Sully

Sully (2016)

Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Written by: Todd Komarnicki
Streaming on Netflix. 

The film follows an emergency landing of a flight in a river, where all the passengers and crew survive. But later, the safety board investigates and as per the simulation, it turns out that he could've actually gone to a nearby airport and landed the plane safely over there. The film is about the conflict that follows thereafter. I loved the structure of the film. The first 20-25 minutes of the film go on like a courtroom drama, and there is no action as such except the cold opening kind of sequence. After this, they show us the actual incident. It's a clever choice, because if they open with the actual incident, the courtroom drama would seem boring. They cleverly placed the sequence at the end of 30 minutes, so that they slowly build up the tension. They again use the sequence back at the ending, when they are listening to the audio - to again build tension and release it during the climax. 

It's interesting how he says that he has never made a mistake for 40 years, and he is judged for 200 seconds - and that's the nature of the job, where a lot of lives are dependent on a person. You cannot have scope for human error. And from there, the film takes a nice turn. Obviously, when they put up these allegations, they don't consider the human factor, and the level of anxiety they go through during the first hand experience. The film at the core of it talks about integrity, he is called a 'hero' and he says that he was just doing his job. At the end of the day, that's what matters - are you doing your job? If the answer is a 'yes', then a lot of other things don't really matter. The good things will eventually follow.