Captain China, I'm telling you that this is a hero; Captain Sally, I'm asking you, is he a hero? Humans have been exploring the limits of human nature in the genre of disaster films. From the ocean to the sky, the one thing in common is that if a ship or a plane goes off, we will fall into the abyss without a single foot. This kind of natural disaster is irresistible, the power of human beings is powerless, and the only thing that can save us is the indomitable spirit, which is also the subject of repeated discussions in disaster films. But in Captain Sully, the trials and shocks of this natural disaster are diluted and replaced by a different kind of disaster: the complex and unpredictable nature of the human heart. Did Sally really do something wrong? Wasn't he a hero, was he really a fool who put the lives of hundreds of passengers at risk? Well, he may be, he may be wrong, but it cannot be denied that at the time of the incident, he made the bravest and most honest choice to face his heart. Can we still criticize him? When judging a hero, is it his motives or his results? This is where Captain Sully is the heaviest and most ironic. People have just experienced life and death so important that everything else seems unimportant, but when they turn around, life is wrapped in trivial questions and troubles, as if nothing happened, and it gets worse. It is precisely because life is like this, the world is like this, that the preciousness of the human heart can be highlighted. What the world needs is not heroes who do not make mistakes, but ordinary people with courage. And Captain Sully's failure is also here. At the climax of the film, there is a happy ending - after calculation, Sally is right, he is indeed a hero.
Director Eastwood gave the answer directly, but also destroyed the original tragic power of the story, turning Sally, a self-doubting ordinary person, into a Hollywood-style lonely hero? Perhaps what Eastwood wanted was this kind of effect of one person fighting the world and proving himself right; but at the end he added a superfluous statement to Sully saying that in this miracle, everyone is very important, so as to convey that An American theme: America is a country of wonders because it has so many miraculous citizens. (The Chinese captain didn't learn the essence of goodness, but he learned it quickly.) If the screenwriter was me, I would let Sally fail. I will prove time and time again with computers and other captains that this was a mistake Sally made. I want to see Sally pushed to the extremes of life experience step by step, to endure the highest self-doubt and fall, through such difficult trials and choices, to awaken the light of his humanity, maybe he will fail even more, but this character also will be greater, as Montesquieu said, man is only like a man in sorrow. As for the question of the Chinese captain, I will not repeat them. What should I say about it? Does it mean that it sees a plot as flat as an airport? Or is it a masked, paper-thin character image? Or is it inexplicably spent a lot of ink to describe the group portrait play that is useless? Or its forty-minute "airport workflow you didn't know"? forgive me.
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