The silence that occured in your theater and in mine speaks volumes.
The fact that some of you here find it impossible for a regular American to find the film emotionally powerful speaks loudly about the partisan division in this country. To think that some of you believe that some of your neighbors (because I guarantee you that there were Republicans and Democrats in every showing) would actually stand up and applaud the hijackers is sobering and more importantly.. heartbreaking.
I know some of you are jaded because of liberal bias in the media, but is it really too much to believe that a liberal European filmmaker made a startingly honest and gripping film about an American tragedy? I do not know how I would have acted if I was in such a situation. I know that many of you would rush to the aid of the passengers and their cause, but not all passengers on the flight joined. Some of them sat out. Are they to be critcized? Absolutely not. Why? We are all humans. I think this film has allowed us to realize our commond bonds as Americans and as human beings.