I can see how it would be very interesting. I guess I just need some historical or emotional distance to be able to really watch it. It just feels like something you could read in a newspaper article rather than watch a movie about it. Kinda like when that Korean boy shot up that school, there was an article about this one professor who got killed by putting himself in the shooters way to protect others. Just reading about it made me cry, so I feel I don't need a movie for it. There are other ways for me to know and be touched by it.
It's different when people made gory movies about Vietnam or showed those holocaust documentaries to the Germans right after the war because there you had a real case of people not knowing what was going on or being in denial about it. And they had to see it to believe it or to be taught about what was going on.
Or 50 years in the future most people might have forgotten about the details and they might have to be reminded of it, of what went on and how they felt about it.
I do fully believe that United 93 is a good movie and full of the right intent. I'm just not sure whether it will have the correct effect on people when it comes out now, because the real time effect is still so much *there* around us all. We are still affected by it and there is no doubt on the impact it had and still has on all our lives.
Though maybe that is what makes those movies harder to watch. Maybe it makes you feel even more helpless. If it is at least a movie to educate you can come out horrified but feeling like you are doing your part to ensure that word gets around (like Hotel Ruanda for example). Or if it is a movie about the past you can walk out feeling that you are doing your part in the rememberance process. But here you can't really be more outraged and saddened than you already are and you can't see it as inspiration to make sure others are informed and therefore outraged and saddened because they already are too. You aren't doing your part in remembering either because everybody still remembers. It's a weird situation I guess.
It's different when people made gory movies about Vietnam or showed those holocaust documentaries to the Germans right after the war because there you had a real case of people not knowing what was going on or being in denial about it. And they had to see it to believe it or to be taught about what was going on.
Or 50 years in the future most people might have forgotten about the details and they might have to be reminded of it, of what went on and how they felt about it.
I do fully believe that United 93 is a good movie and full of the right intent. I'm just not sure whether it will have the correct effect on people when it comes out now, because the real time effect is still so much *there* around us all. We are still affected by it and there is no doubt on the impact it had and still has on all our lives.
Though maybe that is what makes those movies harder to watch. Maybe it makes you feel even more helpless. If it is at least a movie to educate you can come out horrified but feeling like you are doing your part to ensure that word gets around (like Hotel Ruanda for example). Or if it is a movie about the past you can walk out feeling that you are doing your part in the rememberance process. But here you can't really be more outraged and saddened than you already are and you can't see it as inspiration to make sure others are informed and therefore outraged and saddened because they already are too. You aren't doing your part in remembering either because everybody still remembers. It's a weird situation I guess.
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