American director mike binder's new work in 2007, this film is one of the few Hollywood movies that surprised me recently.
When it comes to the 9/11 attacks, aside from the history of unequal confrontation between the United States and the Middle East or the Islamic world, it is the first homeland attack since the founding of the country (it is said that the homeland of the United States has never been attacked by other countries or forces since the founding of the country more than 200 years ago, Pearl Harbor during World War II was the exception, in the Pacific Ocean), the United States launched a retaliatory (doubtful?!) attack on Afghanistan, followed by an attack on Iraq, which brought down the Hussein regime that had used the biological and chemical weapon mustard gas to kill the Kurds in the country. Ironically, Both the Hussein regime and the Afghan Theologian regime were regimes that were overthrown and supported by the United States to prevent the communist forces during the Cold War...
Especially remember that in the years after the 9/11 attacks, no one dared to take pictures of the 9/11 attacks in Hollywood, of course. Laiwu is not an idiot. If <
So I remember that the first 9/11 movie was made in 2004 (or there are earlier movies, but I don't know), I was about 05 I saw "Land of Planty" by German American director Wen Wenders at the Golden Horse Film Festival. I remember that the United States passed patriotism at about the same time (or earlier/later?! ) Bill (Note 1), of course, those who are interested in this event can also refer to McMoore's another documentary criticizing the official statement of 911 in the United States <
Well, the context and criticism come to an end, let's talk about the movie part.
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Since then, Adam Sandler's life has looked like a single and happy BOBO family, forming a punk group, going to the record store to pick old records (although Tang Qiduo often thinks that his music taste is poor), and the audio and video equipment at home is on time, even I envy, but Ironically, these luxurious life and material enjoyment come from the insurance and government pensions left behind by the wife and daughter who died on the 911 flight... Adam Sandler has become a man who deliberately buried the past and bears it spiritually. A zombie with great pain and instability, whose body still breathes and eats. As for his well-rounded roommate, Don Chituo, who later formed a dental joint clinic with three white men? On the surface, it seems that the family and career are both complacent, but they have to face the unspeakable but always present workplace discrimination (in the Here I will tend to use prejudice rather than discrimination, a discriminatory atmosphere that is not imposed on words or actions, but is more profound and differentiated).
The director brought these two former roommates together. What did Adam Sandler, who experienced the pain of losing his wife and daughter, need the most? What does Tang Qiduo, who lives in a white-collar collar and whose mid-life crisis slowly emerges, needs? I find it interesting In one scene, Don Chiduo finally succeeded in getting Adam Sandler to talk to the psychotherapist played by Liv Tyler. After several collapses of Adam Sandler, Liv Tyler asked Adam Sandler to do anything. Le talked to a trustworthy person, and the plot went back to the starting point like a loop, and Tang Qiduo became the object of Adam Sandler's pouring out. Perhaps this is also questioning, when people abandon their best friends and face media such as distance/msn, or even strangers who need to pay to have a conversation, is it actually putting the cart before the horse? If 911 The incident didn't happen, Adam Sandler didn't lose his wife and daughter, could it be possible to make everything come true through hard work?
Or, is he just like those millions of wives and daughters who are fortunate enough to not ? The American metropolis white-collar middle-aged crisis man who got on the dead flight?!
If you go back to a little person who suffered in the inevitable 9/11 historical events and look at Adam Sandler's powerlessness, not even tit for tat When we know where the object is, then he who weeps in the movie explains those deep and incomparable and irreversible wounds. I believe we should watch him with a more tolerant attitude. So, does the filming of Adam Sandler riding a power scooter along the streets of New York in the middle of the film also means that everyone must let the sadness and fear pass, accept the call of the future and prospect, and walk out of the shelter/home? / What about the demon in my heart? I think of Taiwan director Yang Dechang's last feature film <<11>> in which the little ghost head Yangxi took the film camera his father gave him to take pictures of people's backs, I remember the uncle in the film said:
"Why do you Shoot the back of my head with a camera?"
"Because you can't see it," Yangyang replied.
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Perhaps Yangyang's question is more real. He said, "Can we only know half of the things?"
Finally, perhaps it can also be quoted by Wenders in the book "Wenders on Film". ) Dream" mentioned in the article:
"How can we see this country in its own dream except in a daze?
What position is conceivable other than two moods?
I love the cities of this country. With people, more than any other I know.
But I'm also more afraid of it.
I'm happier here than anywhere else, but also more depressed.
It opens my eyes,
and I want to close it. .. "
Note 1: In the weeks after 9/11, the US Congress overwhelmingly passed the purpose of strengthening the domestic tracking and interception of communications to give federal law enforcement officers greater powers for law enforcement and intelligence collection purposes. the Patriot Act.
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