I just feel that I have too many feelings about this theme and this event. I expected a movie to squeeze out those things hidden in my heart, but I can only reflect on it in regret.
The police squad was temporarily sent to the scene and knew nothing about the situation. The film asked them to change their equipment and immediately fell into the ruins of the bombing. Under this premise, whether they are heroes in the ordinary sense, and whether they should bear the respect that heroes deserve, will be a topic of controversy.
——This is where I felt tight in my chest while watching the film. I think they have done nothing, and they were buried in the ground for an hour and a half, struggling not to die. I'm thinking about ordinary citizens, senior white-collar workers and blue-collar cleaners who originally enjoyed the World Trade Office and their sense of identity. They are not included in this story. When the two navies found them in the rubble in the middle of the night with a flashlight, the rescue process was photographed touchingly, with thunderous applause, or when someone from the police station drove to their home to inform them of the latest situation, I couldn’t help but I live in thinking, the people who collapsed directly with the reinforced concrete from dozens of floors.
And I am puzzled: Why is there no large-scale rescue operation overnight on those important nights, and why it has to be like two mysterious heroes looking for survivors.
At this time I found myself falling into a kind of prejudice. But I can't restrain it. Because of this kind of government personnel and police perspective, I have a certain kind of strong resistance. This is probably my personal problem.
The film is of course touching. They are using the power brought to them by their families to balance life and death with opposing, powerful, and even destructive terrorist forces. They have no other so-called weapons other than ordinary lives.
Later, I tried to persuade myself, put aside my prejudice, and thought about it from another angle. The identity of the police may have more advantages (although it is possible to shoot a company working in the World Trade Center, this is my script, the company is also complicated, harmonious, dedicated, and even quarreling, but at this moment, how do they Struggling with the boulders and despair...Is this a bad Hollywood script?), especially their "doing nothing" is worth pondering.
Sudden terror is like war. The police are pushed to the front line, but they are also ordinary people, saying that they are evacuating the masses. In fact, they have to familiarize themselves with the route from the beginning. Even if they have no merit, it is the government's manifestation of mobilizing all forces to solve this tragedy in the first place. They are not heroes. People cheer for them only because: they survived, they were the living people who came out of the ruins, they were the living people who were rescued by the officers and soldiers who also symbolized the government. So they can save the family, which is the point.
In any case, I personally think that this is not a very successful movie. From a certain perspective, it narrows the endless theme of 9/11, and also narrows human nature and even life itself. It's like an overly pure probation film.
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