Flight Plan
—1. Overview (multimedia)
—2. Overview Basic (dial up speed)
—3. Reviews and Blogs
—4. Cast and Crew
—5. Photo Pages
—6. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack
—7. Posters
—8. Production Notes (pdf)
—9. Spiritual Connections
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) has her hands full with the death of her husband and the return of his body to the United States from Germany. Add to that the disappearance of her six-year old daughter Julia and you have the recipe for tension. Or to put it mathematically, add one part Panic Room, one part The Forgotten, and one part Red Eye, and you get Flight Plan.
Fortunately, the acting in the film is pretty good. The tension mounts with well-shot scenes that provide information but leave the audience guessing about the ‘whole’ truth. Does Pratt have a living daughter or a dead one? And if you believe that she’s not crazy, then who is out to deceive her and what is the point?
Sean Bean makes an appearance as the captain of the 474 aircraft that Pratt helped design but Peter Sarsgaard gets high marks for his portrayal of Marshal Gene Carson. Already rocked by the past five years worth of airborne terror, moviegoers will be inclined to think Foster’s Pratt might be onto something, just in time to be yanked back into everyday reality by mentioned medications and prior incidents. But if you watched the preview closely enough, then the truth is already out there.
I was struck, as I was watching The Forgotten, by the love that is depicted as a mother searches frantically for her missing child. While everyone around her calls her crazy, Pratt loves her daughter so much that she throws the proverbial abandon to the wind. The love that Jesus talked about was foolishness to the wise but served as truth in the kingdom of God that He described. Here a mother sacrifices her reputation, sanity, and even offers up her life to save her child.
In addition to the main plot, there is an interesting social commentary about dark-skinned individuals traveling on planes. The audience is led to believe, through the eyes of Pratt, that a group of Arabic men are involved. Prejudice just moves from one group to another, doesn’t it? We have to intervene individually for it to stop.
Finally, humanity as a whole is critiqued. No one cares, whispers the villain, no one spoke up as I shoved your child into a storage bin. Isn’t that sad but true? Just like Bonhoeffer’s comments about the dwindling populace around him as he did nothing, so the plane becomes the location for a kidnapping…and no one notices. How excellent a world we would live in, possibly even the kind of world Jesus hopes for us, if we started to notice each other and really cared. Just noticing would be a good start, but what if we started to love one another like desperate parents seeking out our lost children? Or should I say, shepherds seeking out our lost sheep?
—1. Overview (multimedia)
—2. Overview Basic (dial up speed)
—3. Reviews and Blogs
—4. Cast and Crew
—5. Photo Pages
—6. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack
—7. Posters
—8. Production Notes (pdf)
—9. Spiritual Connections
—2. Overview Basic (dial up speed)
—3. Reviews and Blogs
—4. Cast and Crew
—5. Photo Pages
—6. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack
—7. Posters
—8. Production Notes (pdf)
—9. Spiritual Connections
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) has her hands full with the death of her husband and the return of his body to the United States from Germany. Add to that the disappearance of her six-year old daughter Julia and you have the recipe for tension. Or to put it mathematically, add one part Panic Room, one part The Forgotten, and one part Red Eye, and you get Flight Plan.
Fortunately, the acting in the film is pretty good. The tension mounts with well-shot scenes that provide information but leave the audience guessing about the ‘whole’ truth. Does Pratt have a living daughter or a dead one? And if you believe that she’s not crazy, then who is out to deceive her and what is the point?Sean Bean makes an appearance as the captain of the 474 aircraft that Pratt helped design but Peter Sarsgaard gets high marks for his portrayal of Marshal Gene Carson. Already rocked by the past five years worth of airborne terror, moviegoers will be inclined to think Foster’s Pratt might be onto something, just in time to be yanked back into everyday reality by mentioned medications and prior incidents. But if you watched the preview closely enough, then the truth is already out there.
I was struck, as I was watching The Forgotten, by the love that is depicted as a mother searches frantically for her missing child. While everyone around her calls her crazy, Pratt loves her daughter so much that she throws the proverbial abandon to the wind. The love that Jesus talked about was foolishness to the wise but served as truth in the kingdom of God that He described. Here a mother sacrifices her reputation, sanity, and even offers up her life to save her child.
In addition to the main plot, there is an interesting social commentary about dark-skinned individuals traveling on planes. The audience is led to believe, through the eyes of Pratt, that a group of Arabic men are involved. Prejudice just moves from one group to another, doesn’t it? We have to intervene individually for it to stop.
Finally, humanity as a whole is critiqued. No one cares, whispers the villain, no one spoke up as I shoved your child into a storage bin. Isn’t that sad but true? Just like Bonhoeffer’s comments about the dwindling populace around him as he did nothing, so the plane becomes the location for a kidnapping…and no one notices. How excellent a world we would live in, possibly even the kind of world Jesus hopes for us, if we started to notice each other and really cared. Just noticing would be a good start, but what if we started to love one another like desperate parents seeking out our lost children? Or should I say, shepherds seeking out our lost sheep?
—1. Overview (multimedia)
—2. Overview Basic (dial up speed)
—3. Reviews and Blogs
—4. Cast and Crew
—5. Photo Pages
—6. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack
—7. Posters
—8. Production Notes (pdf)
—9. Spiritual Connections
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