Do you know the true horrors of 9/11?

Question

I cant believe the amoutnt of support for the World Trade Center film. It is nothing short of an atrocity on American culture and dignity.

I see that most people's response to this subject is "well we need to reflect, and it's a beautifull film," and also "well it's been 5 years, about time!"

Would it be arrogant of me to ask you how much did 9/11 really affect you? I didnt want to share this personal information, but I lost a cousin and a very dear family friend. I live less than an hour from manhattan, and Newark airport is less then 5 minutes from both my dorm and dad's house.

I remember my first day of high school, not as a jouyous coming of age day, but as a complete nightmare I've been trying to block out ever since. I sat and watched news footage of death and destruction, learning later that my loved ones had suffered. I know countless classmates whose lives were completely changed.

And now someone is trying to make money of this tragic story?
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My point is, it is much to soon. Especially for those of us whose lives were forever altered or damaged on that day.

It is one thing to tell the story of two heroes who survived, (and including the flight 93 movie) you could do a tribute, or a documentary, but a hollywood blockbuster?

To me it looks like nothing more then a mongrel attempt to capatalize on emotion of the American people. It deeply nauseates me that someone is making millions on the story of my cousins death.

I'd like to thank Hollywood for reminding me of that Nightmare, and my heart goes out to all those who's memory, and bravery, are being disgraced by this thought. And we are still facing tragic terrorist attacks and plots, and even still in the war cause by 9/11!!!

I, along with most everyone I know will surely be boycotting this movie, and the slew of others likely to follow.




(I miss you tammy)

Answer 1

Although I do mourn your losses, I have noticed that many people are starting to forget 9/11 and some people on the west coast and great plains don't even know about it!

I was shocked by how so many people in AMERICA don't know about 9/11.

I ask some friends of mine, "You know about 9/11"

With a response of "No...oh wait, isn't that the towers that planes crashed into and the buildings fell?"

This was all they knew about that day.

One day some friends asked me who was Osama Bin Laden...and its been 5 years!!

They didn't know.

I was just upset on how many people know so little about this day or the people involved.

Answer 2

You have my condolences for your loss. It didn't upset me as much as you because i didn't lose any friends or family, but I did grow up in NYC, so I was just as furious as anyone else who lived there at the time. I was in college at the time and I wanted to punch someone out when I heard it on the news.

Despite that, however, I wish to see the film. From what i've read, the film isn't so much about the WTC being attacked as it is about two cops who were buried alive in the blast. If that's the case, than it sounds like the movie was made to honor the memories of the deceased.

The timing could be better though. Making a movie of this magnitude five years after the tragedy is acceptable, but not when its during a war that was a direct result of the tragedy. Oliver Stone should have waited until the war was over.

As far as boycotting the film, I don't think that would do any good. Attempting to boycott the film will just give it extra publicity, which in turn increases the chance of it making a lot of money.

I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but for your sake and the sake of the victims, I hope all the camel f*ckers responsible for 9/11 are captured and tortured; they deserve it.

Answer 3

I lost friends in the trade center as well. And although they were not close I do feel for the people who lost loved ones.
I have lost loved ones also to other useless acts.
The good telling of a part of history, that affected so many lives doesn't bother me,
The actor however does. I have yet to see a film that Nicholas Gage is in that allows room for other characters, or even the plot become more important than him, even for a moment in a piece.
I haven't seen this film yet, but I will over the next few months, perhaps when it comes out on DVD.
But I don't expect too much, because of who the star player is. I do like the director Oliver Stone which is one of the only reasons I'll attempt watching it at all.
As for it being too soon; I think not. Police collect information as soon as possible after an event. Not to hurt the people who are suffering from loss, but because the further we get from an event the more facts get lost abd distorted.
We are involved in the middle east for a large part, because of events that occurred on that day. And every American needs to know what those events were which led up to whets going on in the rest of the world.
I don't agree with most of the things we are into over there. But to say we shouldn't put the events out there for everyone to see is not the correct way to deal with it. I just hope they don’t distort the facts of the event with their dramatizing of the story.
I will reserve final judgment of the film until I see it.
Who knows Nicholas Gage may give the facts of 9/11 some screen time, and he may even give a good performance in this film and then I'll alter my opinion of him as well. I have about other actors in the past.

