I JUST DON'T GET THIS "TOO SOON" THING.
As a New Yorker, part of the 'too soon' thing is that in some ways, it doesn't feel like it's totally over. I still occasionally have conversations with people wondering whether New York could get hit again. I can see the Empire State Building, and the thought of what it might be like for that to be attacked crosses my mind regularly.
I hope that doesn't sound paranoid, and of course I don't speak for all New Yorkers. It's hard to describe, but maybe in a way, the movie is for the rest of the country. From what I've read it doesn't include any visuals of the WTC attacks, they're mentioned in the context of the hijacking and apparently motivated the passengers to try and organize a response.
There is an interesting cover story on this week's NY Press (
www.nypress.com. It takes a more questioning, critical tone of the movie and this is one of the quotes that really stood out for me: "this film, which is dedicated to the memory of all who died, is ironically designed to make you erase everything but the 100 most emotionally intense minutes of 9/11."
Because the movie is based partly on the limited amount of recordings and accounts available, it's hard to say how much of it is 'docu' and how much is 'drama'. But probably many people will leave the movie with the impression that it's exactly what happened. I'm not sure why that bothers me so much, but something about that does. Eh, my thoughts aren't very organized right now. Yeesh.
Juan