"Captain Sully" won the 41st American Film Institute Awards for Best Film of the Year
Humans are the only animals that know they live in time.
After watching "Captain Sully," I actually thought of this phrase again.
He flew US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in New York after the plane's twin engines were out of power. His calm move in 208 seconds saved 155 people — including himself.
US Airways Flight 1549 made a landfall on the Hudson River in New York
He was Captain Sully. He's a hero, and he's an ordinary man.
In machine simulation experiments for review hearings, Flight 1549 was considered safe to return to the airport, rather than making a surface forced landing with the "impossible to complete the task" option. Sully's approach was questioned as more likely to cause machine destruction.
A big heart equals a big risk.
Sully made a generous statement to the effect that it was people who flew airplanes, not machines capable of making instantaneous judgments. Computer simulations, no artificial analysis and decision-making processes (just as machines cannot produce or perceive a sense of tension and crisis in the seconds).
If you want to find human error, you must take into account the human factor. Finally, the review committee put a reaction time of 35 seconds into a machine simulation, for a total of 208 seconds.
In the process of listening to the cockpit call recordings, we, like the movie characters, repeated the 208-second emergency landing in our minds. It was so short, too short for people to react dramatically, too short for Eastwood to add to it—the film had to be put back and forth twice.
But it's too long. It's so long that no one wants to experience such a bad day, and there are 208 seconds to die at any time.
Then there was the comment that within 208 seconds, Captain Sully, played by Tom Hanks, was holding him tightly by the throat. He seized the moment and he seized the moment.
The film efficiently and accurately restores the 208-second emergency landing that determines life and death
If you've ever flown in and understood the panic of impending doom and life, the film is really conveying tension in seconds. The powerless always have to call out an omnipotent person, so even good luck will be on their side.
Captain Sully is not a heroic film or an informative biography. Sully's past, with little to discover, is brushed over by lines. His miraculous actions, his calmness, are more like dedication to duty, the professionalism and professionalism accumulated by flying day after day.
He's not a aspiring aviator or a good guy for an emergency landing (the first time he's had such a major accident). His reaction, his judgment, his tone, are like a sophisticated machine with excellent performance, but he is not a machine.
Many people expect the film to land on the Hudson River as a climactic scene, with a close-up of Captain Sully's gritty expression, a calm and calm personal instruction, a dazzling quick cut, and an exaggerated rescue. But the film disrupts the narrative, and the hearing becomes the highlight. The flashback of the forced landing process is full of methodical, dedicated duties, and concerted efforts. From the cooperation of the captain and co-pilot, to the emergency landing warning of the crew, to the orderly evacuation of passengers, the rapid arrival of river patrols and New York police, and even the sudden tears of the tower staff. They are interlinked and indispensable. What they think and show is purely the word "save people".
The whole film, not so much about the lengthy censorship hearing, is that Captain Sully, after his inner turmoil, sought self-affirmation from tapping each other on the shoulder: We're great. The affirmation and praise of personal value also echoes the constant tough guy theme of Eastwood's work—Eastwood's ability to master narrative rhythm and mental time is almost like Captain Sully who operates an airplane. This is the story of Captain Sully, the story of Us Airways, and it is an American story worth circulating.
The lengthy censorship hearing is the climax of the film's later part
Behind "Captain Sully" also reflects the aviation safety problem that humans can easily feel. After the new century, it became a global topic. As the movie jokes, the news about the plane is finally good news.
The civilian airliner hijacked by terrorists created the horrific 9/11 incident. MaHang, who disappeared somewhere and was shot down by a missile, the Brazilian Chapecons team that just destroyed a championship team...
Airplane navigation has saved humans time and costs, but when the plane is in danger, humans will find it difficult for them to control the machine. However, such words may sound like false propositions. Airplanes are still one of the most secure means of transport.
I vividly remember the news of the forced landing on the Hudson River, which at first glance sounded very powerful, but the picture looked unremarkable. On each wing, there stood a row of passengers. "Captain Sully" copied this image almost as it was, and accurately described how surprised I felt when I saw the news report.
It's a picture without emotion, because you don't know anything. It's like seeing the news footage of the 9/11 incident for the first time, and you will even feel exaggerated and bizarrely shocked.
As an audience member, I experienced a remarkable water landing in the cinema with Captain Sully. In Paul Greengrass's Flight 93, the final fate of the passengers is also known to the audience in advance. The film reenacts the air disaster against the terrorists, rendering the chaos, suffocation and oppression of the scene through hand-held photography. But many said they'd rather not have seen the movie.
Because as the time of that movie ended, the lives of many people also came to an end. end.
It's not the flood, the cheapness, the animal sentimentality triggered by the movie, but what we can perceive, every second of time on the plane, equal to human life itself.