Fearless (film)
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Fearless is a 1993 film directed by Peter Weir and written by Rafael Yglesias from his novel of the same name.
Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo. She lost to Anna Paquin. The film features part of the first movement of Henryk Górecki's third symphony, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
Max Klein is a survivor of an plane crash. Many die, including his business partner. The trauma transforms his entire life. He enters an altered state of consciousness; soon after the crash he even thinks he is dead, and begins rethinking life, death, God, and the afterlife. Existential questions start to preoccupy his life. He moves away from his wife, son, and friends but, encouraged by an aircraft company psychiatrist, he tries to break the depression and apathy of another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who lost her baby son during the flight. Eventually Max's increasingly dramatic attempts at pushing the boundaries between life and death succeed in jolting Carla from her uncertain state. However, after parting company with Carla, Max remains preoccupied, which endangers his relationship with his wife and son. Max has another, more serious near-death experience after eating strawberries, to which he has a severe allergic reaction. He survives and (it is implied) he recovers his emotional connection to his family and the world.
Historical connections
The doomed flight in the movie bears many resemblances with the real-life crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989:- The plane suffered a failure in the hydraulics system, following an engine explosion.
- The crew attempted an emergency landing, and many of the passengers and crew survived.
- The speech given by the Captain to the passengers before impact resembles closely to the one Captain Al Haynes gave in real life, including his closing line "Good luck to us all."
- A man receives media coverage for saving the life of a small child. In the movie, the hero is Max Klein, a survivor. In real life, it was Colonel Dennis Nielsen, a rescuer.
- The plane skids into a cornfield.
External links
| Films Directed by Peter Weir |
| Homesdale | The Cars That Ate Paris | Picnic at Hanging Rock | The Last Wave | Gallipoli | The Year of Living Dangerously | Witness | The Mosquito Coast | Dead Poets Society | Green Card | Fearless | The Truman Show | | War Magician | Pattern Recognition |
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