"A teddy bear does not constitute an inaccurate passenger manifest."
Captain Rich
Flightplan
2005
What would you do if you knew something was true, yet, no one believed you? How often do we find ourselves in situations where we know it is right beyond all recognition and our words, actions and temperament say the opposite?
Flightplan is one of those films that tests this philosophy. Knowing you have the answers, yet no one is listening. Jodie Foster plays Kyle Pratt, a woman taking her husband home from Berlin in a casket, alongside with her daughter, in which vanishes on the plane.
The intriguing disposition here is how quickly a story can change, and how immediate a group of people can be persuaded. The most difficult part to the story is when the truth becomes a hard pill to swallow for a mother, whom begins to doubt her own intuition.
Who do you know that doubts you?
Doubt is one of those topics that can drive people insane. Doubt is one of those fears that comes realistically front and center when the doubter becomes the doubted, and doubted stops be living in their own validity. Doubt can do awful things to a person's mind. Doubt can do harm to a person's soul. I tend to doubt the unknown, yet, falter in questioning the known.
"Look, I know you're here just to keep me calm, but the problem is not that I'm anxious, the problem is that my daughter is missing and no one can tell me where the hell she is!" - Kyle
Anxiety is a perplexing issue. Anxiety is and can be powerful when in a doubted conversation. Teaching one another our combative styles through doubt often leads to anxiety, and that anxiety only gives presence to insecurity.
Once we discover that insecurity stems from others teaching us that we are not valid or show validity in what we know, we start believing in the discourse that our luck entails. Doing what is right and believing in those that tell us a story, will teach that person to ignore the doubt and face the reality of the circumstance.
Audiences and those who've been in Kyle's shoes can relate when honesty presses up against the storyline of Flightplan. Feeling for a mother's scorn from the truth, and the doubt of a story told to be true, leaves the audiences to face the fast paced, edge of your seat reality at hand that in any given circumstance, this could happen to anyone.
What would we do to erase doubt? What lengths would you go to bring back trust in one another, and persevere knowing the truth was right in front of you?
Conspiracy or not, validity or not, infinitely tried and true... intuition is powerful; doubt is a weakness.
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Julie.. Hello!!! Yes... love your concept of "long tunnels of doubt"... that will be interesting. Write about it. Please!
Jodi was perfect... I guess I have to get past her other roles to see her in this one. Thanks Thoth!