of the story. The actual event included all the crew and pirates in real life, and was proceeded by the surrounding history of the government and people of Somalia. The book version had to be a condensation of the actual event. The film version was the result of further editing, and possible revision for dramatic effect. A previous review (tieman64) above, added background and context to the actual events that were missing from the film.
"But as everyone knows, to the point of being smugly annoying, that is not "all there is". The Somali pirates are largely a result of Western companies dumping nuclear and toxic waste off Somalia's coast, coupled to severe illegal over-fishing by foreign super trawlers (300 million dollars worth of seafood stolen from Somalia each year). The United Nations would itself release numerous reports blaming toxic waste for mutations, deaths, diseases and illnesses within Somalia. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy for Somalia, would say: "There is uranium, lead, cadmium, mercury, industrial, radioactive, hospital and chemical waste killing Somalis and completely destroying the ocean." Why can companies do this? Because Somalia's government has all but collapsed, thanks to Western Empires deliberately destabilizing and developmentally arresting the nation, funding warlords, dictators (Siad Barre et al) and instigating proxy wars with border nations. This has been going on, uninterrupted, since the late 1950s; any local government body not beholden to Western corporate interests, and which attempts to nationalize resources, will be destroyed. '
Not knowing the book, I cannot comment on its version.
The film version may have been good drama, but was deficient on history, and for this viewer, disappointing. Nobody should mistake the film for the actual history.