Carrier
by Maro Chermayeff
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Actor: .Director: Maro Chermayeff
Brand: PBS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
Movie Reviews of Carrier
Movie Review: Magnificient portrait of a working carrier
Summary: 5 Stars
"Count your blessings as Americans" says the Admiral as he addresses the 5,000+ crew members of the USS Nimitz as it approaches home after six months at sea and in a combat theatre.
After watching these ten hours, I consider every member of the Nimitz crew one of my blessings as an American.
At first I was disappointed. I was expecting and hoping for a detailed viewing of the ship itself, its airplanes and all the gizmos that make the marvel of technology work. Instead the ten hours focused on the people, the crew from the guy who mopped the floors to the men and women flying aircraft into combat zones, the deck crew, the cooks, the hundreds of occupations it takes to make this colossus function.
Above all, I am surprised that this was on PBS: it wasn't anti-war, anti-American, didn't celebrate left-wing dictators. It was a paean to the United States of America in it is wonderful.
Little time (unfortunately in a way) is spent on the ship and its operations. Most of the time is spent in interviews and voiceovers with the crew. It is stunning that so many of the crew are so young. Teenagers or barely out of their teens. Many tell the stories of their short lives, stories they freely admit could have turned out horribly. Kids moving down the wrong paths in life - and entering the Navy helped them straighten out their lives.
There are personal stories of how some of these people go off on a months long deployment, leaving families and loved ones behind with sometimes hurtful circumstances. How do you react when your wife miscarries while you are thousands of miles away in the Arabian Gulf? Your pregnant girlfriend doesn't communicate with you. Your divorced spouse is fighting with you over the custody of the kids and won't send you photographs of your youngest child's first day at school.
And yet these people serve. They do their jobs for their nation and for their families: their real families and their Navy family.
There are so many stories in "Carrier", not a one of which ultimately comes up empty or trite. The directors and editors have done their job extremely well. The story that ultimately comes across is not of the ship itself, but of these heroes - yes, they are heroes - who serve their country.
As the Admiral says "Count your blessings as Americans". The more than 5,000 crew members profiled in "Carrier" are indeed blessings to the United States of America. This is a wonderful production.
Jerry
Summary of Carrier
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