Moviegoers: ‘United 93’ powerful, ‘emotionally draining’
Steve: Okay, if you choose to skip 'Atlas Shrugged,' at least check this one out... and 'Mission: Impossible III' — I've heard from some very reliable sources that it's going to be killer.
From Erika Nordblom in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
From Erika Nordblom in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
No one spoke as they left the theater.
Moviegoers were visibly shaken after seeing the premiere of the controversial 9/11 movie “United 93,” which opened Friday in local theaters.
The film by Paul Green is shot in a semi-documentary style and re-creates the events that occurred Sept. 11, 2001, before United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pa. The flight was the only one of four hijacked planes that did not reach its intended target, thanks to passengers who fought the terrorists and prevented the plane from reaching the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.
The movie premiered nationally Tuesday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The families of Flight 93 passengers who saw the film voiced support for the movie, but it has yet to be seen if Americans are ready to relive the events of 9/11. The weekend box office numbers will reveal that.
posted by Strother | 12:31 AM
1 Comments:
Sounds like one of the few recent flicks worth seeing. The details are uncertain, but it does seem clear enough that this is the closest our national community came to thwarting the aims of the attack teams that day.
Our $300 billion per year official "security apparatus" spent the day mostly trying to lift its pants from around its ankles (the quick decision and implementation of the air system shutdown was a notable exception that COULD have made a difference), while the attackers, other than the team on Flight 93, came through far better than their handlers' most optimistic expectations (or so Osama bin Laden's tape show suggested some months later - - -a public admission of, in fact bragging about, his involvement that some seem unable to acknowledge to this day).
It would be entirely fitting (contrary to the outraged bloviations of the anonymous statist ideologue at the Winston-Salem Journal editorial page) if a totally PRIVATE memorial were set up and PRIVATELY funded to help fellow citizens remember these PRIVATE citizens who performed so well under "impossible" circumstances. Why give the bloated federals yet another pretext to spend tax money forever? They already have too many excuses for that, and we can see how well they have performed.
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