Nothing can't be done--Comment on the movie "The Phoenix Tribulation"

Shakira 2021-12-24 08:01:34

The movie "The Flight of the Phoenix" (The Flight of the Phoenix) I saw yesterday on the CCTV movie channel. I thought it was a new film. After I watched it, I searched the Internet and found out that it was a film remade by Fox in 2004. The original film was shot in 1965, and because of the extensive use of flying stunts, it once led to execution. The plane for the shooting mission crashed.
The film tells the story of a transport mission that crashed in the Mongolian desert due to weather. Relying on the joint efforts of the survivors, using the parts of the crashed aircraft to rebuild an aircraft in the desert and successfully fly into the blue sky, it will survive. The story of personnel taking away from danger.
As the saying goes, no coincidence does not make a book, such a bizarre story, of course, is inseparable from the bizarre plot. First, the film forced the plane to land on an uninhabited desert, creating a relatively closed and dependent living environment for the survivors; second, the film completely damaged the aircraft's communication system, making it impossible to communicate with the outside world; Third, the film allows the aircraft to retain a certain amount of water and food to ensure that these survivors can survive for a period of time; fourth, the film leaves an engine of the aircraft intact, while retaining a certain amount of fuel. It created conditions for the construction and use of the new aircraft. Fifth, the film allowed the survivors of the aircraft to have both growth and aircraft designers, and at the same time reserved enough numbers to make it possible to build the aircraft.
After making the above preparations, the film described the escape of survivors, especially the construction of new aircraft, with tension and twists and turns, one by one eliminated the possibility of other self-rescue, and unified the thinking of all survivors to the only feasible one. The way is to build an airplane. And this process is exactly the process of exposing and eliminating various contradictions. One is the contradiction between going out of the desert and waiting for rescue. Around this issue, they had a fierce argument, and reason finally took the upper hand. They knew that it was impossible to go out in the depths of the desert where they were. The second is the contradiction between waiting for rescue and building aircraft. The focus of this contradiction is concentrated on the use of stored water. If they do nothing, they may store enough water to survive for 30 days. However, if they start the construction of the aircraft, the water consumption will double, which means that the water will only be stored for 15 days. And most importantly, the captain clearly opposed the plan to build the aircraft at the beginning. Because with his experience and experience, he did not believe that relying on a few of them would build a flying airplane.
Fortunately, the departure of a companion and the subsequent discovery of the banditry of the desert robbers by the captain turned him from an opponent to a supporter. The third is the contradiction between the captain and the designer. These two roles are indispensable to the construction of the aircraft. Without a designer, no one knows how to build an airplane; and without a captain, the airplane cannot fly even if it is built. Therefore, the contradiction between these two roles almost runs through. But when everyone finally realized that there was only one road to build airplanes, everyone had to surrender to the designer and willingly obey his leadership, including the captain. The fourth is the contradiction between the construction of the aircraft and the attack by the robbers. Encountering robbers brought the surviving personnel closer together. There seemed to be only three paths before them: one was killed by robbers, one was starved to death due to running out of water and food, and the other was construction. The plane escaped. Obviously, the first two are dead ends, and only the third one is the only correct one.
In this way, in this particular atmosphere, they gradually cleared their minds, unified their thoughts, and embarked on the seemingly impossible journey of building an airplane with the hope of escape.
And in the end, their efforts were of course not in vain. An airplane built by them was successfully lifted off at the last moment when more robbers attacked, and they got rid of the desperate situation.
The sea is flowing, and the hero is true. In many cases, human potential needs to be stimulated by changes in the environment. These potentials are actually hiding in a corner of our body, ready to create miracles on earth at any time. Therefore, don't give up hard work, don't give up dreams easily, and believe that as long as we are willing to give and explore, nothing can't be done. This is perhaps the most valuable asset left to us by this film.

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Flight of the Phoenix quotes

  • Sammi: I thought you weren't religious, Rady.

    Rady: Spirituality is not religion. Religion divides people. Believe in something you must.

  • Alex Rodney: I thought you weren't religious, Rady?

    Rady: Spirituality is not religion. Religion divides people. Belief in something unites them.