CINEMA: HELL OF A RIDE

WITH TOM HANKS AS THE PILOT, APOLLO 13 IS A STIRRING TRIBUTE TO THE HEROES WHO FLY HIGH IN THE FACE OF FAILURE

The typical adventure movie is a big, gaudy lie. It says life is a battle of one man, armed with only wit and grit, against a hostile universe. This romantic, existential notion does a disservice to the way most people live and work. We aren't solo flyers or secret agents. We are a squadron of team players dependent on our colleagues and increasingly on our machines to get us through our jobs. Often, because of those machines or those colleagues--or ourselves--we fail. And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is react quickly, boldly, gracefully to the failures and compromises we...

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