Just saw United 93
Sep. 9th, 2006 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahJesus fucking christ.
No, really. Jesus fucking christ.
If anyone can sit through that movie and be unaffected, there is something seriously wrong with them.
I thought it'd be not too far away from yer usual Hollywood treatment - following the Heroes through their last hours, noble speeches, cloying sentimentality, heavy-handed politics, yadda yadda. There was none of that. None at all. No speeches, no heroes, no cheesy dramatics. In short, restraint. Not that the subject matter wasn't shocking in itself.
For me, it was after lunch at work when we learned what was going on. One of the guys in the next office was looking at the Beeb website and saw the news come in. We promptly fired up CNN (which was amazingly quick - one advantage of working at a university on the London MAN), just in time to see the next plane hit the other tower.
If you saw it live, you know exactly what you felt then - this movie's impact is an order of magnitude higher.
And it's a good time of year to go see it, if it's still on where you are.
No, really. Jesus fucking christ.
If anyone can sit through that movie and be unaffected, there is something seriously wrong with them.
I thought it'd be not too far away from yer usual Hollywood treatment - following the Heroes through their last hours, noble speeches, cloying sentimentality, heavy-handed politics, yadda yadda. There was none of that. None at all. No speeches, no heroes, no cheesy dramatics. In short, restraint. Not that the subject matter wasn't shocking in itself.
For me, it was after lunch at work when we learned what was going on. One of the guys in the next office was looking at the Beeb website and saw the news come in. We promptly fired up CNN (which was amazingly quick - one advantage of working at a university on the London MAN), just in time to see the next plane hit the other tower.
If you saw it live, you know exactly what you felt then - this movie's impact is an order of magnitude higher.
And it's a good time of year to go see it, if it's still on where you are.