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...missile theory has been largely discredited. Several spectators said they saw a red streak approach the plane before it burst into flames, sparking concern that something like a Katyusha rocket had been fired at the jet. Investigators have shown, however, that an explosion from a bomb could produce the optical illusion of such an attack as gas poured out of the pressurized cabin...
Because of the story's appeal to gut reasoning, it lends itself well to basic visual motifs, which Schumacher seems to realize. Doors burst open at every turn, Jackson's Car Lee finds himself behind screens or bars before any shooting has happened, and light--red, white, blue--bathes people over the course of the movie. Events in the film's parallel tracks (those related to defense, and those to the prosecution) often occur in discrete chunks, placed side by side for quick, crude comparison. Here come the Klan members; there go Carl Lee's supporters. Or as the movie...
...official nodded yes, creating yet another mourner for the 230 people who died off Long Island last week. What killed them? A mechanical malfunction? A technical failure had once sent another hardy Boeing 747 crashing into a Japanese mountain, killing more than 500 people. But this 747 had burst into flames 13,700 ft. in the air. What accident could have caused such a swift and merciless catastrophe...
...were, grazing in the shadows as the sun began sinking into Long Island's Great South Bay behind them. The Atlantic, meanwhile, was turning violet in the gathering dusk, the lights of fishing boats just beginning to blink. Then, as the Hesters gazed at the small wonder, two fireballs burst out of the sky to the southeast. The deer scattered...
...eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City of Light and ended, after a few minutes, in a burst, and then the profoundest blackness. An arc of time interrupted by eternity...