First Words on United 93
There is much to say about Flight 93, and I’ll have more developed reactions to it up at various outlets over the next week or so. But the short take is that it is the most intense, devastating, haunting, filmgoing experience of my life, a masterful depiction of national tragedy on a tightly-focused personal scope. It is a movie that is true, in every sense of the word—about as close to reality as fictional film can go. It is a technical marvel, crafted as masterfully as any film; it is not emotionally bombastic, but it is as deeply felt as a movie can be. Greengrass has made a great, grueling, unflinchingly honest movie, a sorrowful memorial, a painful reminder that will stay with me for a very long time.
posted by Peter @ 4/30/2006 07:56:00 PM
2 Comments:
I love Greengrass- Bloody Sunday was brilliant. I plan on seeing this film this week- but honestly- I dont' know how I could keep my critical faculties on while watching this.
Maybe I'm wrong- maybe critical faculties are all that prevent people from breaking down. They help you keep just enough distance between the emotional outbursts. You ought to respond to the negative reviews in Slate and NY Press.
I can react to it critically afterward, but my normal critical faculties of distance and removal broke down. Entirely. That doesn't happen. It's a tough film to sit through.
I've been working on a response all weekend.
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