The First Time I Watched The Movie “Flight” It Was Strictly

The first time I watched the movie â€Å"Flight† it was strictly for entertainment value. Denzel Washington is notorious for playing a great bad guy and based on the promotional videos, he would be hailed as a hero with a not so shiny record to negate these perceptions. When the movie opens, to see his character Whip doing a line of cocaine as soon as he woke up told me a lot about where he stood regarding substance abuse and its impact on his life. The idea of waking up and immediately doing a line would suggest for me that the substance had become a part of his daily routine and was a normal for him instead of just an outlet to escape those day to day troubles when needed. For the first portion of the film, we don’t see the depth of his†¦show more content†¦Standing alone Whip is perceived one way, but when you think about his behavior in comparison with someone in the same situation with lesser circumstances, at the heart of it is an addict ineffectively cop ing with a host of internal struggles. The focus is off his important job or her pending homelessness, to the root of the issue which is that they both are having trouble coping with the things going on in their life. Down the line, I reflect on this series of scenes and how that plays out for their approach to life following the plane accident and her overdose. It is interesting to thing about the way they behave after. She has basically nothing but she is trying to stay away from drugs, whereas he has so much to lose and doesn’t stop abusing. I pondered what besides the most obvious differences would take them in such opposite directions given the gravity of their situations. 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