"This movie is to "remember" the incident of United Airlines Flight 93. It is painful and difficult to remember, but it can also be inspiring and wise to remember."
- "Flight 93" "Pual" Greengrass, the director of "
Flight 93, I just want to ask two questions: What kind of mood do people watch this movie with? Why do you want to make this movie? What
kind of movie viewing mood?
Before "Flight 93", we must first solve this question - what kind of mood did you watch
this ?
As the family members of the victims on Flight 93, how did they feel?
As family members of other victims, how did they feel? How do you feel?
As Americans who have experienced 9"11, how do they feel?
As people from other countries who have seen the live footage of 9"11 countless times and know about the 9"11 incident even though they are outside the United States, how do they
feel?
The director of the film, Greengrass, is a journalist. He spent many years in the filming of "No. 93". Soldiers and even civilians conducted interviews to collect a large amount of relevant information and filming materials. Greengrass said, "More than 40 families of the victims of United Airlines Flight 93 provided cooperation for the filming of the film. For example, they provided the crew with information about the families of the victims. details. Including details on what they were wearing that day and what sweets they used to eat when flying. "
The film uses the recording of the actual conversation of the flight on that day. In the choice of actors, the use of big names is avoided to reduce the authenticity of the film, and in the selection of actors to play the victims, Greengrass follows the principle of having some similarities with the victims themselves and a certain basis for performance, even many grounds at that time. Personnel played themselves. In terms of photography, Greengrass's consistent documentary principles are followed. Just like his perfect and realistic performance in "Bloody Sunday", "No. 93" continues to shoot with a hand-held camera, shaking the lens, and irregular jumping (including many times). The coaxial jumper), retains the scene noise, does not avoid the long silence, quite the shadow of some "Dogme95" movies. No wonder Greengrass said he wanted to make the film a documentary, a film that was almost non-fiction.
Less than five years after 9"11, it is difficult for us to say that the families of the victims have really come out of the haze of that year. For most of them, the only way to get out of that "Black Tuesday" may be to "forget" It is said that time can dilute everything, and this rule undoubtedly depends on the word "forget" to make it last forever. Forget that bloody morning, forget the phone ring that ripped apart peace, and forget that relatives passed the phone at the last moment of life. The call to oneself, whether calm or excited, but equally heart-wrenching, forgetting his or her last
smile before going out, the memory of that glance, that smile, every move, every gesture, is painful for the living. Torture, wounds torn by violent pulling, bloody and bloody, revealing bones, pain - the pain is unbearable, then, learn to forget, forgetting is the best medicine for wounds, time is the best carrier of forgetting, so, four years After a while, the wound has slowly healed. Maybe on a rainy day, he or she from the bottom of my heart will come out to stimulate the deepest pain once again, but it is only a moment, the deceased is gone, and the life is alive. Those who want to continue to live, cover their chests, and they will pass, and the days tend to be calm.
However, at this moment, it jumped out, wearing the "coat" of a documentary, it was so real, so everything about that bloody morning was like a galloping lightning bolt, and every small piece of memory was like finding After taking the conversion it deserved, it was quickly connected by "it" (like a thin line), and all the forgotten pictures were pieced together at full speed to form the most primitive gesture, and all of them could not choose to flow into the fragile nerves of the family members. They were far away, their bodies trembled, their wounds were torn apart, and the tenderness that was always reserved for him or her in the deepest part of their hearts was touched again.
Relatives of some of the victims were invited to the premiere of "No. 93". During those dozens of minutes, the audience was silent. Many people covered their faces with their hands and couldn't bear to watch any more. According to reports, there were even "howling and crying" scenes. In the scene, although some families of the victims showed extraordinary strength and considered the film "necessary" and "brave", most families showed the pain of the wound being reopened. Not only the families of the victims on Flight 93, an ordinary American also burst into tears during the film screening, she kept saying, "The directors shouldn't have made such a film, this decision of theirs It's completely wrong, the American people don't need this movie. Maybe their wishes are good, but it brings the American people even more sad memories." At the premiere of the film, according to a Chinese writer in the United States, people looked at the relatives of the deceased who cried bitterly on the family table, and felt the pain of innocent people losing their relatives, "This is really a
painful film. "
Similarly, when I was outside of the United States, I couldn't help but feel the emotion in my heart while watching "No. 93", a plane suspended in the air, swaying, up and down, the fate of all 44 innocent people It is in the hands of four Muslims who resolutely committed suicide for the sake of "Allah". The parties involved do not know what the four hijackers are going to do, but, I know! The parties do not know what will happen to them, but, I know! ! I know exactly where they're going, no matter what the 44 warriors on board do, they won't change their fate, their fate was already known before I watched this movie because it was billed as a "documentary" "Hollywood Movie!
For the families of the victims of Flight 93, watching this movie is a pain, and even those families who show their support for this movie will surely feel unbearable heartache when watching this movie.
For other families of the victims and Americans who lived through 9"11, it was also a painful experience of a healing wound being reopened.
For other viewers, this is at least a movie that will touch your heartstrings, whether intentional or not. You will pray silently for the warriors on the 44 planes, and you will even feel heartache if you are vulnerable.
However, heartache, heartache, heartache, and the similar viewing mood of different audiences hides a common cornerstone that cannot be ignored—— This is a near-documentary Hollywood movie, and the reality it is attached to is so well-known and heart-wrenching!
Heart-wrenching for the families of the victims or Americans, because the protagonists on the screen are almost their relatives, or with them Relatives have the same experience, and the last moments of their lives are being played on the screen, and this moment is so sudden, helpless and cruel.
