post# 2: Flight

 Flight is a 2012 film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis. This film stars Denzel Washington, with Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, and Bruce Greenwood in a 139 minute movie about a plane crash and the aftermath that follows. Whip Whitaker a commercial airline pilot, alcoholic and recreational drug user has to fly flight #227 to Atlanta from Orlando. Immediately after take off they encounter extremely heavy turbulance in a huge storm. They finally make it above the clouds and have smooth flying. When they begin to descent something goes very wrong and they turn into a vertical nose dive. Whip has to turn the plane inverted in order to regain control and make a crash landing. In the crash six people die and many are injured including Whip and his co pilot. When the NTSB investigates what happened they find that Whips blood alcohol level is .2 and that he was high on coke at the time of the flight. The rest of the movie shows Whips fight with alcoholism and the trial of what caused the six people to die on the plane.

I would give this movie an eight out of ten stars. It was a great combination of action, suspense and emotion. Denzel does an awesome job of playing his drunk but yet very confident and capable character of Whip Whitaker. I thought that the story line was very good and very original. I liked how they put the plane crash and only the first 20 min of the movie and the rest was about Whip and his struggles to find who he really was and face his fears. I also liked the way they filmed the movie they would use many different styles of filming to show different perspectives and moods. 

The coolest scene to me was right after the plane crashed. It sets the camera as Whips point of view as he is slowly dragged out of the cockpit an into the field where the plane crashed. The viewer sees glimpses of the burning plane, hurt and survived passengers, and the immediate chaos after the crash. It gives you a sense of what every one that is there is going through. They keep the same camera view into the next scene as Whip wakes up in a hospital bed. I think that this scene is so original and contrasts the way the rest of the movie is filmed. it makes this scene feel more important to the viewer and shows what exactly Whip is going through and his reactions to this event.