We are vigorously discussing the Plane Crash scene here because it is wildly successful cinema. This ain't just a CG plane crash.
People on these boards are questioning the validity of John's response to the crash. For me his response to the man painfully dying in a ball of flame was real. I've had to consider what my response would have been had I been standing there next to the traffic cop. I'm certain I would have run the other way and not gone near the plane.
John's "Hey Hey" was a response of hopelessness to an awful inevitability and therein lies the brilliance of Alex Proyas. His intent in that scene was to make us ask this question : what would I do? And that question will only arise if we care about John and are attuned to his dilemma.
By playing the scene in real time, tracking behind John, becoming his POV and tracking again without a cut (and this was no indulgent ejeculation of a 1000 foot load that was Scene 1 of The Player) it refuses to let us objectively observe. Proyas has emotionally injected us into his scene as players and isn't this what great cinema is all about?.

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