I know that there is alot of talk about this film at the moment.
A thread was put on UKS today asking if the subject is to sensitive.
A few people have said oh it's too soon for this to be made, it should be kept to a documentary, Hollywood shouldn't be allowed to distort the facts.
Now i know that this is a strong subject and i understand that people can find it very upsetting. I know for a fact that when i see it I'll be in floods of tears.
This film World Trade Centre made by award winning director Oliver Stone will be very powerful.
The fact that it has only been 5 years since it happened makes people talk but how long should they wait? Lots of films have been made about horrific events, but along time after as we didn't know had happened. Look at films about the first world war, second world war and even Titanic. The reason that these were made so long after the events is that they were unable to make the films. There have been films and programmes about Bosnia and the Gulf war in the early 90's. No one batted an eyelid. Is it because it wasn't about westerners dying that we don't care. The programme ER did a storyline about Darfur and what was said about that?
We live in the 21st century where everything is public access, we live in the information age. We have radios, TV and the Internet. We get to hear about all sorts of things now that we wouldn't have done before. Times have changed so much in the last 100 years. If you just look at what we now have compared to what our grandparents had.
At the end of the day this is a film and it's not hurting anyone so what does it matter. Films will be made and people will watch them.
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I'm inclined to agree. I don't think we, who were not personally affected by these events, have any right to set ourselves up in moral judgement! If there was an outcry by the survivors or the bereaved families, that would be different.
There are far too many people who "know best". If the extrrmist Muslims didn't "know best" there wouldn't be a film. . .
Well I added my tuppence worth to the UKS thread too. I for one will watch it, no doubt be upset, but it will be another angle about a day that had huge significance for me.
Hmmmm
Tricky one, that.
Perhaps waiting a couple more years would have been better.
Will it upset folks? Undoubtedly, particularly those who lost loved ones.
As long as terrorism doesn't get glamourised by it, thereby creating a knock-on effect of drawing more "recruits" to the cause, I'll be content.
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