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this bugs me....

posted 11 years ago by deliaw1946
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During the entire movie, the crew has been so horrible to her...not believing her, not taking the search seriously, letting her be abused and ridiculed by other passengers. Then at the end when she's sitting here looking totally shattered with unconcious child on her lap, the captain comes over and tries to be all nice and sympathetic. Even when FBI comes over and want her to make an ID of the funeral home director in Berlin, captain says "can it wait?" taking over HER decision. True, he did make a half-assed apology but I would have told him "get the hell away from me!" or would have had to stop myself from spitting in his face.

[–] toking65000 11 years ago

I agree, but the captain was in a TOUGH spot. I would NEVER want a job like that, I mean he was responsible for the lives of EVERYONE on board, so it would be hard to make the right call in a situation like that and plus he was under the impression she was a terrorist.

Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

[–] mikko-sandt 11 years ago

Apart from the mole, the crew actually acted appropriately. They had every reason to doubt her sanity.

[–] toking65000 11 years ago

It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but WHY didn't anyone on board remember seeing her with the girl?

Create a society in which you would like to live, not knowing what you're going to come into it as.

[–] mikko-sandt 11 years ago

If you look at the scenes where she was with the girl, the girl always out of everyone's sight. Moreover, they were in the plane well ahead of everyone else and when they were sleeping they were in the back of the cabin. How the terrorists anticipated this is obviously a plothole.

[–] deliaw1946 11 years ago

To me, the main plot hole is why they would pull the whole deal on a woman who is an airplane designer. Wouldn't they realize she knew every square inch of the plane and would have all the keys to get into every nook and cranny?

[–] mikko-sandt 11 years ago

But that was explained, that they specifically chose someone who knew the plane's design because such a person would make a credible hijacker.

[–] deliaw1946 11 years ago

I don't remember the explanation, but you are right. They were trying to pass her off as the hijacker, weren't they? When the air marshall went to the captain, telling him she had demanded money. The captain finally blurted out, in anger, "your money has been wired!" which revealed the plan to her.

[–] checkfreenewyork 11 years ago

I agree somewhat

[–] martinji 10 years ago

The Captain was actually very reasonable I think. Remember, from his point of view he has no idea if there is really a child, he has to go on what his crew tell him, in whom he will trust. His crew tell him point blank there is no child, that they've checked with the boarding gate, that the manifest says no child, that a headcount prior to take-off showed no child. Despite this, he still orders all passengers into their seats and a full search of the plane.

When that search comes back negative, in light of what his crew have told him and (he believes) confirmation from the airport gate, he's going to believe that Kyle is delusional, which makes even more sense given the news he's told from the morgue.

The rest of the crew, I agree are unnecessarily rude and dismissive, which according to the trivia section real life crew also thought was the case since they almost did an official boycott of the film.

[–] franzkabuki 8 years ago

The Captain acted perfectly adequately and sensibly throughout; no reason to be mad at him whatsoever.

"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

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[–] bjamzilla 8 years ago

Yes! I'm in customer service and while I do admittedly get annoyed by some people I empathize whenever there is a child involved, even a hypothetical. I wanted to slap all those flight attendants. They just didn't act human nor did the passengers.

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