Oliver Stone

[Occhidiangela]

As far as the movie goes, personally the movie has come out too soon. Now, I'm not buying into this media frenzy (I've seen the story on Fox News, CNN and the local channel questioning if its too soon to release a movie about 9/11). Rather, on a very personal level I'm still unable to touch the subject matter. I watched about 25-30 seconds of the extended trailer before having to turn it off. It touches an emotional string still wound a bit too tight. I'm sure in time it'll wind down, but as long as I know troops in Afghanistan and Iraq who are serving the issue is still too touchy to sit through a feature film.

I'm glad to hear positive feedback, especially from you Occhi.
Couldn't help myself from doing that;)

Cheers,

Munk

Any political element of that film is extremely subdued. This is a story about New Yorkers. You never see the planes hit the building. You see the action from the perspective of people reacting to the unthinkable. There are some parts of the film where you see people watching TV, and I think Stone got the footage from the Networks to run. The juxtaposition of people in New York watching, on national TV what is happenind a few miles down the road is a neat observation on the media age.

Occhi