Shots In The Dark: Flight 93, The Movie

Friday, January 06, 2024

Flight 93, The Movie

Andrew Sullivan links to this trailer for the upcoming Flight 93, about the United flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field when passengers tried to re-take the plane from the terrorists who'd hijacked it. It's impossible to tell from the trailer if the film is going to be serious and respectful and worth doing, but it needs to be, because anything less and both the film and its makers will be pilloried. The stakes are high.

But the trailer did make me think again of how incredibly brave those passengers on that plane were—could anyone say for sure that he would have had the courage to storm that cabin?—and I guess that's a good sign for the movie. I just don't know if I'll be able to bring myself to see it. The pain of that day isn't so far off....

I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Could you watch a two-hour film about the hijacking of Flight 93?

¶ 10:25 PM

Comments:

i think i could, or would, or will.

just fodder: if you think about it, what's really different about it than any other movie based on a horrific real life tragedy? for example... munich, tora tora tora, hotel rwanda, schindler's list, et alia.

# posted by grumpygirl : 1:12 PM

That's a good question, Alyssa. I wonder if it's the chronological proximity of it, the geographical proximity, or if there's something distinctive about this particular horror—maybe the sense that we haven't finished living through it.

# posted by richard : 11:04 PM

yet we all ran out to see fahrenheight 911 the day it opened... (and i loathed it, as an aside.)

i also think that while we've read transcripts and heard phone conversations and seen crash footage, many of us want to to know what really happened on that plane. or, more so, think often about what it must have been like or what we might have done had we been there.

i'd actually be interested in hearing what you think of it if/when you see it. i remember we (you, me) had a conversation not so far after 9/11 about where we'd want to sit on a plane from now on. i wanted to be in the back, hidden. (still do.) as i recall, you wanted to be right up there in first class, ready to take on whatever came your way.

# posted by grumpygirl : 9:39 PM

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