I am certain United Flight 93 is a fine film with excellent performances, but I won't be seeing it anytime soon.
Maybe I'm too soft, but I just can't bear to watch it.
Posted by Christopher at April 29, 2006 11:33 AMI'm with Chris. I was bawling over last night's Doctor Who episode, for crissakes. I just couldn't take this now, especially with the political tug of war going on about something that we should all be one with. Sure, real events have always ended up as movies, but this one is too real, and the pain is still going on. I don't want to see it at all.
Posted by iamcoyote at April 29, 2006 11:44 AMCount me out with Chris and the Coyote, I get too angry that leads weren't followed up on to prevent the whole mess, and the fact that no pink slips were handed out in the pathetic aftermath.
How can you call yourself a Superpower, when the perps are still perpulating?
Posted by TIKI AL at April 29, 2006 12:53 PMMovies? What are these movie things?
(Parent of a 20 month-old)
That said, with little information about what did actually happened on the airplane once it was in the air, I refuse to fork over good money for entertainment that seductively tries to make us forget that.
Posted by idiosynchronic at April 29, 2006 01:17 PMThe publicity that I've seen about the movie suggests that the directors, et al, kept the families of the victims very much at the forefront of the production, neither ignoring their feelings nor exploiting the tragedy for the box-office's sake.
Though I remain uncertain about the facts surrounding this event, I am curious to see how it was treated in the context of a box-office production and therefore I will go see it.
"The publicity that I've seen about the movie suggests that the directors, et al, kept the families of the victims very much at the forefront of the production, neither ignoring their feelings nor exploiting the tragedy for the box-office's sake."
Today on NPR, a writer told about his experience of seeing this movie in a private showing. In the audience were the families of those who died. While he had praise for the movie, as did a family member, he did not recommend the movie simply because it is an exhausting movie, terrifying, and too real. He suggested it is still too painful for such a movie.
At the end of the movie, just prior to the plane crashing, with screams in the background, the screen goes black. Then he heard the wailing and crying of the people and family members in the audience. He further said that until the day he dies, he will hear the sounds in his head of those wails.
I will not be seeing the movie. One and a half hours of pure pain is not something I want to subject myself to. I can only imagine the horror. That is enough.
By-the-way, not one actor/actress was signed for the movie that would be recognized.
I've been having a bit of an inner struggle over this movie too, as if I'm trying to wiggle out of an obligation or responsibility. I usually try not to turn away from actual or fact-based, graphical depictions of horror. But this is different. I don't want to go and I think I'm feeling a little guilty about it. I guess I feel that since the people on the flight had to experience it that I should at least be able to watch it.
My plan is to wait till it comes on a movie channel, then catch bits and pieces of it till I've seen the whole thing.
No psych advice please. I'm fine.