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Sunday, April 30, 2006

United 93

Vanderleun reviews the movie:

Instead, I like to think that the men and women of United 93 had their souls set upon, in those last moments, the refusal to die as passive victims with seatbelts fastened as the monsters in the cockpit pushed their evil mission to its appointed end.

In a film of brief but telling moments, there's one moment towards the end where you see one man reach down and remove his seatbelt. In that moment you can sense that he goes from being a passive victim to a man who has decided to stand up and engage the evil that has taken control of his life; to take the controls back from thugs and the cut-throats and the mumbling fanatics of a wretched and burnt-out god.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When we went to see "United 93" first of all I was surprised that the threatre was full. I had heard reports that few might go to see this movie.
You do not go see "United 93", you experience it. For me it was 100+ minutes of the most intense emotional involvement I have experienced in a long time, if ever. You know what will happen but yet the atmosphere crackles with anticipation and wondering. The VanderLeun nails it with the question, "What would you do?". My thoughts exactly.