Fans of an Academy-Award nominated film have noticed some very eerie similarities between the plot of the movie and the real-life disaster of Germanwings Flight 4U9525 in the French Alps this week.
The acclaimed 2014 film Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) was directed by Argentine Damián Szifron and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar at this year's ceremony. Revered Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodóvar served as an executive producer on the film. In the film, told during a series of vignettes, a mentally disturbed man tricks a group of his enemies to board an airplane which he intends to deliberately crash into his parent's home in an act of final revenge.
In the movie's opening scene/ prologue, the passengers realize they have been tricked by a man they all know named Gabriel Pasternak and that they are going to die in a fiery plane crash at the hands of a vindictive madman. The passengers panic at the knowledge of their impending fate and several rush the cockpit door, in a desperate bid to gain access and stop the plane from crashing. The plane is seen careening toward the home of Pasternak's parents, who can only watch in horror at the approaching disaster.
The scenes are eerily similar to information coming out of the investigation of the crash in the French Alps. Audio recordings from the plane's recovered black box suggest that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately began to descend the craft until it crashed into the side of a mountain at an incredibly high rate of speed, killing all 150 people on board. The captain can be heard desperately trying to break down the locked cockpit door, and passengers can be heard screaming at the end of the recording upon realizing what was taking place. Lubitz can be heard breathing normally from the cockpit during the recording, but no words are spoken by him. The plane was on a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, when it crashed in a remote region of the French Alps, 150 kilometers north of the resort city of Nice.
The film was released in Lubitz's native Germany last autumn, and was scheduled for release in UK theaters this week. Medical reports have been revealed that Lubitz was suffering from mental illness and depression. Notes from doctors found in his home by investigators after his death stated that the physicians believed Lubitz too ill to work as a pilot, but these notes had not been released to his employers at Germanwings Airlines.
It is not known if Lubitz had seen the film Relatos Salvajes before the tragedy.
The acclaimed 2014 film Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) was directed by Argentine Damián Szifron and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar at this year's ceremony. Revered Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodóvar served as an executive producer on the film. In the film, told during a series of vignettes, a mentally disturbed man tricks a group of his enemies to board an airplane which he intends to deliberately crash into his parent's home in an act of final revenge.
In the movie's opening scene/ prologue, the passengers realize they have been tricked by a man they all know named Gabriel Pasternak and that they are going to die in a fiery plane crash at the hands of a vindictive madman. The passengers panic at the knowledge of their impending fate and several rush the cockpit door, in a desperate bid to gain access and stop the plane from crashing. The plane is seen careening toward the home of Pasternak's parents, who can only watch in horror at the approaching disaster.
The scenes are eerily similar to information coming out of the investigation of the crash in the French Alps. Audio recordings from the plane's recovered black box suggest that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately began to descend the craft until it crashed into the side of a mountain at an incredibly high rate of speed, killing all 150 people on board. The captain can be heard desperately trying to break down the locked cockpit door, and passengers can be heard screaming at the end of the recording upon realizing what was taking place. Lubitz can be heard breathing normally from the cockpit during the recording, but no words are spoken by him. The plane was on a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, when it crashed in a remote region of the French Alps, 150 kilometers north of the resort city of Nice.
The film was released in Lubitz's native Germany last autumn, and was scheduled for release in UK theaters this week. Medical reports have been revealed that Lubitz was suffering from mental illness and depression. Notes from doctors found in his home by investigators after his death stated that the physicians believed Lubitz too ill to work as a pilot, but these notes had not been released to his employers at Germanwings Airlines.
It is not known if Lubitz had seen the film Relatos Salvajes before the tragedy.