FLIGHT – though simply a glib exercise in story telling, Hollywood is managing to make lots of money, chiefly because Denzel Washington has somehow become the cash cow in many of these releases. Having made more than $8 M in a day and half, Flight is set to rake in enough money to sail clear of its budget by the weekend.
But, it is not the money that bothers me; it is the applause in the theater when the credits rolled in. I thought it was a non-story, unfortunately some thought quite the opposite.
When it comes to the cinema nowadays, it is difficult to get some audiences to be abhorred by Hollywood’s trick of a film, when their very entertainment and night-out depend upon their not thinking they wasted their money.
Flight adds to the number of films coming out of Hollywood that have exacerbated the transformation of cinema into a form of prostitution. I could not believe how the first few frames of a film could be so inundated with so much ass, hairy pussy and breasts from a single flight attendant.
Nonetheless, Denzel Washington, the airline pilot saves the mechanically doomed flight from crashing all its contents – saving 102 lives out of 106. Now, you wonder where this set up would lead? Nowhere! One would have wished that the investigation into the malfunction would reveal something more troubling – like a conspiracy – but it didn’t.
As it turns out, Denzel Washington is an alcoholic, a drug addict, an absentee father to a black son, a horrible husband to a black woman, an irresponsible womanizer of some sort, and oh, let’s see, a black man from Atlanta who loves himself some white pussy. All the stereotypes you learn from white folks’ interpretations of the lives of black men and the black family.
Furthermore, Flight, as much a white sociological dissection of black life, is also a ridiculous exercise on the philosophical misrepresentations of the Christian doctrine. I will desist from pointing out some of the mockery made of Christians, but I can conclude – by leak or by deduction – writer John Gatins an atheist, and one who seems to lack any understanding of the rough racial terrain we all tread in America.
Social responsibility must come from either side. Flight may be entertaining to those whose veil of color-blindness has thickened and whose sense of free speech borders on making mockery of other’s religious beliefs; for what seems like an understanding of the black family is in fact just a thorough misunderstanding of it and what seems like a first hand appreciation of the epistemology on Christian Beliefs, only portrays stupidity at its best and at worst, gross religious intolerance. I am disappointed to see gray-haired Denzel Washington accept a role like this.
But then again, it is so difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary and tax returns depend upon his not understanding it.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: John Gatins
Stars: Nadine Velazquez, Denzel Washington and Carter Cabassa
Again one of those Hollywood films where women are portrayed as sex objects. Here we have a woman in a respectable job, flight attendant, who just sleeps around with the pilot. Another woman is all helpless, being kicked out of her apartment by a man. Another powerful man has to come and save her, give her a place to sleep. But that’s not enough, she must fuck the man.
Then you have the black woman who just calls the man for money. The whole film is peppered with these nonsensical chauvinist attitudes about women. These white boys growing up in Hollywood need to read a little – they seem ignorant directing and writing the stories we got to the movies to see.