United 93
2006. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
I'm not sure I needed to see United 93. It is a good movie that respectfully tries to recapture the events aboard the hijacked plane that failed to reach its destination on September 11, 2001, as passengers bravely decided to take the plane back from the hijackers. The film impresses by what it doesn't do, easy traps that it avoided. It doesn't offer background information on anyone. We don't see the home lives of the passengers. It doesn't offer individual heroes, but views the group as a collective group. We know, through the course of this movie, only what we would have known had we actually been aboard that plane. There are no added love stories, no big moments or quotes designed to play to the audience. Most impressively, the end credits reveal that many of the real ground crew played themselves in the movie. The movie falters at various times but is quite solid as a whole and certainly keeps your attention. In the end, I don't think it offered me any new information I didn't already know or any new way to look at things. But perhaps it will for some. It just existed as a sober reminder of something we all remember too well.
My grade: B
I'm not sure I needed to see United 93. It is a good movie that respectfully tries to recapture the events aboard the hijacked plane that failed to reach its destination on September 11, 2001, as passengers bravely decided to take the plane back from the hijackers. The film impresses by what it doesn't do, easy traps that it avoided. It doesn't offer background information on anyone. We don't see the home lives of the passengers. It doesn't offer individual heroes, but views the group as a collective group. We know, through the course of this movie, only what we would have known had we actually been aboard that plane. There are no added love stories, no big moments or quotes designed to play to the audience. Most impressively, the end credits reveal that many of the real ground crew played themselves in the movie. The movie falters at various times but is quite solid as a whole and certainly keeps your attention. In the end, I don't think it offered me any new information I didn't already know or any new way to look at things. But perhaps it will for some. It just existed as a sober reminder of something we all remember too well.
My grade: B
posted by Keith Allison at 11:32 PM
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