Lora and I went to see World Trade Center last night. I don't read movie reviews so I honestly had no idea what angle the movie would take.
Just to put things in perspective, I didn't know Truman was a TV star living in the set of a TV show (Truman Show) until the very end of the movie :)
What was so powerful to me about World Trade Center is that you relive 9/11 through the lives of two people. Only two people. And you identify with them so strongly. It was like incarnation. It felt like I was trapped. In fact, I had feelings of claustraphobia as I saw them trapped twenty feet beneath the surface of the rubble.
At the end of the movie I felt the way I felt after Schindler's List. Definitely walked away with a few distinct feelings.
First of all, I don't have a right to complain about anything. It's hard to believe what these two Port Authority officers, Pimento and McLaughlin, endured. One of them had to have eight surgeries. The other one was put into an induced coma for sixth months and endured thirteen surgeries. But they were survivors!
Second, I walked away with a renewed appreciation for the human spirit. The will to live. The willingness to risk one's life to save another. The incalculable and unexplainable bond between husband and wife, parents and kids. I love what McLaughlin says to his wife as he's wheeled into surgery after his rescue: "You kept me alive." The thought of his wife and kids made him hang onto to life.
I appreciate the sacredness of life more today than I did yesterday.
Just to put things in perspective, I didn't know Truman was a TV star living in the set of a TV show (Truman Show) until the very end of the movie :)
What was so powerful to me about World Trade Center is that you relive 9/11 through the lives of two people. Only two people. And you identify with them so strongly. It was like incarnation. It felt like I was trapped. In fact, I had feelings of claustraphobia as I saw them trapped twenty feet beneath the surface of the rubble.
At the end of the movie I felt the way I felt after Schindler's List. Definitely walked away with a few distinct feelings.
First of all, I don't have a right to complain about anything. It's hard to believe what these two Port Authority officers, Pimento and McLaughlin, endured. One of them had to have eight surgeries. The other one was put into an induced coma for sixth months and endured thirteen surgeries. But they were survivors!
Second, I walked away with a renewed appreciation for the human spirit. The will to live. The willingness to risk one's life to save another. The incalculable and unexplainable bond between husband and wife, parents and kids. I love what McLaughlin says to his wife as he's wheeled into surgery after his rescue: "You kept me alive." The thought of his wife and kids made him hang onto to life.
I appreciate the sacredness of life more today than I did yesterday.
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I saw it last Thursday night, too. The movie rocked my world. Lots of emotions.
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