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OT: United 93 -- WILL YOU BE SEEING IT?
starboardlight:
I haven't tried to look up any reviews. All I've seen are a couple of tv ads. Maybe it's the failing of the marketing, but it's not telling me what I'd get from the film other than reliving what the people went through. I want it be more than just a dramatized version of what happened. I want it to give me a better understanding or something. I don't want to relive their terror for the sake of reliving their terror. Is there a catharsis that come from going through that terror? That's what I'm not getting from the marketing of the film. If it's going to touch on such a horrific event in our lives, it better be transcendent. Otherwise, I'd just feel like people are exploiting the tragedy for the not much more than money.
luigival:
My personal opinion is that we're still too near in time to the real events, so this could deter a large number of viewers.
As far as I am concerned, though I am still shocked by those tragic events, I will try to see it as soon as it arrives here in Italy to honour those who lost their lives in that mournful day.
dmmb_Mandy:
BTW, did anyone watch CNN last night? Larry King had people on talking about the movie. Some of the actors from the films were there, as well as family members of some of the people who were on the flight. They called the program "United 93: Too Soon?" About half of the guests loved the film and didn't think it was too soon, and the others thought it was too soon.
rtprod:
I JUST DON'T GET THIS "TOO SOON" THING.
Too soon for what? It's a great film, guys, and a critical event in American history, and if it's "too soon" for a movie to be made about it, then isn't it also "too soon" for the scores of books that have been written about in the last five years? Is it also "too soon" for The Falling Man, the short doc about the Windows on the World employee who was photographed, tragically and famously, falling from the WTC? These are stories that have shaped us, and I'd rather look at them eyes open and see where I've been.
rt
rtprod:
--- Quote ---If it's going to touch on such a horrific event in our lives, it better be transcendent. Otherwise, I'd just feel like people are exploiting the tragedy for the not much more than money.
--- End quote ---
It is a work of art and a valuable record without an ounce of sensationalism. Anyone who knows Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday knows that he is as far away from a commercial profit-meister as a director could be in handling a real-life incident as in that film and this one.
Money, no. This is not a commercial film as we know them, it has not an ounce of manipulation and exists to document as well as enshrine those on that plane.
rt
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