2. ... dramatically. (I already noted that it distorts historical truth to make government the villain).
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3. The audience is asked to believe that the real story wasn't the four minutes during which Sully had to decide where to put his plane...
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4. ... but the (made-up) oafishness of NTSB paper-pushers who want to throw the book at Sully for not landing his plane on terra firma.
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5. But of course the real story is what happened in the plane, not what happened in the hearing room. That would be true even if ...
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6. ... the conflict between the government investigators and Sully weren't made up.
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7. The movie is pretty much of a bore until we get to the flashbacks depicting the water landing.
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8. Those scenes are thrilling. And one is stirred not only by Sully's heroism but by that of the rescuers, who all happen to work for ...
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did you notice any non-white characters or even extras?
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I didn't but they may have been there. Wasn't thinking about that.
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I started thinking about it halfway through the film and couldn't find one. @TimothyNoah1
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Interesting. That would surely be inaccurate--can't imagine there was a dearth of blacks and Latinos among rescuers
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also I imagine a flight from nyc to CLT would not be lily white.
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