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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Sully quotes

  • LT Cook: A pilot never stops acquiring knowledge. You'll make mistakes, everyone does. Just learn from them.

    Sully (16 Years Old): Yes, sir.

    LT Cook: And never forget, no matter what's happening, to fly the airplane.

  • Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: [New York late at night and both men can't sleep so they decide to go for a walk. It's cold outside and both are bundled up] It's all so unreal. I guess I'm just having a little trouble separating reality from whatever the hell this is.

    Jeff Skiles: This is two men freezing their asses off.

    [They both laugh]

    Jeff Skiles: Sully

    [pause]

    Jeff Skiles: don't worry. You did a great thing and it's going to be remembered for a very long time.

    Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: Funny thing is, I've delivered a million passengers over 40 years in the air and in the end I'll be judged on 208 seconds.

    Jeff Skiles: Come on. Tomorrow's going to be a good day. Computer SIMS will prove you were right and we can all put our wings back on.

    Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: Do you want to run?

    [Both men go jogging on down the street]