QoTD: Will You See United 93 ?
OK, so read the review first. Then continue reading this post.
...Short pause to read review...
Good. So let's start with the basics. Paul Greengrass is a very talented director. Bloody Sunday is possibly one of the better movies I've seen, and I thoroughly enjoyed The Bourne Supremacy. And no, I categorically do not think it is too soon for a movie about September 11. But I am not going to see this movie. Part of it is because this is still a really difficult subject for me to talk about, and the other part was kind of nebulous -- like a knee jerk "No Way".
This review made me think though. What is the point of this movie? It's all but completely devoid of any historical conext, background, motivation, message. It's sheer terror for terror's sake. I have thought many times, long and painfully, about what it must have been like to be aboard one of those four planes. Do I really want to see those thoughts played in in lush Technicolor? Not really. Is seeing a re-enactment going to make those thoughts any easier to bear? Certainly not -- perhaps even worse.
So no, I'm not going to see United 93, though I hold no ill will toward it -- I hope it does well. I am holding out for mighty Oliver's World Trade Center, which given his past will hopefully be a bit more in-depth. However, I do admit that it will be quite difficult to make a movie about this subject that has some sort of message without being bashed as partisan garbage. C'est la vie, I guess -- welcome to America, 2006.
Hey, I ain't never comin' home/
Hey, I'll just wander my own road/
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow, no/
Say Goodbye...Don't follow
...Short pause to read review...
Good. So let's start with the basics. Paul Greengrass is a very talented director. Bloody Sunday is possibly one of the better movies I've seen, and I thoroughly enjoyed The Bourne Supremacy. And no, I categorically do not think it is too soon for a movie about September 11. But I am not going to see this movie. Part of it is because this is still a really difficult subject for me to talk about, and the other part was kind of nebulous -- like a knee jerk "No Way".
This review made me think though. What is the point of this movie? It's all but completely devoid of any historical conext, background, motivation, message. It's sheer terror for terror's sake. I have thought many times, long and painfully, about what it must have been like to be aboard one of those four planes. Do I really want to see those thoughts played in in lush Technicolor? Not really. Is seeing a re-enactment going to make those thoughts any easier to bear? Certainly not -- perhaps even worse.
So no, I'm not going to see United 93, though I hold no ill will toward it -- I hope it does well. I am holding out for mighty Oliver's World Trade Center, which given his past will hopefully be a bit more in-depth. However, I do admit that it will be quite difficult to make a movie about this subject that has some sort of message without being bashed as partisan garbage. C'est la vie, I guess -- welcome to America, 2006.
Hey, I ain't never comin' home/
Hey, I'll just wander my own road/
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow, no/
Say Goodbye...Don't follow