The events of 9/11 affected everyone's lives: some people lost loved ones, more than the pain of history, and some people commented on the gains and losses of all parties in a vague way, hoping to have a more thorough and profound understanding of the events from other perspectives.
The disaster, which involved 2,996 victims, was documented in a film, through the eyes of the victims, the eyes of children, or the perspective of rescue teams. Whether the clash of civilizations will make the world worse and worse is unknown, but we hope that the film's record of disasters is not just a simple industrial work, but a personal perspective of grief, cheering, empathy, so that the world can understand and tolerate more.
Flight Thriller 93 united 93: History has submerged corners, life has none
Released in the United States in 2006, director Paul Greengrass employed a large number of unknown actors to commemorate the "marginal" victims of the shocking attack.
In 9/11, terrorist groups hijacked a total of four airliners. Three of them crashed into the North and South Towers and the Pentagon tower of the World Trade Center. United Flight 93 was the only hijacked flight that failed to hit a suicide target, and it ended up crashing into Pennsylvania, killing all 45 people on board. Widespread speculation was that the terrorists on the flight had intended to use the plane to attack Washington. However, all the passengers and staff on the plane resisted the enemy in unison, turned the tide, and saved more lives with their own sacrifices.
From this perspective, the director used the perspective of the flight crew to create this "fictional" realistic story after spending several years interviewing the passengers' families, crew members, members of the 9/11 investigation team, ground personnel and other military personnel and even civilians in the know - because no one survived.
The families of the victims actively cooperated with the filming of the film, providing the crew with details of the families killed, including the clothes they wore at the time of the accident and what candy they used to eat when flying.
To achieve a rugged and dignified sense of picture, Paul Greengrass used handheld cameras and other stylized techniques to simultaneously provide recordings of real-world conversations on the day's flights. There are a lot of silent shots in the film, and the rapid breathing of passengers can be clearly heard.
In the frozen silence, shaky realistic footage, finally when the passengers realized that they would be a human bomb thrown at the crowds and tall buildings, they decided to rise up and retake the plane. The last sentence, "let's roll!" "Is the last word the relatives of the victims heard.
World Trade Center: Rescue and Self-Help
When 9/11 happened, all the firefighters and police in New York City were involved in the earth-shattering rescue, and surprisingly, those involved in the rescue also became rescued in the face of the dangerous disaster - many of the rescuers were trapped in the devastation.
The film depicts two police officers of the New York City Port Authority, John McCullin (Nicholas Cage) and William Guimeno (Michael Pena), who are trapped in the ruins while participating in the rescue, and the oxygen is gradually thinning, and the two rely on their strong perseverance and unremitting efforts to find a glimmer of hope for survival. On the other hand, family members and rescue personnel work together to actively seek effective rescue solutions.
Director Oliver Stone has repeatedly emphasized: "This film is not about death and destruction, but about hope and rebirth, hoping to help Americans heal psychological trauma." So the film avoids the remaining two thousand or so corpses, trying to turn grief into strength, focusing on the two rescued search and rescuers, hoping to inspire more people.
However, the film still drew criticism from the families of the victims, who believed that the film was tantamount to pouring salt on their wounds.
Controversy aside, the film presents a powerful will to survive in the face of disaster.
Reign over me: See me, hear me, take off your headphones
The most terrible thing in the world is not to be crushed by sadness, but to be immersed in it and unable to get out.
The film depicts dentist Charlie Farman (Adam Sandler) losing his wife, three daughters, and a dog during 9/11. Since then, he has closed his heart, wearing headphones every day and riding a scooter like a walking dead on the streets of New York. One day, after his death, he met his friend Alan Johansson (Don Chandel) and gradually came out of his sad memories with the help of his friends.
The two protagonists in the film ride scooters through the streets of New York City, strolling through the streets and passing by the hurried crowd, as if narrating in their own way: this wounded city, flowing with countless life stories, everyone is part of this huge life body, the wound will scabb, and life will continue to live.
The film doesn't just focus on the 9/11 incident itself, but more on where ordinary people are in this huge event, how their lives are affected, and how to heal the trauma. On the surface, the film has nothing to do with the 911 incident, and there is no landmark content such as Middle East policy, al-Qaida, and bin Laden, but the problems derived from it can make people have a deeper understanding of the nature and impact of the 911 incident.
Extremely loud and incredibly close: A key and a boy who has lost his father
Based on a novel by writer Jonathan Safran Fore, SpecialLy Sounded, is a film launched by Warner Bros. Pictures on January 20, 2012 that thematically echoes "Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the 9/11 Terror." The film was directed by Stephen Dudley and starred Thomas Horn and Tom Hanks.
Because his father died in the collapse of the World Trade Center, the young boy Oscar has always called that day "the worst day." A year later, Oscar inadvertently discovers an envelope with "Black" written on it and a key. In order to crack the secret of the key, Oscar traveled 5 blocks through New York and encountered a series of colorful strangers - for one reason or another, each of them was a "survivor" of the disaster, but they all hid their own deep sorrow and pain.
"No matter how much I miss him, Dad will never come back." I thought I wouldn't be alive without him. But now I can. I think he'll be proud of me, and that's my only wish. ”
This is the only 911 film to date that focuses on children. We all naively hope that the scourges of the world will not affect innocent children, and when loneliness and pain unfold gently and silently in the eyes of a child, everything is even more sad.
911 Case Book 11'09'''01 - september 11
This is a short film collection on the theme of 911, directed by the French studio canal film company after 911, invited 11 well-known directors and actors at home and abroad to direct each, each with a length of 11 minutes and 09 seconds 01 frames.
In their shots, people who have suffered from war, famine, and disasters feel empathy and mourn; others either ridicule or anger or sharply criticize American hegemonism; some analyze the meaning of "holy war" in the form of allegories; and others lean over and focus on the trivialities and joys and sorrows of the lives of small people. The moment that changed the world shook everyone's heart...
The film won the 2002 Venice Film Festival International Film Critics Award for Best Short Film (ken loach directing section) and a UNESCO Grand Prix.