Features of Captain Sully

Lottie 2022-04-21 09:01:42

The aviation miracle that took place in New York, USA (based on the film based on the accident of US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009), a low-altitude flight encountered a flock of birds, and the captain made an astonishing emergency landing on the Hudson River. In the end, all 155 people on board escaped safely. The narrative technique and perspective of the film are different from the positive logic of "Captain China", but adopt the angle of accountability after the incident. The technique of flashback + interlude + retrospective is composed of multiple perspectives superimposed, and there is a double expectation arrangement: 1. How did the thrilling scene of the incident escape from danger under the captain's efforts to turn the tide. 2. How will the accountability be determined afterwards, and whether the captain chose to make a forced landing on the river instead of returning to the land airport was right or wrong. The rhythm of the whole article is compact and fascinating, and the perspective is unique, the arrangement is reasonable, and the final ending is powerful and sublimated in place. Another feature of the film is that it proposes a reflection on the relationship between human nature-experience judgment and science and technology-machine (computer and other digital, simulator) judgments. Which is higher and which is lower, who is more correct, or how to manage the relationship between the two when a problem occurs. The film grasps the contradiction between the two as the core development. Although the result is human nature > technological nature, the real situation is actually much more complicated. When people enter the industrial age, especially the post-industrial age, the alienation, materialization, and loss of subjectivity of people have been happening with the development of science and technology. The superiority and uniqueness of human nature, the self-confidence and dignity, judgment and ability of human beings have been questioned and challenged. The characterization is the loneliness of the humanities and social sciences, and the overwhelming victory of the natural sciences. The significance of the present for human nature itself, we should really think carefully about how its subjectivity can be restored.

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  • Oceane 2022-03-19 09:01:04

    A story that can be told in a few minutes, but it is very rich and restrained. Seeing now, this year is the best.

  • Chauncey 2022-03-21 09:01:38

    Don’t talk about anti-intellectual issues, the hero templates, the media and bureaucratic elites, are all outdated routines. This film is so esteemed that it can only be said to be a backlash to the liberal culture.

Sully quotes

  • Jeff Skiles: [after they've all been brought ashore] I've never been so glad to be in New York.

  • Elizabeth Davis: I'd like to add something on a personal note: I can say with confidence, that after speaking with the rest of the flight crew, with bird experts and airplane engineers, after running all the scenarios and talking to each of the players... there is an X in this result.

    Elizabeth Davis: It's you, Captain Sullenberger. Take you out of the equation and the math just fails.

    Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: I disagree. It wasn't just me, it was all of us. Jeff, Donna, Sheila, Doreen. The passengers, rescue workers. Air traffic control, ferry boat crews and scuba cops. We all did it. We survived.