What the director chose is to return events to individuals and families, choose warmth, and even offer forgiveness.
So, if you're expecting planes blowing up, buildings collapsing, and Nicholas Cage being a hero like in "Rock" and "Con Air," it's going to be a disappointment. In fact, Nicholas Cage's John McLoughlin and another character, Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), spend most of the entire play lying immobile under the rubble, reminiscing and talking about each other to stay awake. wife, family.
And the hell they are in is in sharp contrast to the warm scenes in their memories.
Throughout the incident, thousands of people died and only 20 survived, including John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, buried in the rubble.
Will Jimeno mumbles about what name to name his unborn daughter, and John McLoughlin survives by the idea of making kitchen cabinets for his wife. A bit sensational, maybe, but at the time, I believe it was real.
Downplaying politics, terrorism, the context of events, and hatred reminds that 9/11 is first and foremost a tragedy about individuals and families.
Therefore, this film should probably have a rather contradictory title: a warm disaster film.
Others:
The image processing of the collision process of the disaster only indirectly uses the shadow of the plane, as well as ominous vibrations and sounds, so that the audience can feel a sense of unknown fear faced by people at that time. Avoid the consideration of recreating that cruel moment.
The portrayal of Dave Karnes, a retired Marine Corps sergeant, is very interesting, the heroic image of entering the disaster scene alone at night for search and rescue, and the fierce "I don't know... ...They gonna need some good man out there...to revenge this...", with the low eyebrows of Bodhisattva and the anger of King Kong, I personally feel that it even has the shadow of Uncle Sam of the Bush administration, and the subtitles also typed "Dave Karnes" at the end. re-listed in the marines and served two tours of duty in Iraq In fact, Dave Karnes, the real prototype of this real character, also refused the director's invitation to play
himself in the film because of the director's anti-Bush stance, and even refused to serve as a consultant for the film. The description of the event is very accurate. (from IMDB)
Finally, it is worthwhile to be happy that this film is not made into a disaster film with a love triangle like "Titanic" and "Pearl Harbor".
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