I have long heard of the story outline of this movie. After a captain successfully landed an aircraft, he was praised by all parties as a hero. At the same time, the FAA investigation found that the captain had alcohol and drug abuse, and the captain must conceal the truth in order to maintain his self-image and interests. For such a subject, there are many aspects that can be digged into it. It is a rare good subject. The final effect of the film can only be said: it is not good enough.
The beginning of the film shows the confused life of the pilot Vitke played by Denzel Washington. I had an appointment with the flight attendant for a night, got drunk, and then relied on cocaine to refresh myself. When someone asked him when he got up on the phone, he lied that he got up early in the morning. Transfer to the airport with the movie "How are you feeling?" by the British traffic band. When the plane took off, Captain Victor actually drank two more bottles of vodka in the air, and these two bottles of vodka became the key to his final salvation. After drinking, I hit tons, until the plane broke down. During the shooting of the entire crash landing, it was the most thrilling part of the film. In the face of the co-pilot’s confusion and the panic of the flight attendants, Victor was extremely calm here and faced everything calmly. Here, we can see one The excellent qualities a captain should possess. Relying on Victor's control, the plane finally made an emergency landing, but there were still 6 deaths. The film did not show the plane crash from the first point of view, but was reported through television. This is obviously better than direct performance, which increases the sense of reality and makes people feel scared. After experiencing the thrilling foreplay of the crash landing, the film is caught in a slow-paced and messy middle section of clues. From the summary of the story, we can see that the crash landing is far from the focus of this movie, but the point is. What should Captain Victor do in the face of lies after the crash landing. The failure in the middle stage is mainly manifested in the installation of a female character who is basically useless to the plot. Captain Victor is still addicted to alcohol and his life is chaotic. There was no progress in the middle of his inner change, and he didn't see any emotional changes. The random stacking of various clues not only made people feel chaotic, but also made the film fall into the procrastinating rhythm, making people doze off watching. And just after the Soy Sauce Girl left, the film was back on track. With the emergence of vodka clues, the family meeting between father and son was constantly impacted, the painful struggle on the eve of the hearing, and the self-salvation at the final climax hearing. At the hearing, Victor, who had been panicking all his life in front of him, completely collapsed when he faced the late flight attendant. Victor repeatedly asked the questions raised here. The struggle and suffering made him finally say God, help. I. Indeed, no one can help him anymore at this time. For a person who has said that he has been flustered all his life, only God can help him. In the end he confessed everything, and the camera turned here. Victor was already in prison, talking about his past, talking about his feelings, talking about his feelings of freedom for the first time in his life, and he felt it in prison. Although it may seem contradictory, for a person who has been with lies for his whole life, although the lies seem to make him conceal the truth again and again, and get out of the predicament time and time again. But the lies also made him exhausted physically and mentally, and it was hard to breathe under the pressure of the lies. Only by acknowledgment can we let
Denzel Washington contributed first-class acting skills in this film, which is worthy of the nomination of this year's Oscar actor. Without his outstanding performance, the film's fineness will lose more than half. In fact, the whole movie can also be seen as Denzel Washington's personal acting show. For playing the drunken captain, the movie still gave him a lot to play. From the beginning of alcoholism, the chaotic life of lying addiction to the full cabinet of beer on the eve of the hearing, it was painful and difficult to drink. The final hearing was a full manifestation of his acting skills. Through various small movements, confused eyes, and choked words, the captain's inner struggle was fully demonstrated. Although the final redemption was a bit blunt, but under Denzel Washington's interpretation, it still moved us, ignoring the slightly blunt redemption plot.
For such a work, although there are many shortcomings, under the interpretation of Denzel Washington, it still touched me, and Zemikis also managed to get out of the quagmire of motion capture.
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