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July 22, 2006
"World Trade Center"
The reviews are in for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (trailer here), and to our pleasant surprise, says blogger Jack Yoest:
"It was not a conspiracy movie.
It did not bash Bush.
It was not sappy.
It was not about stupid, church-going nuts.
It did not mock marriage.
It did not blame America.
It did not support radical Islam.
It did not mock Marines.
It did not mock Jesus.
It did not mock cops.
It did not mock family, faith or freedom..."
Michelle Malkin links to several conservative pundits' praise for the film and wonders "Is Hell freezing over?" Indeed most of the reviews are positive; the notable exceptions are John Podhoretz (NY Post) ("because "World Trade Center" tells a story of joyous survival rather than a story of death, it is a fundamental falsification of the meaning of 9/11") and Ryan Sager (NY Sun), who takes that point a step further ("....perhaps the door is now open to something deeper. While it would be too much to expect from Hollywood to see any movies dealing forthrightly with Islamic terrorism and the clash of civilizations in which we are now engaged, we might at least begin to see more movies about what it means to live with the grief of that day, as opposed to simply tracing our fingers over our scars."
Nonetheless, the reviews are mainly very positive, because Oliver Stone, it seems, recognized the sanctity of the human lives lost that day and resisted whatever urge he may have had to transform the depiction of the attacks into anti-America propaganda. Kudos.
Posted by bill at July 22, 2006 10:45 AM
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