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  • Reviewer Thinks Hijackers Should Have "Consulted" on UNITED 93

    04/25/2006 4:47:26 PM PDT · by John Robertson · 26 replies · 986+ views
    Slant Magazine ^ | April, 2006 | Keith Uhlich
    "Certainly this isn't the first Hollywood production done in by the competing corporate and personal interests that funded it (consider the unspoken implications—both commercial and propagandistic—of the film's last-minute title change from Flight 93 to United 93), but it is the only one I've come across where the families of those onboard gave it their full-on approval. Not all the families, of course. All evidence suggests that the terrorists' relatives were left entirely out of the creative process, an action which goes a way toward revealing the film's hagiographic bias (how easy it then becomes to turn victims into heroes...