Just finished watching this, and not ashamed to say that I had a damn good cry for about five minutes at the end. Fuck me, what a harrowing film. I'm sure that it has been discussed on here before, and I'm not sure how much I can add about the handheld camera technique etc. but what a powerful, powerful film.
All the way through I'm sitting there half-hoping that it's all going to work out alright. I'm putting myself in the position of the people on the plane. I'm wondering at the detachment of the hijackers...
No kidding, at times throughout the film my heart was beating like a fucked clock. It has been a long time since I was so totally absorbed and affected by a film...
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specbebop wrote:Me too. I found it quite extraordinary even when you know exactly what is coming.
The way he captures the chaos in the control tower / centre was outstanding.
Did you feel that he had managed to create a little sympathy (no, that's the wrong word) for the terrorists?
You know what, I'm not sure he did. I guess the fact that they were always talking to each other in a foreign tongue appeared to distance them from the viewer (especially when subtitles are not always used). I guess the nervousness of the terrorists prior to the hijacking does add a touch of humanity (along with some of the panic in the cockpit), but to be honest they still seemed detached for me...
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I haven't been as shattered by a film in a long time as I was at the end of United 93. I don't know if I'll ever be able to bring myself to watch it a second time, and I mean that as a tribute to Greengrass' achievement with the film.
pcqgod wrote:I like how Liebling progresses from a rotting, animated corpse living in his parents' basement to a slightly more life-affirming walking corpse by the end of the movie.
Goat Boy wrote:I recall a midget with large tits dancing.
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I can't bring myself to watch it but I know many who like it and I feel like they're entitled to their opinion.
it burns my grits that this movie has been held up to far more public accusations of opportunism than that ABC wet dream that blamed Clinton Admin for 9/11 and was broadcast before an election.
I hate burned grits.
it burns my grits that this movie has been held up to far more public accusations of opportunism than that ABC wet dream that blamed Clinton Admin for 9/11 and was broadcast before an election.
I hate burned grits.
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