<p>I just saw the movie United 93. All I can say is that I was stunned. It was like reliving that day again. I think so much of the realism comes from using many of the people playing themselves in the air traffic control and military centers. The entire movie is shot in a style that makes you believe that you are there, and the tension is unrelenting. I highly, highly, highly recommend it. Has anyone else seen it?</p>
<p>I have not seen it, but I have only seen extremely positive reviews. I can’t wait to see it. Thanks for the report.</p>
<p>Sean Burns (Philadelphia Weekly): “At no point during United 93 does it feel like you’re watching a movie. It feels like you’re there. And, yes, this is is a truly terrible, sickening feeling. The film is as raw as an exposed nerve–which is exactly how it should be.”</p>
<p>Kit Bowen (Hollywood.com): “Be prepared. United 93 is overwhelming, telling a story we’ve all come to know so very well. It will be one of the most affecting movies you’ll ever see–if you can bring yourself to see it, that is.”</p>
<p>There’s no way that I want to see that movie. Even though I live far from NYC and DC, Sept. 11 was the worst day of my life. I have no desire to relive any part of it.</p>
<p>don’t think I want to see it. I know the ending.</p>
<p>OMG, dig, I was JUST going to post this…my middle D just saw it, and she’s sobbing uncontrollably right now–<em>very</em> traumatized. 
She went with her best friend and her mom. I think I should have put more thought into whether to allow this. I feel horrible 'cause I haven’t seen it yet…I probably should have seen it first…<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>My husband and I just got home after viewing the movie. I could never look away from the screen. I was particularly struck by the juxtaposition of the continuous prayers by the terrorists in Arabic with the “Our Father’s” of the passengers. And, yes, at the end, I felt EXACTLY the way I felt after I watched the second plane fly into the World Trade Center on NBC News that morning…horrified and dead inside. </p>
<p>I think it is an IMPORTANT movie for Americans to see. Because an IMPORTANT message has been lost after 5 years. Osama Bin Laden is still out there planning these elaborate and evil ways to kill us and is more than willing to wait 10 years until we are complacent again.</p>
<p>I will have to say that it truly honors the passengers, ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary event. The movie takes place in real time from the moment they board until the end. And when the movie ended, many people in the audience applauded - not for the movie, I think, but for the people aboard the plane. I too think it’s important for every American to see.</p>
<p>yeah, i don’t think i can/will see it.</p>
<p>A movie reviewer said yesterday that he was VERY disturbed when he watched the movie. He said that it made him “relive” Sept 11th. He feels that it is a mistake to “relive” a painful memory. It is only healthy to “remember” a painful memory. </p>
<p>He thinks that too many people will be disturbed by the movie. He likened it to Holocaust survivors who could not bring themselves to watch Schindler’s List because it would make them relive the horror. Since we all lived thru 9/11, it will be too painful for us to view the movie – especially since you are made to feel as if you are on the plane.</p>
<p>This is not like watching Passion of the Christ (which brought many of us to tears) since none of us was present on Calvary nor does that movie make us feel that we are on the cross.</p>
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<p>Can I just say thank you for mentioning DC? The attack on the Pentagon is like the red-headed stepchild of 9-11. Everyone seems to forget it.</p>
<p>Unless all the proceeds are going toward the victims’ families, I don’t think I want to pay to relive such a bad time.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch it either. On the other hand, at the 5 year point, perhaps it is critical for us to have those feelings re-awakened…</p>
<p>I think it’s unnecessary. I really do. Yes we need to be aware. Yes it’s important to unify as a country. The producers are making money off a movie that documents the worst terrorist attack in the nation, and that bothers me. It’s history, I know, but it seems too soon and disturbing. I feel the same way about war movies in general. I hate thinking that someone is profiting on movies like these. The only way I would be okay with them is if the proceeds were going somewhere beneficial, as college-ish said.</p>
<p>I personally will not see this movie, just as I did not see “Passion of the Christ” or “Schindler’s List,” because I know how movies like that affect me. I’m afraid I would be like berurah’s dd, although perhaps not openly sobbing. I would most likely have nightmares and keep seeing it again and again in my head.</p>
<p>Movies like that can make some appreciate events and people more. Or they can traumatize. My imagination is such that I don’t need the movie to remember–it would be too much for me.</p>
<p>dear CC friends and for those of you who have teens who will be seeing this important film. I may be too visceral a person to bear seeing the movie unless I can get up and leave the room and wander away at times. I doubt I will go see the film in theaters.
But many of us and many of our children will see it.<br>
Just seeing the clips put me in a tailspin. My father was a pilot for 25 years for our Air Force and I grew up near airfields and knit in into the lives of teams of people who kept the planes loaded properly, navigated properly, repaired, aloft and on schedule.<br>
Seeing our citizens murdered on Flight 93 represented by their mothers, fathers, brothers, and brave widows still working as flight attendants and interviewed on Larry King this week was a comfort to me, because I could see that the victims’ loved ones took some comfort from the film and felt emboldened to speak their minds publically, and they knew we would all be there to embrace them when they spoke about how they are doing now and what they think after five years.
I want to share a link to a brief piece of writing that many of you saw in the New York Times magazine of September 23 dedicated only to writing about the events. It is a short and searing essay that novelist Richard Ford contributed on how blessed he was to have been physically present when his own father passed away despite the regret and wonder such a loss always brings.
It is an essay about bearing witness, which I am suggesting is the place where I intend to center my talk on this subject with my sons.</p>
<p>If you have a teen who is in tears, and you want to help them sort out why the film is so very difficult to watch, I think this essay addresses the personal instead of shedding light on the political, but the essay has legs.<br>
We all have a deep need to finish the circle of life with our loved ones near us, with our own rituals, loving faces, and familiar comforts at hand, and it is also true that those of us who stand by when someone dear to us is dying are served by being present and by witnessing. I think Ford conveyed the horror that so many Americans suffered when they were denied the decency of being allowed to be with their loved ones in any manner when they left this world.
Maybe the emotion that this film creates in our teens and ourselves should be rechanneled into making a 2006 personal contribution of service or funds. </p>
<p>the essay:
<a href=“http://www.911childrensfund.org/quotes.html#[/url]”>http://www.911childrensfund.org/quotes.html#</a></p>
<p>the Auden image source on the subject of bearing witness
<a href=“http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~creswell/auden.html[/url]”>http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~creswell/auden.html</a></p>
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I know what you mean…I tend to be this way as well, and now, I’m very worried about my D with regard to this. When my D could finally speak, she just kept saying how hard the passengers had tried NOT to suffer that fate…the ultimate futility of their concerted efforts really disturbed her. </p>
<p>Also, another problem with her seeing it with her friend was that both her friend and her friend’s mom are very unemotional…NEVER express feelings of any kind. This is in stark opposition to our family, so I think my D felt compelled to sit on her feelings 'til she returned home, which was nearly impossible, and when she arrived here, she just lost it completely, poor baby…</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>I haven’t decided if I will see it or not-
but I find it interesting that the title was changed from Flight 93 to United 93
Product placement?</p>
<p>I could never go see that movie. That day is still plenty clear in my mind.</p>
<p>emeraldkity4, there was a made for TV movie made in 2006 called Flight 93, so that may be why the name was changed. It was on TV this weekend. I happened to turn it on just as the terrorists were taking over the flight, and I couldn’t watch anymore, and I’m sure I could never watch the theatrical version. I’m very much like beruah’s daughter. I think it’s a very important movie, and I’m very glad that the families of those killed on the flight were consulted. I also understood that 10% of the opening weekend’s profits was going to the memorial for Flight 93.</p>