As Tuesday Night is Film Night falls on the 11th of September this year, we felt it was only fitting, that to mark the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that we should watch something to remember that fateful day, that is why we watched;
World Trade Centre
The title and the subject matter speak for itself really. World Trade Center is based on the true story of John McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) and William Jimeno (Michael Peña), two New York Port Authority police officers, who get called, with a squad of colleagues, to the World Trade Center complex, when news of the first 'plane hitting the north tower was released.
So immediately, we are into the action.
The first 30 to 40 minutes of the film establishes the main characters and follows the story from the first strike, to both towers collapsing. Collapsing with the Port Authority police, trapped inside.
The rest of the film traces the trapped McLoughlin and Jimeno, as they battle to stay alive amongst the rubble. Switching between the current action and flashbacks to fill in the back story to each character.
Directed by Oliver Stone, the film captures in graphic detail and accurate reconstruction, the scene of devastation, panic and madness of this awful, tragic day. With honesty, realism and the occasional poetic licence, Stone and the writers build the emotion, pulling you closer into the tradegy, willing you to feel the raw fear, that must have been felt by the trapped and those searching for them.
The film is chilling, very moving, with an element of heavy going, but if you overcome this and are drawn in, it is ultimately a rewarding viewing.
If you want to feel even the smallest sense of what it must have been like, to be amongst the hell on earth, that New York must have been on that day, then watch this film, you will not be sorry.
No comments:
Post a Comment