World Trade Center

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Oliver Stone pulled it off.

I was originally pretty pissed when I heard there was going to be a movie about the World Trade Center, but it was inevitable. This is America. Thank god it wasn't directed by Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich. There were people openly sobbing in the theatre. I read all the reviews, and went in with low-ish expectations. I was surprised. Stone toe'd the line between drama and sensationalism, between truth and fantasy. He didn't politicize the event. It was more about the effect and externalities of the actual event, not the event itself. After I saw Fahrenheit 911, I told everyone within earshot to go see it. Same with this one.

That is all.

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I heard it was nothing more than a movie, that he didn't do anything that hasn't been done before.

Not sure I'll make it to the theatre for this one.

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I heard it was nothing more than a movie, that he didn't do anything that hasn't been done before.

Not sure I'll make it to the theatre for this one.

Had to resurrect this... Not true, my friend, not true. I agree w/ skydivexxl on this. I saw it in Ft. Wayne this week while on business, mostly b/c there was nothing else worthy of my 10 bucks. I was skeptically optimistic that Stone WASN'T going to pull the same political shit he's done in so many of his other movies.

But the original poster is write... He DID indeed pull it off in this flick. It's not over the top. The music is not overly dramatic, most of the time it's simple piano or cello or the like. No political agenda that I could see. No revisionism going on. Just the story of tragedy and heroes. It was beautifully done. I was a little worried of it just rehashing the events of the actual day... it wasn't that. It was really like a family diary of two Port Authority Police officers who were trapped, played very well by N Cage and M Pena (from Crash).

The theatre was not very full, and those who were in it, like myself, were openly crying. It was very, very moving. At the end, it was all I could do to sit there and watch the credits and cry.

I didn't want to see it initially, but I'm glad I did. In my mind, old Oli has redeemed himself.

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