Monday, February 11, 2013

Stephen Whitty on Flight

          
Flight Review Thoughts
Eric Middleton


      
        I thought the review by Stephen Whitty was a very well written one full of substance and intuition. He harbors alot on what the audience feels the movie will be mostly about and he starts to unravel general questions. The first would be who is Denzel Washington's character?

Trailers for this movie have Denzel pegged as the star character as even ifs promotional posters have just Denzel on it. Whitty knows that the audience will be keyed on his performance as "Whip Whitaker." Each sentence about him is short, concrete, and gets straight to the point with accurate details. Even when Whitty gets into the scenery, theme, and plot of the movie, he shows how Whip reacts to these subjects of interest. Whitty chooses other movies as clarification through character studies on similarities amongst them.

 The best thing I like about the review is that he gives the right kind of revelations while emphasizing the complexity of Whip's psyche as we delve deeper in the movie. The theme he chooses compliments this whole kind of psychological take on the movie. It works because it isn't just praise, it gets the reader into knowing what kind of film they can expect to see. 

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