UNITED 93

[LMNO]

As it turns out, John Water's pick for his "special presentation" at the film festival this year was "UNITED 93", the Greengrass film about 9/11.

It's a movie that no one wants to see, but it's a film worth seeing.  I have to honestly say that as a film, it is incredibly moving and powerful.  It could have gone off the rails with Narm and jingoism, but it's incredibly fair, and detailed.  For a piece of cinema, it's fucking fantastically made.

What's very interesting, however, is that when I've mentioned seeing the film, is how people react.  A few times, independently of each other, I've been told it's a propogandist ode to the party line, and doesn't tell the "whole story".  It's like there's a whole other section of people who aren't Truthers, but they also can't believe that a steady stream of human fuckups, errors, and misjudgements brought about the collapse of the towers.

[PopeTom]

9/11 was a conspiracy by the Bush administration.

Everyone in the world was in on it, except for you and the Mrs.

[LMNO]

Oh, cool!

[Doktor Howl]

"Narm"?

[LMNO]

"Narm"?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm

A Narm is a moment that is supposed to be serious, but due to either over-sappiness, poor execution, excessive Melodrama, or the sheer absurdity of the situation, the drama is lost to the point of becoming unintentionally funny. It can be extremely subjective.

It is named for the famous scene in the last season of Six Feet Under, where the main character Nate suffers a brain embolism. He suddenly grabs his right arm and repeats "Numb arm!", but it quickly becomes "N'arm! N'arm!" Despite being the climax of one of the best shows HBO has ever created, the scene was overwhelmingly found by fans and reviewers to be funny rather than sad.

[cainadhd]

So what's the party line... the plane was brought down by passanger cel phones after they learned it was hijacked?

[LMNO]

Just watch the fucking movie.