What is suspense? Hitchcock once said, "If you're going to show a group of people playing cards around a table, and then there's a sudden explosion, then you're going to get a very dull post-explosion scene. On the other hand, although you It's the same scene, but before the poker starts, show the ticking time bomb under the table, then you create suspense and touch the hearts of the audience."
Use this quote to explain what we do when we watch "Flight 93." The tension felt may be plausible, but it misses the point. Just imagine, if the story in the movie is completely fictional, then we can still wait for the "miracle" to happen, for the replay of the "last minute rescue", and for the applause, cheers, hugs and reunions that we have long been tired of watching. However, this time, all of these will not appear, because, five years ago, we already knew the tragic ending of this story, that the spiral staircase to board the plane is the road of no return to heaven or hell.
So from the moment we saw the crew say goodbye to their sleeping families, we were overwhelmed with grief. They hug and say goodbye to their families, talk on the phone, leave messages, send text messages... Every exchange will make us experience unspeakable pain. While passengers waited quietly to board, we even hoped that something abrupt would stop them from traveling. Especially the man who caught the plane at the last moment, watching him get on the plane with relief, I couldn't help but think of Lu Ma's line in "Thunderstorm" - "It's life, it's an unfair life that brought me here. ".
In the following time, we watched the passengers on the plane panic, panic, nervousness, anger, cry, despair, cry for help, pray, resist, and watch them and their relatives and friends encourage, comfort, and pass on in various ways. A message of love, watching them inch closer to death. We have never felt the oppression of time as we have felt in these 90 minutes.
But, after all, a movie is just a movie, and we can't be stuck in it forever, so when we jump out and examine "Flight 93", we can't help but find some problems.
First, the men who actively resisted and were unwilling to sit still on the plane seemed to be all men. Although they were equally nervous, they were still able to remain calm, gathered around to discuss countermeasures, tried to contact on the ground, learned about the situation, and finally made a decision to take action. . Women, on the other hand, are mostly passive and can only cry in their seats, letting fate dictate, but whether it's the Arabs who will lead them to death, or the Americans who will lead them to fight for their lives, both is male. In this way, can we understand it this way - men determine the fate of women.
Second, among the men who actively resisted, there seemed to be only two people who played a decisive role. One, from the moment the accident happened, he showed courage that was different from others; the other contacted the ground through a special communication channel. Most of the other people are in a subordinate position, belonging to the kind of people Mao Sui said. Of these two people, the former is a CEO, the latter is very much like a national public official (sorry, I didn't understand his specific identity), they should all belong to the middle class. So, is the film trying to tell us that only such people are the backbone of society and have the talent and power to lead others.
Of course, we have no way of knowing exactly what happened on Flight 93 five years ago. Everything can only be inferred from the records of the telephone contact between the passengers and the ground. That is to say, the above two problems are not necessarily true. , perhaps it is simply the subjective assumption of the film directors. In this case, the problem becomes serious.
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