Friday, May 12, 2006
United 93

September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.

We saw United 93 yesterday. It wasn't like going to a normal movie. Even one that says it is based on actual events. It was intense and an emotionally wrenching experience. The story is told in real time, jumping between scenes from United 93 and the National Air Traffic Control Center and a military command room. Many of the men in the control towers who were there that day played themselves in the film. What happens on the plane is reconstructed from cell phone calls placed by the passengers and trying to fill in the gaps.

The terrorists are not caricatures of evil but ordinary men. The movie is not political. It simply displays the day as it unfolds. The saddest part for me was a montage of people calling home and giving their last goodbyes. Even though we know the outcome, the movie is riveting.
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