Answer 4

You will have to decide if I have a right to say something. After 9/11 I kept tributes to the fallen at my desk at work. My supervisor told me to remove them after a month, in October 2001. They are still there today!

I changed my screen saver to a scrolling list of the names of the victims as they became known. It takes six hours for the list to scroll by and then repeat.

From June 29 to July 4, 2003, I made a pilgrimage visiting each crash site. Standing at the edge of the field in Shanksville, above the Pit in NYC, or along the construction partition at the Pentagon, I silently remembered the parting of those who died at the hands of murderous terrorists who sacrificed innocent civilians in the name of their god.

I do not know if Oliver Stone and company are trying to make money as their primary motive in making the film. Maybe he just wants to tell a story about some of the heroes. Maybe he is trying to help us not forget - so many seem to have forgotten why we are in Afghanistan and Iraq, and why we must fight terrorism globally.

Steven Spielberg made "Schindler's List" as a tribute to something good that happened amidst a horrible tragedy. Good people sacrificed their lives saving other good people on 9/11. They gave of themselves amidst a horrible tragedy which we all witnessed live. My heart broke as I saw each tower fell, knowing what was happening inside.

Perhaps it might be helpful to look at Flight 93 and 9/11 from that perspective. To bring good from tragedy. The words "Let's roll!" bring a certain feelingto my heart, now that I know it was a phrase one man used to convey "we are going through with our plan" in an everyday sense, and most likely they were his last words in a final sense to protect countless people on the ground [flight 93 was to either target the Capitol or the White House].

You have my sympathy and my condolences for your grieving heart. I am sorry that you and your loved ones were directly effected. I wish I could do more to preserve their memory. I cannot. My resources are limited. Perhaps, in his own way, Oliver Stone is doing something I cannot do - and that is to bring the lost love of your life to everyone's remembrance once more!

Shalom!

Answer 5

I had a family fried die on one of the planes that crashed into the world trade center, and she was on her way to her wedding. I also had another family friend who died there in the world trade center. I lost people very close to me that I've known since the first couple days of my life. And it pains me to think of them because I miss them like hell.

However, I don't think it's wrong to document what happened there. Not everyone had someone die, and they don't truly realize what it's like. The holocaust has been filmed about. World War 1. World War 2. This is something that deserves to be filmed about. It's an opportunity, a chance. We have to take the chances that we get.

Answer 6

I didn't see the movie and I don't plan on seeing it. The previews seem to reflect on the firefighters and the police more than it does the victims. I know they helped to look and save people but that's their job. They get paid to do that. Granted this doesn't happen everyday thank god but what about the thousands of people that died. Nobody seems to talk about them, its all about the firemen and police. I think it's wrong and I think this movie came out to soon. All the people that were affected by loosing a husband, wife, children, that are trying to get past this tragity now have to relive it all over again. Its all about the money, greed is everywhere. God Bless those who lost their lives.

Answer 7

your right but there is also people who need to know what happen from what i know there is 2 people who was there firefighters who helped with the story and almost lost their lives themselves..it was very tragic and sad, and the whole world felt the pain of it. I didnt know anyone but sometimes it helps me to get the full impact of something as i watch the story play out before me..

I felt this way about titanic..i felt that the money should be donated to some cause, to do with the victims,or the family that would have made me feel alot better..

Answer 8

If this film is what it takes to rekindle America's flame, then I support it. You are correct though; it is not very moral to make a buck off of someone else's misery. But I believe this nation needs to be reawakened to the threat that still exists out there. We may never know what looms just over the horizon.

(Well, we know England and Asia are over there eventually. But I was speaking figuratively...)

I am sorry for your loss. You are in my prayers - just as you have since 9/11.

God Bless!

Answer 9

The tradegy was everywhere on the news and everyone knew what happened was horrible. Each and every American knew that many people lost there lives. I don't believe that any money should be made off of it. No one has to go to a theatre to find out what happened. I think it's very disrespectful to the families and friends who lost loved ones. In any way there should be NO money made off of the tradegy unless the money goes straight to friends and family who lost loved ones.

Answer 10

I wont go see the film.
If it was a documentary it would be different, and if profits were being shared for a good cause.
I agree with you , not in good taste, and pretentious that it is not for money.
Thats when the USA stopped for the day and the world watched.
I will never forget it.
Sorry for your losses.