Fearless

Fearless

In my book one of the best movies of the 90s.

Plot:

Man survives a plane crash.

Review:

Having seen Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski and The men who stare at goats, among others, makes it really interesting seeing him in something completely different. His acting in this film is quite spectacular. Peter Weir, the director, is mostly famous for his " Dead poets society" and this is nothing like it, Fearless is a more quieter but at the same time deeper film. Very underrated film in my opinion.

This film is based on a novel by Rafael Yglesias. A successful architecht from San Fransico named Max Klein survives a plane crash. Klein's partner and best friend did not survive neither did the child of Carla (Rosie Perez) which is a young Puerto Rican woman from Oakland. Max was afraid of flying before the plane crashed and facing a certain death while the plane is going down he finally accepts death. Having survived against all odd he finds himself with post-traumatic stress syndrome which creates a divide between him and reality and him and his family. Both being survivors and affected by PTSD Carla and Max forms a friendship in trying to cope with getting back into everyday life.

This is an interesting look into two human beings and their life after surviving a plane crash. Carlas emotional response is mostly guilt and blames herself for the loss of her child. Max experiences a lack of emotions and tries to challenge this by doing crazy stunts like walking on the edge of a skyscraper. It is an interesting look into such a basic emotion like fear or rather the lack of it and what that might do to a human being. Exploring emotions like this is very interesting, atleast exploring fear/fearlessness given that the emotion almost exclusively being explored in films is love.

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