Posted on 08/15/2006 7:27:29 PM PDT by stratman1969
Director Oliver Stone has done something I thought was impossible. He made a great movie about September 11, 2001 and managed to stay off the "Grassy Knoll" in the process.
I, along with my wife and father-in-law (visiting from the East Coast) went to see World Trade Center this past Saturday night. If you need a reminder of why we are at war today, I recommend (as I did with United 93, coming out on DVD in about three weeks) seeing this movie. True, it is not an all encompassing tale of what happened that day, yet you get the graphic reminders.
One of which was footage of one WTC victim falling to their death, which has been banned from replay on TV networks to help us forget. As the Port Authority officers are in the building you hear loud sounds hitting the ground and lower roofs, no doubt the sound of falling bodies as well as debris. You also imagine the horror of what it was like to be in one of the towers as it fell. Finally, at the end of the movie, one of the Marines who helped in the rescue is seen talking on a cell phone. He tells the person on the other end that he's going away, because someone "needs to avenge this."
Conversely, though not in the movie, we saw reminders of the problem, being the typical narcissism and divisiveness of Marin County liberals both in and outside the theatre.
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The Marine and the inspiration that sent him to the pile to find those officers, and his attitude about America and freedom and the need to fight back ring out loudly and clearly in the film.
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Thanks for the heads up, good review.
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