Fearless (1993)

IMDb plot summary: A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, and Rosie Perez.

Fearless stars Jeff Bridges as a man who survives a devastating plane crash, only to have a great deal of difficulty settling back into every day life afterward. While he claims to be fine and turns down offers of therapeutic assistance, his actions become more and more distanced from his family as he tries to identify how that near-death experience has changed him. It was interesting watching this film directly after Hero, another movie about a deadly plane crash and a man becoming an unexpected hero because of it. But this movie takes a very different angle, focusing on the many different ways grief, loss, and PTSD can show up in different people, and how difficult that can be for folks on the outside to comprehend. It's a slow-moving story that is grounded in some very good acting performances, particularly Bridges, who is so incredibly difficult to read in his state of lingering shock. It's a complex performance that I find very compelling, and the film is worth watching for that alone.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Fearless > Love Exposure

Fearless < Kuroneko

Fearless < The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Fearless > The Sword in the Stone

Fearless > Death at a Funeral (2007)

Fearless < Timecop

Fearless < Raising Cain

Fearless > Death to Smoochy

Fearless > American Outlaws

Fearless < Phone Booth

Fearless < Kill Bill Vol. 1

Fearless > Three Thousand Years of Longing

Final spot: #1576 out of 3942, or 60%.