I saw this movie today and um...it sorta speaks for itself. I don't feel there's much for me to add. Because it's such a complete telling of the story any commentary I have will be about what wasn't shown, which wasn't much, than what was.
It's an unhappy ending. Everybody dies. So there's that. But this isn't suppose to be entertainment. It's true and because of that it's important. It's more important than anything else. This will be the definitive story of United 93. I don't think anyone will be inclined to say it needs to be made again. If Oliver Stone's movie about the World Trade Center is as good as this one, then the future will have a significant foothold on what was felt that day. That was the goal of this movie and it succeeded admirably in that respect. I never felt that any part of it was fake or gratuitous. This is the type of movie that needs to be made about this subject.
Where was our president? Throughout the movie the people are waiting for him to take charge. They need his call to open rules of engagement, but he's not there. Where was he? After seeing this movie, disliking him in general, and Hurricane Katrina I'm about to consider our President as one of the worst presidents we have in attending to national emergencies. Remember all those conventional disaster movies when the fictional President is talking to people, making decisions, present in the discourse. This movie isn't like that. George Bush isn't even present, noone knows where he is. If our president had done anything during this crisis he would have been in this film. He didn't and he isn't. Thank God we have competent people elsewhere.
No comments:
Post a Comment