Anxiety floods into all the floor, just like the huge power of an arrow on the bow which is ready for turning potential energy for a linear spring to kinetic energy by an archer holding the bow to keep that unstable dynamic equilibrium spreads everyone’s back. Sweating a lot, they, Lieutenant Danny, the police, the criminal, and the hostage, feel nervous, mirrored from the drop of sweat. With sweat dropping, every drop is one of the accumulation of stress.
Lieutenant Danny is trying to figure out the kidnapper’s favor from their conversation, further eager for the criminal’s line of vigilance collapsed. He wants to build friendship deeper. With the door blocking them into different places, lieutenant Danny takes notes about the questions he wants to talk with the criminal as the pre-questions in order to building the trust to take the criminal’s vigilance line out and making the door open. On the other hand, the teammates of Danny are waiting for breach— the most perfect solution for them to take the kidnapper down by shooting in the breach. But, lieutenant Danny knows that this is a NO, because it’s gonna be a big bet on the result of setting hostage free. Moreover, he ain’t got no idea of what’s going on behind the door and knows zero about the condition. The only thing he knew is that through the kidnapper’s blusters and dog’s barks, there are lives in the room. On the other side of the camera shot, the criminal takes a shotgun with its bullet loaded, directly aiming a girl forced to lie down on the floor with her body curving to one side. The girl is fear to move, and she has no dare to yell. Not to mention a cough— a sound enough to let her die, and to lose her life. With the girl’s face touching on the freezing floor, she feel more fear by chill coming form the floor, forcing her to shake and close her helpless eyes to pray that the kidnapper’s wife could appear to him. In this beginning, lieutenant Danny faces a tremendous challenge and stays in a bad situation with two concerns: how to clam down his irritable teammates and how to assure safety of the hostage.
During a negotiation, we cannot be sure about the maximum of benefits satisfying with everyone, but able to gain the compromise after communication. So, lieutenant Danny tricks the criminal by saying: your wife has been there, and open that fucking door. To meet his wife, the criminal opens the door, the compromise of the criminal. His teammates, the police, are afraid of Danny to get injured after he rushed into the scene of crime so that they reject the thought of taking the criminal down by shooting the criminal to die. His teammates turn to protect Danny passively, allowing for the improvement in this negotiation. In the case of lieutenant Danny, to set the hostage free and require the enemy’s information by risking himself’s life, too, is his concession.
When each one side of them seeks for the biggest reward, they relatively pay the cost. During the negotiation. Each one adheres to their bargaining chips, distinguishing “ give and take ” accurately. This, the back-and-forth bargaining process, is the highlight of the negotiation, probably causing the game to change or even to be turnover. As a professional negotiator, lieutenant Danny sees through the whole picture meticulously. Although suffering from difficulity like walking on the bumpy road, he sets a proper beginning and builds relation by talks starting from pets to eliminate the deadlock, making the relation closer to gain changes to get into the room. They talk about lives in universities, American football, and memory between veterans: “ In marine, they teach us not to piss on our hands. ” Such cultural recognition as the final critical key traps him into loosing his vigilance. Consequently, the sniper with toothpick on his mouth shots the criminal down to close the game.
However, in a brilliant negotiation, the themes mentioned above are not the whole. Apart from methodology built, it is important that here is an opponent with the same level. In the second scene, lieutenant Danny is standing with the negotiator Sabian as an equal, then putting forward to different kind of height. I suddenly became aware that the superb confrontation in the movie could produce semen.