Have you seen Bloody Sunday from the same director? I found that pretty harrowing, and I don't have the emotional gut reaction to Bloody Sunday as I do to 9/11.
The reason was that Bloody Sunday is the only non-documentary film I've ever seen that, had I seen it under the impression that it was a documentary, I would have believed it. (The only flaw was that I recognized a couple of the actors.) And I read that United 93 was filmed in the same style. That you could not mistake it for a documentary is only a circumstantial matter of asking, How would there be cameras there? How would the film be preserved? And I don't think that would make any difference.
So if you've seen Bloody Sunday, a triangulation against your reaction to that would be helpful.
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Date: 2007-01-24 05:21 pm (UTC)The reason was that Bloody Sunday is the only non-documentary film I've ever seen that, had I seen it under the impression that it was a documentary, I would have believed it. (The only flaw was that I recognized a couple of the actors.) And I read that United 93 was filmed in the same style. That you could not mistake it for a documentary is only a circumstantial matter of asking, How would there be cameras there? How would the film be preserved? And I don't think that would make any difference.
So if you've seen Bloody Sunday, a triangulation against your reaction to that would be helpful.