So a plane crashes into the sea and we are about to witness the sheer rescue capabilities of the navy or spoken in a disaster movie term: human rescue capabilities.
The movie is based on a famous book by Royal Air Force pilot Arthur Hailey. I don't know about the book but the movie is based around polar opposites. Human vs nature is the true core of this film. The characters are/have always polar opposites. Rich and poor, altruism and egoism, young and old. The movie becomes enriched through the play of these different polarities. Iconic actors give the movie the class that it needs.
There is one more thing the movie creates. The romantic thought of safety through a certain kind of authority. It is the same romantic thought some have with German cars or the police as your friend and helper. Of course these thoughts are far from reality because there are thousands of people dying in the ocean around the globe. I speak of refugees that not get rescued by maritime service branches around the world. Even though I definitely doubt that if someone not as rich would be rescued like that. Nevertheless the movie, as smart as it is, shows the possibilities we had then (imagine what we could do today) and I think humans can do unimaginable things if we stick together and I like the thought I get from this movie: someday we might.
They don't make movies like that anymore. If military branches are shown today, they always fight. In todays disaster movies people need to help themselves or getting rescued by super heroes.
