The Choice of the ‘Culpable’ Mind: Examining of “Sully” Movie

Abstract

The research examines the interaction between artificial intelligence and humans through rationality and inculpability attributed to technology and sentimentality and culpability tendencies attributed to humans. This examination is carried out through the analysis of the movie “Sully,” whose story is based on a real event. The aircraft operating on US Airways flight 1549, piloted by Chesley Sullenberger, had to land on the Hudson River soon after taking off for the New York-Charlotte flight on January 15, 2009. This event is also the subject of the book “Highest Duty,” which was written as an autobiographical work by the pilot Sullenberger and the American writer Jeffrey Zaslow, and was turned into a movie, “Sully” adapted from the same autobiography, in 2016. The movie is analyzed using the document analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods. The themes that emerge as a result of the analysis depict the struggle of intuitions and the culpable human mind against the authorities that defend the rational mind and its inculpability.