Don't Guilt Me....
Have you seen the trailers for United 93 yet? They're awful. If you haven't heard, United 93 is a retelling of the 9/11 flight where the passengers retake the plane from the terrorists and crashed the plane as to not hit it's intended target.
Conspiracy theories aside (I still have a strong belief that the plane was most likely shot down by the US but that's a tale for another time), this was a very heroic act by a group of people thrust into an extraordinary situation. I don't, however, think a theatrical feature film is the way to honor them.
To make it all worse, the trailers for this movie aren't even really trailers. It's the filmmakers telling you why you need to go see this movie, making you feel guilty and parading the survivors' families. In reality, it's more of a disclaimer that pleads with the movie going audience that "we're not really exploiting this". It makes me uncomfortable.
I was in Boston when the whole thing went down. I'll never forget that day. I mostly remember the silence. I was in downtown Boston that night (my acting teacher at the time decided to still have class in an effort to give people something to do to get away from their TV sets for a little while) and there were barely any cars on the streets and no people. Just silence and emptiness.
I lived a town over from Hanscom Airforce Base and during the night heard a jet plane roar over head. Not even thinking, I ran to my front door and looked up. I felt a pang of fear in my gut. I then figured it was a plane from the base and went back to bed. I don't ever want to feel that again.
I think I'll be skipping this one.
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