Sully’s miraculous story

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In Clint Eastwoods new movie, Tom Hanks portrays Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. The movie is about an actual terrifying event that occurred on the Hudson river between New York and New Jersey.

Michael Perlak, Oracle Staff Writer

In his latest movie, Tom Hanks is a captain again, but this time it isn’t Somalian pirates disrupting his travels.
In “Sully,” director Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, the events of the 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson” are cinematically portrayed. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed his disabled passenger jet on the Hudson River after an engine-destroying bird strike, saving the lives on board.
The movie consists of a series of flashbacks of pilot Sullenberger, who is called Sully by his friends. It covers the airplane’s destruction, landing, and evacuation, touches on Sullenberger’s brief communications with his wife at home, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) trying to blame Sullenberger for the ordeal.
The producers made good use of their $60 million budget, which can be seen in the amazing special effects that beautifully recreate the airplane’s descent upon New York City and its violent landing on the Hudson River. Every scene is well done, suspenseful, and fittingly dramatic.
The hour-and-a-half long movie keeps you interested the whole time because it switches between different memories of Sullenberger, beginning with his mental recovery in his hotel room after the ordeal. But right when you think that the movie is getting calmer, it flashes back to an unexpected scene, and captivates your attention again.
One of the most emotional scenes of the movie is when the plane is being evacuated on the Hudson River, and within minutes the entire city is on edge. New York first responders, police, ambulances, the fire department, the SWAT team, the coast guard, as well as commercial boats and private helicopters all worked together to locate and rescue the passengers. Miraculously, nobody on board was killed, or even seriously wounded.
Clearly, this story is not a tragic one—it is really a miracle, and because of this, there is no natural “bad guy.” It should be noted that the NTSB’s questioning of Sullenberger’s actions is a little bit exaggerated in the “Hollywood” version of the story.
In the movie, the NTSB does its best to try and set the blame on Sullenberger for the accident. In reality, the NTSB was more lenient with him, and the NTSB came out about their views of the movie and expressed anger about this shortly after it was released.
Overall, the movie tells a very emotional story about a near aircraft disaster, and mixed with Tom Hanks’ acting genius and Clint Eastwood’s directing experience, I would say there is no movie better to see this October.