Apollo 13

The Film, Apollo 13, presents many different arguments. The movie is set in the 1960’s and is about Apollo 13’s Mission to land on the moon. The Commander of the mission, Jim Lowell, was selected by fate six months prior to launch because the original Commander had a serious infection in his ear. Fred Haise and Ken Mattingly were the other two selected. They would under go hours and hours of vigorous simulation and training. Only …

…can at first seem bad or wrong can actually be good. The director of Apollo 13 brings out different arguments. The director seemed to stress that people are intrigued by tragedy and that they don’t like the same thing because it is “routine”. He also pointed out that when technology fails, we will have to rely on what we have. Also some things may go wrong so due to fate, other things would go right..