Director Robert Schwentke
Producer Robert DeNozzi, Charles J.D. Schlissel , Brian Graze
Writers Peter A. Dowling,Billy Ray
Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
Release date
September 23, 2005Running time 98 min
A little more than locked-room-mystery. Can a post 9/11 airplane hijack movie but have some political undertones ? The answer's no. And yes, there is no attempt to malign Muslims, East Europeans, Russians or even Black Americans. Rather, it, through showing an all-American terrorist bunch (duo, to be precise), kind of self criticizes American jingoism.
However so some it turned out to be putting slur on a particular occupational group. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, with 85,000 members, had called for an official boycott of the film! Yet, this is not something which cannot be neglected as a 'fictional demand'.
In the film we see a Middle East origin passenger (his accent and appearance suggest) is suspected for a few moments by the protagonist. But finally, at the last scene that very passenger is seen to help her hand. Not unusual. End of mistrust, beginning of global friendship – a cliché technique nowadays. And this is not for sure the dominant theme of the film, leaving a scope for it to work yet another agent to fuel the Great American Anxiety to be attacked by the aliens.
At the end of the day the supremacy of United States is confirmed. Wiki points out, 'as in many US-made films, the jurisdiction of the FBI seems to have been expanded beyond the borders of the United States. FBI Agents are seen making enquiries and arrests in Canada when the plane lands there. Additionally, those agents cite the fact that our office in Berlin has detained the morgue director. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, according to Canadian law, would have been the ones to detain suspects.'
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