This years Tribeca Film Festival opens today with multiple September 11th related films, including “United 93”. Who says that five years is an acceptable time frame for these families to be reminded of the loss of their loved ones? I might not have done my homework much on the subject, but from what I’ve heard the families had a lot of say in the release for this movie. Upon the making of this movie it is said that no “stars” were to be cast, no one person was to be “the star” of the movie, and the people in the movie were to resemble the actual people who were aboard flight 93. While these are good terms, personally I don’t feel its time, despite any deals made between the movie industry and the families involved.
I am quite interested to know how they went about filming this and how factual the movie really is. I have a memory of this unfortunate incident in which I believe has been silenced since that dreaded day. I remember working in North Arlington atop of the Belleville Turn Pike when the attacks were made listening intensely to the radio and following the reports as they were made. One report still stands out in my mind, yet over the course of five years I started to believe I didn’t hear what I thought I heard. As it was reported that flight 93 had been high jacked and was allegedly headed toward the White House, the radio had stated that if the plane had not comply and did not descend immediately that it would be “forced” out of the sky…
Since that very moment nothing was ever said again about this, about the fact that, yes, these people were heros, giving there lives not by choice, but because the order was givin to take the plane out of the sky to avoid the possiblility of more people dying if it did infact hit the White House.
Well I guess to see it is by choice... to read more on the film and the making of, go to http://www.united93movie.com/index.php