Film · Prime Video · 1995
Pass it on
Apollo 13
79Worth an evening.
Keep it. Competence, calm, and a square peg of a problem. One of the best pictures of work we have.
The review
Lovell wants the moon and gets a problem instead. The film's heroism is not a speech on the lawn. It is a CO2 canister, a trajectory, a wife who is not given a false comfort, a crew that does not waste air on panic. Failure is not a metaphor. It is a set of constraints. They respect the constraints and the men come home. A country watching is the public part, and it is not tacky. People should care whether the strangers in the capsule live.
Watch it with a young person who thinks heroism is a feeling. Then look at the table of parts and say: this is what it looked like.
Journal
Keep Apollo 13 in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 79. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 79
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 79. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.
The eight
- 10Industry
Engineering under a clock.
- 7Household
The families on the ground are not extras.
- 4Piety
Awe at the work. Little religious language, a real gravity.
- 8Courage
Calm nerve.
- 8Republic
A public effort that tells the truth about the failure.
- 8Temperance
Panic refused.
- 9Truth
They say it is broken.
- 9Stewardship
It hands on a respect for skill in the service of bringing people back.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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