Downfall The Case Against Boeing Review - Bland but Infuriating
On october 29, 2018, when lion Air Flight 610 collapsed into the Java sea 13 minutes after takeoff off from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international Airport, most people assumed the reason of the catastrophe was unrelated to the jet. Yes, it was a beautiful day with no signs of terrorism, but a brand-new Boeing 737 MAX wasn't going to fall out of the sky. Surely, the low-cost Indonesian airline and/or the foreigner pilot it had recruited to operate the plane that day, whose perfect record and U.S. training were immediately disguised under his brown skin and indian identity, would bear the brunt of the blame for such a disaster.
Most people were only able to get past their prejudices when Ethiopian airlines Flight 302 crashed into the Earth the following March, revealing what Boeing had been trying to hide for months: Boeing had developed a death trap that would keep pulling its clients out of the sky in its drive to develop a cost-effective warhorse that would raise the shareholders ’ value out of the depths.
"Downfall: The Case Against Boeing," directed by Rory Kennedy, is a documentary that resides at the confluence of the spectacular and the mundane, as it sheds a harsh light on one of our time's greatest crimes with all the panache of a "Dateline" special. The outcome is a video that will shatter what little confidence you have in our corporate overlords and outrage you at the lack of responsibility that continues to promote their greed over our wellbeing.
Most people were only able to get past their prejudices when Ethiopian airlines Flight 302 crashed into the Earth the following March, revealing what Boeing had been trying to hide for months: Boeing had developed a death trap that would keep pulling its clients out of the sky in its drive to develop a cost-effective warhorse that would raise the shareholders ’ value out of the depths.
"Downfall: The Case Against Boeing," directed by Rory Kennedy, is a documentary that resides at the confluence of the spectacular and the mundane, as it sheds a harsh light on one of our time's greatest crimes with all the panache of a "Dateline" special. The outcome is a video that will shatter what little confidence you have in our corporate overlords and outrage you at the lack of responsibility that continues to promote their greed over our wellbeing.