Richer and stranger than Weir's previous Hollywood work, this takes as
its starting point the psychological ramifications of miraculous
survival. Bridges and Perez, emerging with their lives from a plane
crash, form a bond: he has lost all sense of his own mortality, and she
can't remove the stain of her dead baby's blood from her hands. Weir
turns it into a rigorous but subtle investigation of actual human
frailty, to which Bridges' fearlessness represents a philosophical
counterpoint.
