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...artist considerate of his or her audience composes these moments with a precise and practiced eye, unearthing images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks without forcing us to relive the horrific experience in its protracted entirety. The violation of this tacit standard of acceptable length both endows Oliver Stone??s recent film “World Trade Center” with tremendous emotional force and casts it as an excruciating exercise in emotional and sensory masochism. The film depicts the “true life events” of Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage...
Unfortunately, while “World Trade Center,” Stone??s meditation on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, may have ample emotional oomph, it lacks the incisive moral commentary of his classic “Platoon...
...World Trade Center” is moving, to be sure, but rarely in ways that don’t feel like cheap shots tugging at well-worn American heartstrings (and wallets), which may explain why Stone??s 9/11 film feels unnecessarily exhausting while Greengrass’ doesn?...
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...
...each day, these issues and others are debated on the third floor of my dormitory, Reznik 19, into the early morning hours. Israelis and Americans, Jews and Arabs, sit in a square of wooden benches on stone??an area affectionately known as the “Jacuzzi” because of the deep, open space in the center where we stick our legs–and discuss the latest developments...