Review of Backdraft

Review of Backdraft

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Kaho Kawakami

 I watched the movie Backdraft, so I will talk about this movie. This movie released in 1991. The locale is Chicago. There are two brothers, Steven and Brian and their father Denis. Denis was a fireman. Two brothers respect their father. However when Brian was a child, Denis died in action in front of Bryan.

 Twenty years later, his big brother Steven has been a fireman and works so well. On the other hand Brian didn’t find what he wants to do, so he changed his job many times. However he became a fireman like his father and his big brother. He was assigned to the same unit with his brother, and Steven was a captain of the unit. And there was Adcox Denis’s associate in the unit. Steven and Brian got along well, but Brian had a complex about Steven. Brian felt Steven didn’t accept him as a fully grown man. Steven was strict with Brian during training. The day of Brian’s first mission, he helped the dummy that he mistook for the human. He was laughed at by other fireman and he felt humiliated very much. So he decided to become an assistant of fire investigator Rimgale.

　

　And then the sequential blasting fatal arson attack was happened. This incident was used the backdraft phenomenon. Rimgale and Brian researched this incident however they felt on the case. They fought with criminal and Brian inflicted a burn to the criminal’s back. However the criminal ran away. Brian went to research the fire house, and he saw Adcox’s back. He had burned his back. He knew the criminal is Adcox, and told it to Steven. After that Steven went into action for the fire. Brian worried about Steven, so he also went there. Steven and Adcox were arguing in the fire locality’s roof. Brian came there, and Adcox attacked to Brian. The fire was becoming big, and the roof broke. Steven helped Brian, and ran away. Along the way Adcox almost fell under the factry. Steven tried to help Adcox. And both of them felt.

 Finally, Brian woke up, and he tried to help his brother. Steven saw Brian’s brave figure for the first time. However Steven and Adcox died.

 When I watched this movie, I cried. I think the fireman is so cool. They help us at risk to their life. I want to watch it again.