Am just watching the second part of this Path To 9/11 thing that the ABC network in the States produced as a little commemoration for the Obvious Five Year Memorial. There was a lot of flak Stateside of the thing slagging off the Clinton Administration for being more interested in interns than terrorism, and apparently there was a lot of last minute cutting to the thing over that way, but we got the Monica Lewinsky 'pathetic' comment from Harvey Keitel in all its glory.
But this coverage of the actual attacks in 2001 themselves is so Over The Top. The super slow motion coverage, the flickery camera angles - we can all blame the success of 24 for that - the heroic poses, the call for action, any action. It's like fucking Pearl Harbor, with Harvey Keitel instead of Ben Affleck. What utter tosh - especially when you compare this to the movie United 93. And there are a lot of differences between what happened according to United 93 and what is happening according to Path To Stupidity.
Yes, I love those long, lingering shots of the actors playing Condi and Cheney and Tenet. Like, whatever. Maudlin to the extreme, looks like Michael Bay directed it - the question with United 93 and World Trade Center being made too soon after the event, maybe not, but it has to be quality to qualify.
I'm just shaking my head in astonishment at the banality of it. Fuck super slo-mos of plane crashes. Give me the real coverage anyday - terrifying, and you don't have to put music to it or slow it down or anything. Replays I mean, I don't intend to seem to be asking for another act of mega terrorism.
Quote of the day that I just saw on a 9/11 related thing on SBS -
Does God's light guide us or blind us?
I think it was in reference to the terror man can inflict on man, but I'm not sure - is a good one to ponder though.
Paul
But this coverage of the actual attacks in 2001 themselves is so Over The Top. The super slow motion coverage, the flickery camera angles - we can all blame the success of 24 for that - the heroic poses, the call for action, any action. It's like fucking Pearl Harbor, with Harvey Keitel instead of Ben Affleck. What utter tosh - especially when you compare this to the movie United 93. And there are a lot of differences between what happened according to United 93 and what is happening according to Path To Stupidity.
Yes, I love those long, lingering shots of the actors playing Condi and Cheney and Tenet. Like, whatever. Maudlin to the extreme, looks like Michael Bay directed it - the question with United 93 and World Trade Center being made too soon after the event, maybe not, but it has to be quality to qualify.
I'm just shaking my head in astonishment at the banality of it. Fuck super slo-mos of plane crashes. Give me the real coverage anyday - terrifying, and you don't have to put music to it or slow it down or anything. Replays I mean, I don't intend to seem to be asking for another act of mega terrorism.
Quote of the day that I just saw on a 9/11 related thing on SBS -
Does God's light guide us or blind us?
I think it was in reference to the terror man can inflict on man, but I'm not sure - is a good one to ponder though.
Paul
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