Heartache outside the United States, because we already know the story before we watch the movie. The ending, according to reality, no matter how the characters in the film act, they cannot change their final destiny, or our emotions, our tears, and our heartaches are precisely because of the wit and bravery of the 44 warriors and their destined unchangeable destiny. Contradictions arise. For us who are accustomed to watching Hollywood's happy ending where justice overwhelms evil, such a disaster movie in the true sense is beyond our habit of watching movies. Hollywood movies often create a "safe space" for us. Being broken, our heroes have lost their former halo and the temperament that they were aiming for, and no longer "reduced" to ordinary people like the nine-life cat, and all their resistance will be of no avail.
What kind of shooting purpose?
The real events of 9"11 were made into a feature film in a near-documentary way, and the actors, scenes, camera and other aspects were in place, all of which were destined for the success of this Hollywood film. No wonder "No. 93" has aroused the film critics. According to the formula of "more than 50 million US dollars in the local box office in the summer + controversial topics caused by current political concerns + a long list of media praise = Oscar nomination for best picture", "No. 93" has become "the No. 1 Oscar in 2007" "Hot Candidate" film.
If a chance to be nominated for an Oscar is the success of a Hollywood film, the pain of the audience is the biggest price of its success. The closing credits of "93" indicate that the purpose of making this film is to give To all the passengers and crew of Flight 93 and their families, after watching this movie and seeing this text, I suddenly thought of a paragraph written by Mr. Qian Zhongshu in the preface of "Besieged City": "Because Yang Ms. Jiang's constant supervision helped me block a lot of things, saving time, and I was able to finish the writing with a lot of money. As usual this book should be dedicated to her. However, recently, I feel that presenting a book is also like "dedicated to the country", "returning power to the people", etc., but it is just a vain illusion of language, and the delivery of the famous saying is actually just like a magician playing with a flying knife, let go And didn't let go. Give your work however you want, it is always the author's own. It’s a big book, and it’s not worth being so delicately dishonest, so that’s all.
” “Dedicate your work as you like, the work is always the author’s own.” This sentence is so simple, yet so profound. Dedicated to those victims and their families, but in the end, this movie still belongs to the director, and director Greengrass belongs to Hollywood. It can be said that "Number 93" belongs to Hollywood in essence.
At present, "No. 93" brings more pain to the audience to retrieve memories, so many people are puzzled, why do they have to re-open the wound? Why do you want to experience the pain of being attacked and losing a loved one again? Director Greengrass replied, "This movie is to "remember" the incident of United Airlines Flight 93. Remembering is painful and difficult, but remembering can also inspire and enlighten people." The first two The comments of the first sentence are quite pertinent, but the statements in the last two sentences seem to be high-sounding. In fact, if you think about it simply, it is a cliché to dedicate it to the victims and their families. It can be said that, in essence, "No. 93" is just another Just an example of Hollywood's success by leveraging debate.
Although "No. 93" tries to be close to the real events and reflect the characteristics of the documentary, due to the incompleteness of the material and the inability to confirm the details, it is inevitable to add the director's guess. This point, the producer has also publicly acknowledged. Adding the director's guess will inevitably bring the director's own understanding and experience of the entire incident. As a mature Hollywood director, Greengrass naturally knows what elements to add can make the movie more touching and sensational.
According to the 9"11 investigation report, passengers on Flight 93 fought the hijackers during the final stages of the flight, and there is no evidence that passengers rushed into the cockpit. In fact, the investigation report suggested that "the hijackers remained in cockpit control. The plane, the passengers were kept out of the cockpit door.” But the movie shows that the passengers used the carts filled with drinks to smash the cockpit door and rushed into the cockpit, which directly forced the plane to finally crash. And on Flight 93 's black box suggests that it may have been the hijackers themselves who chose to destroy the plane, rather than the passengers rushing into the cockpit.
According to one of the film's producers, Leroyed "Lewin," Number 93 did There are fictional elements, but it is done for artistic needs. "Our purpose is different from the 9"11 investigation report. We are to express the director's intention. We are not journalists, our director is an artist. . . . . . It doesn't matter whether the passengers rush into the cockpit or not, the film is meant to reflect an atmosphere. "
As a result, "No. 93" has become such a film. From the perspective of most of the content, the choice of actors and the shooting method, it is a "documentary-like" that is almost real, and from some plots and details, It's yet another feature film with drama. Through the shell of the "documentary", it brought the audience back to that bloody morning, tore open the audience's wounds that had not yet fully healed, and under the banner of "remembering all this in memory of them", it ravaged the parties involved. Nervous, consuming their emotions but high-sounding; hiding the heart of the "feature film", in some bridges, the creator uses his creative experience and understanding to change the truth or present what he thinks is true, the purpose is just to make this The "real" story is more moving and tear-jerking, and in the end "No. 93" is in its present form.
In recent years, Hollywood seems to be more and more keen on the shooting of "documentary feature films", and last year's "Munich" and "Crash" are the best representatives, the latter is arguably a variant of the genre, and this year's "Flight 93" is the most typical representative of this type, and Stone's "World Trade Center" will also be presented with the theme of 9"11 in the second half of this year. Stone said in "JFK" that war is the most important part of a country. A good way to make money, perhaps for Hollywood, more practical disputes and more turmoil is the secret to its rolling wealth. After nearly five years, Hollywood understands that the theme of 9"11 is a cash cow that it cannot let go of, so , with "Flight 93", then there will be "World Trade Center", so the emotions and pain of the families of the victims can be selectively ignored, so all profits and interests are changed in the name of "dedicated to heroes and their families"
It was so grand, so audiences all over the world danced the clown dance under the baton of Hollywood and were still shouting, "Hollywood, you are a genius!"
But, is five years too short for the families of the victims?
06.07.22
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