Word: portly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...both deal with the immediate response to the al-Qaeda assault. Paul Greengrass' United 93, released in April, dramatized the commotion and heroism on the one hijacked plane that didn't reach its landmark target. Now Oliver Stone has directed World Trade Center, Andrea Berloff's script about two Port Authority cops who were among the last of 20 people saved from the Twin Towers wreckage...
...Even given its narrow frame of interest, World Trade Center skews the story for easy uplift. For example, there was another Port Authority officer, Dominick Pezzulo (played by Jay Hernandez), who was trapped with McLoughlin and Jimeno. He managed to free himself from the rubble, working heroically to pry Jimeno loose before he was crushed and killed. Did Pezzulo have a photogenic wife and kids? Might the detailing of their immediate anxiety and lasting grief not have been as illuminating as showing the ultimate triumph of John and Will's families? Why must this movie about 9/11 be only about...
...actors themselves emit plenty of these screams throughout the film. Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña) are trapped in the mezzanine level when the towers collapse, buried underneath 20 feet of concrete for nearly a day with only their pain to keep them awake and alive...
Consequently, the climactic image of two Port Authority officers emerging from their claustrophobic sepulcher doesn’t feel like the removal of a national sword in the stone—it doesn’t even feel like consolation for traumatized New Yorkers. When McLoughlin and Jimeno rise from the ashes, America does...
...pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through the lanes until they find themselves trapped...