{"id":1441,"date":"2016-12-13T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:53:04","slug":"sully-no-one-dies-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/12\/sully-no-one-dies-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Sully : \u2018No one dies today\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one dies today is a theme of director Clint Eastwood\u2019s latest film Sully<\/em> (2016). There are other ideas competing.<\/p>\n

Sully<\/em> is typically Eastwood on the issues, but in a far more subtle way than his Million Dollar Baby.<\/p>\n

The idea remains the same. \u00a0Logistics, technicalities and rules and regulations get in the way of the core issue: humanity.<\/p>\n

Million Dollar Baby, where a promising boxer\u2019s career comes to an untimely end, appeared to say that the rules against euthanizing her were ludicrous. This is in light of a young woman\u2019s demise where her young life had more than stalled. Her life on earth appeared to have halted in its tracks.<\/p>\n

Some disagreed with the view that her life could be humanely ended, but Sully<\/em> takes a similar route with a palatable story to present the same sort of ideas that were in Million Dollar Baby.<\/p>\n

Chesley \u2018Sully\u2019 Sullenberger is an experienced pilot who saves 155 passengers on a flight in 2009. He crash lands the plane on the Hudson River in New York and evacuates the passengers in the dead of winter.<\/p>\n

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Tom Hanks (Pictured right) as Chesley Sullenberger in “Sully”. (Image sourced via google images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sullenberger\u2019s an all American hero, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) make an investigation into Sullenberger\u2019s piloting technique. Did he make the right choice when their computer simulation shows that the plane could have been landed in another direction safely?<\/p>\n

The portrayal is controversial. The NTSB are portrayed as the one dimensional rule makers. And, the movie says, in such a regulated environment, they lose sight of the humanity. Sullenberger saved lives. Why doesn\u2019t the NTSB see it?<\/p>\n

Law and grace<\/h4>\n

Sullenberger\u2019s choice in the end turned a potential tragedy into a victory, but the NTSB scream over the logistics of such an undertaking.<\/p>\n

Sully<\/em> shows that there is law and there is grace. It’s saying that grace should be showered on humanity\u2014in a rather libertarian fashion\u2014rather than let laws stifle the most humane grace that can be given by another human being.<\/p>\n

This is theme that is asking why didn’t we see the humanity in Million Dollar Baby?<\/p>\n

The kind of grace in Sully<\/em> is not specifically religious or Christian grace. Humanity is at the center, but I have a hunch that director Clint may be thinking, God guided Sullenberger to the best end. Perhaps, but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I think God\u2019s grace per-se has never been obvious in an Eastwood film. Sullenberger is referred to in one scene by a reporter as \u201ca man for all time\u201d. Humanity is central. God is up there perhaps, but God\u2019s not obvious as the guiding life of Sullenberger\u2019s rescue.<\/p>\n

For all these reservations, Sully<\/em> affirms life in a purely platonic way. No one dies today. The fact that all the people were saved on the flight is two thumbs up.<\/p>\n

The rescue made every New Yorker\u2019s day. New Yorkers were in need of something uplifting says the film. Instead of a tragedy, a victory is made out of a potential tragedy instead.<\/p>\n

Out on DVD December 20, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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