Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival: In the recent Netflix series IC 814: THe Kandahar Hijack, the Indian authorities were in confrontation with terrorists who have hijacked a passenger plane and flew it to a foreign country for over one week. The rescue operation lasted for several days during which the entire viewers were glued to their television sets. However, this was not the case in 1970 when the Apollo 13 space craft faced hitches in its technicalities while on the way to the moon because of time, not foreign hostiles.
The duration taken by the Apollo 13 in which it was rescued was also a week just like the hijack. The American population repeated the same history of fusing their diversities in times of trouble, in this case for three astronauts – Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert who were total strangers to them. This ordeal was, for the first time, captured on tape and has now been published in the documentary film Apollo 13: Survival, in Netflix.
The film, which is rigorously structured, set in motion and edited into tonnes of unseen archival footage, brings new understanding in the event that was made popular by Ron Howard and his movie Apollo 13 in which Tom Hanks played Lovell. The film is one of the 1990’s classics, Apollo 13’s Lovell is played by actor Tom Hanks. He has been characterized as an easygoing guy, in contrast, for example to Neil Armstrong in First Man but the commander already had substantial performing experience having previously been involved in the Apollo 8 mission.
Extremely positive, this attribute would come in handy in future, he laughed when people around him inquired if he was some kind of a superstitionist with regard to the number 13. In contrast die Haise joked that he would not have had a problem with commencing the launch on Friday the 13th.
Despite the fact that several manned missions to the moon had been carried out with great success, the general public who had in a way come to be comfortable with space exploration began to doubt the necessity of taking the moon missions. Even Lovell had to explain to the media why NASA was still wasting tens of millions of dollars sending men to the moon, long after America and the Russians had settled the issue on who was first to land on the moon with Apollo 11.
The narrative leads the viewer towards launch in a linear motion adding the relevant details about not only Lovell, but also about his family- a fact that is essential for some last-minute dramatic turns during the third act. We also get acquainted with command module pilot Ken Mattingly, who gets infected by sickness and is forced to abort the mission at the last moment.
Lovell decided to move ahead with Swigert as the substitute, though this came with a heavy cost in monetary terms; he had the option to postpone the mission. It is evident that even very rational minded astronauts must have thought about the logic behind fate putting this twist just at the very end. Of course, the film raises views like these, since it is packed with Lovell’s comments on how he has changed due to his thoughts after seeing everything about space.
“Why can’t we all get along, and try to share the planet?” he asks, while looking down at the indistinguishable boundaries from the sky, and noticing how fast the countries that are at war with one another are passing by from the view. The film makes a mix of the numerous footage shot by Lovell, Haise and Swigert including the infamous footage of the damaged service module which they were stuck to for almost three days following the explosion.
The last segment of the film Apollo 13: Survival is about bringing the astronauts home. First of all, there are very interesting records when the action is transmitted to the Spiderhead control center and you can quite naturally hear the words ‘Houston, we have a problem,’ but in fact, the depiction of the events is assisted by wonderful villains: the mission director Gene Kranz and his crew, who throughout the tumultuous times appeared to have been smoking a lot and drinking gallons of coffee.
There is still creativity among the Sea of three male American directors dressed in white shirts with short sleeves. Afterward, Lovell’s wife is introduced to rescue the situation which makes for a nice diversion.
Alex says that she presents voiceover commentary herself, although no new footage or interviews were shot for the film. These were detailed by old photographs of her sitting in the living room of their house with relatives around, and next to the voice of the “squawk box” — a device which used to transmit out the spacecraft’s communication to mission control straight to her.
The more time goes on the more tired her physical looks get. There is an emphatic quality in these segments that fills the void of sheer entertainment – which is how most of the action sequences in the film play out – because the vast majority of the audience is already aware as to how the story is going to unfold. Apollo 13: Survival does not set the stage, rather it adds to this depiction of brutal determination and humanity’s relentless resolve.
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- Genre: Documentary, History
- Country: United Kingdom, United States
- Director: 1h 38m
- Cast: Neil Armstrong, Jules Bergman, James Burke