For responsibility or for freedom?

Jarret 2022-04-21 09:01:25

I took the time to watch this "Flight" (Hong Kong translation: Confidential Truth), and after reading it, I felt that it was not bad. The protagonist finally dared to face himself, admitted that he was an alcoholic, and accepted legal sanctions.
But I always feel that he did this not because he really should be responsible for the 4 people who died after the plane crashed (4 out of 100 people died), but more for himself, to free himself, and not to be addicted to alcohol, I don't want to keep lying.
Although he is said to be very courageous, this courage is not because he feels that he is really responsible and must be responsible for the six people who died, but other reasons that make him unwilling to hide it. He feels that he has ruined his life after drinking alcohol. But he had never been willing to change anything or pay any price before, and now he felt that it was time for atonement. After all, it was for himself, and the rest was just incidental.
He's not a great person, just like Forrest Gump (the director is the one who filmed Forrest Gump), Forrest Gump isn't great either, he just does what others seem great.

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Extended Reading
  • Jeromy 2021-10-20 19:01:46

    The salt water brother on the hospital stairs is the highlight!

  • Monte 2022-03-24 09:01:22

    Looking ahead, I thought Zemikis would continue to think about the grand motif of "God is dead" in "Time Contact". In the end, after a long period of trouble, it was also an American-style main theme movie of "resurrecting one's heart and being a new man". He no longer shows his paranoia about technology this time, nor can he tell whether it is good or bad. The film is indeed better than Beowulf’s Christmas Carol, but it’s no longer a tech madman. What's the point of being a "Tony Court" type director?

Flight quotes

  • Atlanta ATC: SouthJet 227, Atlanta Centre. Descend and maintain flight level three-zero-zero.

    Ken Evans: Descend and maintain flight level three-zero-zero, SouthJet 227.

    Whip: Whoa, wha? What is that?

    Ken Evans: The elevator feels really stiff, sir!

    Whip: Alright, hold course. Margaret, get everybody strapped in, get everybody strapped in tight!

    Ken Evans: Full left hard sir!

    Whip: Power back! Power back!

    Margaret Thomason: Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts now! Fasten your seatbelts securely now!

    Ken Evans: I have no control on my side. No control at all sir.

    Whip: We've lost our hydraulics. Centre, this is SouthJet 227, we've lost our hydraulics and feels like our pitch control.

    Atlanta ATC: Southjet 227, Atlanta Centre, understand you've lost hydraulics and pitch control?

    Whip: That is affirm, we are in an uncontrolled descent.

    Atlanta ATC: Southjet 227, Atlanta, say your intentions. Are you declaring an emergency?

    Margaret Thomason: Everyone's belted in, are we going down?

    Whip: We need everyone in brace positions. Yes, that is affirm, we are in a dive. We are in a dive. We have lost vertical control. We're gonna need drag, I want you to throw out everything you got, the speedbrakes, the gear, everything.

    Ken Evans: Gear, speedbrakes.

    Margaret Thomason: Brace positions, head down and forward, head down and forward!

    Ken Evans: Uh, gear is down. I don't think hydraulics is the problem sir.

    Whip: We need to dump the fuel, do it! Atlanta Centre, this is SouthJet 227, we are in an uncontrolled dive, descending out of 21,000 feet, we're declaring an emergency. We've dumped our fuel. We've got a jammed stabilizer or something, we need a block of altitude to work the problem and a heading to the nearest airport.

    Atlanta ATC: SouthJet 227, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is twelve o clock at two-zero miles from your present position. Turn left, heading three-one-five.

    Whip: Dump the flaps.

    Ken Evans: We're still fast.

    Whip: Just do it. Do it, 30 degrees. Three-one-five, we'll try our best. Alright, that bought us a little time. That bought us a little time. Now we've got to revert to manual control, your side first.

    Ken Evans: OK, I got it. Nothing, no control. Oh no, we're diving again!

    Whip: Alright, Okay, okay. I can't let go of my side, see if you can reach my side.

  • Whip: Whip : That was it. I was finished. I was done.

    Whip: It was as if I had reached my lifelong limit... of lies !

    Whip: I could not tell one more lie.

    Whip: And maybe I'm a sucker !