United 93
USA, September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth...
"United 93", a film by Paul Greengrass, is a real time account of the events of United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 09/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when foiled the terrorist plot. I've just come back from the cinema. I didn't suspect that it would be so shocking... I mean- I heard this story more than once and thought that it won't make me hold my breath. But it did.
It's a very realistic, emotionally-packed story based on available facts such as the last recordings from the pilot cabin and the telephone calls made by the passangers. Meanwhile, we can see the ATC's ineffective efforts to deal with the situation. The tension is constantly building up and does not subside till you go out of the cinema and walk a few metres.
I know that there are thousands of films similar to this one with exactly the same plot outline, but the fact that we know it really did happened changes the perspective. There's no voice in your head echoing "it's just a fiction". No, not this time.
Paul Greengrass very thoroughly shows us a clash of 2 different religions. All the passangers pray, we can hear them saying "Our father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name; the kingdom come....", but at the same time the young Arabians hijack tha plane, kill people and lead to the catastrophe in the name of their god. They address him all the time and till the last moment they believe that he wanted them to do that. Incomprehensible, even for practicing believers of different religions, how can a man sacrifice his and other people's lives for the sake of god who demands such an act from you?! The film makes you to think about it...
And there's one thing more that I won't ever forget - this piercing silence after the last subtitles.
No one even said a word while leaving the cinema. Unusual. Terrifying. Moving.
"United 93", a film by Paul Greengrass, is a real time account of the events of United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 09/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when foiled the terrorist plot. I've just come back from the cinema. I didn't suspect that it would be so shocking... I mean- I heard this story more than once and thought that it won't make me hold my breath. But it did.
It's a very realistic, emotionally-packed story based on available facts such as the last recordings from the pilot cabin and the telephone calls made by the passangers. Meanwhile, we can see the ATC's ineffective efforts to deal with the situation. The tension is constantly building up and does not subside till you go out of the cinema and walk a few metres.
I know that there are thousands of films similar to this one with exactly the same plot outline, but the fact that we know it really did happened changes the perspective. There's no voice in your head echoing "it's just a fiction". No, not this time.
Paul Greengrass very thoroughly shows us a clash of 2 different religions. All the passangers pray, we can hear them saying "Our father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name; the kingdom come....", but at the same time the young Arabians hijack tha plane, kill people and lead to the catastrophe in the name of their god. They address him all the time and till the last moment they believe that he wanted them to do that. Incomprehensible, even for practicing believers of different religions, how can a man sacrifice his and other people's lives for the sake of god who demands such an act from you?! The film makes you to think about it...
And there's one thing more that I won't ever forget - this piercing silence after the last subtitles.
No one even said a word while leaving the cinema. Unusual. Terrifying. Moving.
posted by **acronym** at 10:33 PM
1 Comments:
I watched the film the other day and I reacted in much the same way. It portrayed such good courage of the people onboard the plane. Especially heartbreaking were some of the intimate moments with some of the people when they called their families. There was such horror and anguish as the film built up to its climax. During the last moments I thought that somehow they might have overcome the terrorists and somehow safely landed the plane. I know this was never the case which made it all the more saddening. The passengers died as heroes. I hope no one ever forgets that.
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