Ninety-Three

You know, if I ever had a chance to do something wild and crazy again, like see a movie, I’d certainly go see United 93.  For a more eloquent discussion of the thing, I’ll point you here.  For me, it’s pretty simple: it’s not too soon. That some may protest that I need to qualify such a statement with a “for me” and an explanation of where I was and what I was doing that day so that I can be told that I’m not from the right place or related to the right people to have an opinion points to why it needed to be made.  (For what it’s worth, I saw the director on the Today show earlier in the week and all of the families from this flight okayed the project.)

Whether it’s done well or done badly, we need to have these things out in the open, dammit, where they can be dealt with.  Never daring to speak of it lest we upset someone is a path straight to hell.  Pardon the psychobabble, but we need to process the thing a bit, I think, to think about it and remember how we got to where we are now and think about where it is we need to go from here.  Not just react, but think, in a way that we can’t if we just stuff down the horror every time it tries to bubble to the top.  Reacting got us the TSA, ferchrissake.  It’s past time that we delve a little deeper, endure a little discomfort to ensure we’re building an America that’s worthy of the sacrifice these people made for it, for us.  I’m really not sure there is such a thing as a wrong time to remember--to honor--that kind of heroism.

I hope it’s done well, but that it’s being done at all is, I think, a good thing.  I’d see it just because somebody had the balls to make it.  If having it out there inspires us to be a little better, to think a little more clearly, to remember the contrast between our world now and the world before that day, then it will have accomplished something amazing.  From the looks of the discussion so far, in that way it already has.

1. Even on the television spots for the movie the director comes on and tells everyone that the families approve of the timing of the film.  I think it will be interesting to see the box office receipts on this one.  From the timing of the release, I’m betting the DVD/Video release will coincide with the 5 year anniverary.  But I do agree: we need to remember and honor the bravery and sacrifice of all those who died in that crash along with those others who died in related events.

   Posted by  on  04/21  at  11:01 AM

2. Well said.

   Posted by Ith  on  04/21  at  01:11 PM

3. I will be one of those not seeing United 93.

   This is why.

   Posted by DCE  on  04/21  at  08:17 PM

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