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I saw 'Flightplan' on Friday.I had it on my Amazon DVD rental
plan. My friends and I had meant to see it when it was released in the
UK, but with children, homes abroad, busy workloads etc. we couldn't
get our arses into gear to go see it. Even then, one of our party had
to cry off because of family problems. (It's never easy organising this
stuff).
Jodie Foster is looking very thin and gaunt these days. It may have been the part she was playing, we all know how seriously she takes her art. Her character was grieving for her recently deceased husband and had a six year old to look after as they accompanied his body on a flight back to their home in the US.
Firstly I noticed how atmospheric the set was. Inside a (huge) aeroplane at night, everything dark with just those little lights on. I really felt I was there. I'm not a frequent flyer and I've never been in a plane with two decks (and a bar!), but I could feel it all. At first I thought this was a movie for woman as the main character awakes to find that her daughter is not lying next to her anymore and no amount of searching by her or the crew discoveres where she's gone. She is then told that her daughter has not been booked onto the flight and no-one has seen her at any time during boarding onwards. It's all very intriguing, and after a while you realise that the woman is familiar with the layout of this plane (she works as a .................. [ someone who checks the engines will work]). She crawls around the business end of the aircraft which is most interesting to me as I've never seen these bits before.
We are led to assume that she has gone a bit mad since the trauma of the death of her husband. We are also told that her daughter also died in the accident and both bodies are being returned home in the cargo hold.
I'm not going to spoil it for you, but just to let you know it's not a girl's film at all. It pretned to be at the beginning, but redeems itself as the plot thickens (twizzling of mustache - see, genuinely not a girl's film).
Jodie Foster is looking very thin and gaunt these days. It may have been the part she was playing, we all know how seriously she takes her art. Her character was grieving for her recently deceased husband and had a six year old to look after as they accompanied his body on a flight back to their home in the US.
Firstly I noticed how atmospheric the set was. Inside a (huge) aeroplane at night, everything dark with just those little lights on. I really felt I was there. I'm not a frequent flyer and I've never been in a plane with two decks (and a bar!), but I could feel it all. At first I thought this was a movie for woman as the main character awakes to find that her daughter is not lying next to her anymore and no amount of searching by her or the crew discoveres where she's gone. She is then told that her daughter has not been booked onto the flight and no-one has seen her at any time during boarding onwards. It's all very intriguing, and after a while you realise that the woman is familiar with the layout of this plane (she works as a .................. [ someone who checks the engines will work]). She crawls around the business end of the aircraft which is most interesting to me as I've never seen these bits before.
We are led to assume that she has gone a bit mad since the trauma of the death of her husband. We are also told that her daughter also died in the accident and both bodies are being returned home in the cargo hold.
I'm not going to spoil it for you, but just to let you know it's not a girl's film at all. It pretned to be at the beginning, but redeems itself as the plot thickens (twizzling of mustache - see, genuinely not a girl's film).
