The night before, I had a fight with the top flight attendant. I almost stayed up all night, and I was drunk and drugged. How did I get crazy.
On the second day, get up and board the plane on time and fly the domestic flight as usual. It stands to reason that such a pilot would be the only one who didn't make mistakes.
Yes, as we usually think, the pilot not only fell asleep during the flight, but also had a bigger story-an air crash and almost crashed. But the final outcome was not the case, and even a fundamental reversal occurred.
What has actually happened? This exciting but thought-provoking story is what the American movie "Crash Landing Flight" tells.
As a Hollywood disaster film released in 2012, "Crash Landing" is adapted from real events and starred by the well-known black actor Denzel Washington . Although it is now counted as an old movie, the film was well received back then, not only won the 85th Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations, but also won the 70th Golden Globe Awards Nominated for the best actor in the film-drama category, it can be described as a masterpiece of strength.
In the film, the pilot Weipu, played by Denzel Washington, is addicted to alcohol, often drunk, and also likes to take drugs after drinking. His wife and son left him, and he got involved with his sexy stewardess colleague again, and he was drunk all day long.
One day, after "fighting" with the best girlfriend all night, Weipu, the captain, boarded the flight as usual, and his girlfriend was the flight attendant. Shortly after the plane took off, there was a sudden rainstorm, violent turbulence and danger. Weipu relied on his rich experience to drive the plane to quickly climb through the clouds, turning the danger to a breeze.
Watching the danger pass, Weipu delivered the plane to the deputy captain, and fell asleep after adding two bottles of vodka to the drink. I don't want the plane to lose control of a sudden mechanical failure and start to fall quickly.
At the critical juncture of his nine lives, Weipu instinctively made a decision that was almost impossible to succeed: "rolling" the plane upside down to avoid crashing the plane in the urban area, causing more casualties. After a thrilling operation, the plane finally made an emergency landing on a piece of grass. In this accident, most of the passengers were rescued. Only 6 passengers and crew died. Among them was the flight attendant's girlfriend who also loved to drink.
At this moment, Weipu became a hero, and reporters from all walks of life rushed to interview him, but he kept avoiding him. At the same time, the U.S. Transportation Safety Commission also began investigating the cause of the accident. Among all the crew members, only Weipu and his girlfriend contained alcohol in their blood. Even worse, the investigation team also found the two empty vodka bottles that he had thrown away in the plane’s trash can. Because the flight did not distribute food and drinks to the passengers, the two bottles of wine could only be drunk secretly by the crew, either Vip or his girlfriend.
In order to reduce the liability for compensation, the airline where Weipu works has hired a senior lawyer to defend him. After clearing a number of obstacles to Weipu, the lawyer told Weipu that he only had to say at the hearing that he was not drinking the wine, and he could be released without charge. After all, there is no proof.
Whether to continue to be a hero or become a prisoner, Weipu is facing tremendous pressure and incomparable suffering. In order to relieve the pressure, the protagonist who has been able to pick up girls quickly got a blonde beauty, and even wanted to fly a plane to take her to Jamaica, but the other party finally left without saying goodbye. Not only that, the male protagonist who was once determined to give up alcohol and drugs again relied on alcohol to anaesthetize himself, even if it was the day before the hearing, he was still drunk. Everything seems to indicate that the male protagonist has completely given up on himself.
At the hearing to decide his fate, Weipu responded to the judge's inquiry one by one lie according to the lawyer's pre-arranged. When faced with the most important question, that is, whether he had drunk the two bottles of wine, although the judge had prepared a foreshadowing to guide him to answer in the negative, after some struggle, Weipu found out that it was out of all conscience. It was unexpectedly admitted that he drank the wine by himself. As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar. In the end, Weipu was thrown into prison, and his life fell to the bottom.
However, facing this result, Weipu was relieved, because he no longer had to suffer spiritually for lying. In prison, he shared his story with his fellow inmates, and he warned everyone not to go against their own heart, and to live magnanimously is the most important thing. And this is exactly what the film wants to convey to the audience, an old but often new topic.
Now, 10 years have passed since its release. When I watch this movie again, I still have a lot of insights. This is not only the air disaster response and emergency landing scenes presented in the film are still classics today, but also the washing and comfort that this film brings to our hearts when we are troubled by the fog of life.
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