The Hudson hero

I recently saw Sully, a fantastic movie about an extraordinary act of bravery and heroism. Tom Hanks portays the titular character Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger with an incredible realism and depth. Sully saves 155 souls by landing a plane on the Hudson river, but the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) believes he could have returned to the airport. Everybody labels Sully a hero for saving everybody on board but Sully keeps thinking that this could have ended a whole lot different for everybody.

There is an important message that people should take from the movie and that is that the movie is not only about Sully it´s about everybody that was on board that plane. Like Sully says in the movie, it wasn’t just him it was all of them. Sully may have been the one flying the plane but everybody went through the same ordeal, they were all aboard, they were all the Hudson and they were all rescued.

Even though Sully is labelled the hero, he´s not the only one. Everybody who came to rescue the people from the Hudson are also heroes. If they hadn´t responded like they did, some of the people may have died from the extreme cold.