A Dark Day Revisited
Hollywood reckons the world is ready for movie about 9/11. - Newsweek
On September 11th 2001, the entire world came to a standstill as terrorists attacks paralysed the city of New York.
5 years after that fateful day, Hollywood has made a film simulating what happened to the Twin Towers as well as the Pentagon.
Many believe that the world is NOT ready for a film that has a theme that is emotionally charged and has the potential of tearing at emotional scars and wounds that have not healed completely.
However I believe that this does not make sense at all because since 9/11, there have been heaps of documentaries and even a drama series made to document the events of that fateful day. These shows contain the footages when the two planes crashed into the Twin Tower. Did they not remind its audiences about the pain that was caused by the attack?
I believe that through this film, more good than harm can be achieved as it raises the awareness of the imperative need for social, religious and racial harmony. We live in an age where a small misunderstanding between different groups of people could spark off WWIII, hence I believe it is important that the media work together with non-governmental organisations in their pursuit for world peace. If people are aware of the dastardly motives of terrorists, they would be careful not to believe the lies they tell but would be more concern in making sure the terrorists would not be able to carry out whatever he's planned. I believe that this film is a big step humanity is making towards fighting terror. We definitely need more than bimbotic speeches at pageants that "promote" world peace.
On September 11th 2001, the entire world came to a standstill as terrorists attacks paralysed the city of New York.
5 years after that fateful day, Hollywood has made a film simulating what happened to the Twin Towers as well as the Pentagon.
Many believe that the world is NOT ready for a film that has a theme that is emotionally charged and has the potential of tearing at emotional scars and wounds that have not healed completely.
However I believe that this does not make sense at all because since 9/11, there have been heaps of documentaries and even a drama series made to document the events of that fateful day. These shows contain the footages when the two planes crashed into the Twin Tower. Did they not remind its audiences about the pain that was caused by the attack?
I believe that through this film, more good than harm can be achieved as it raises the awareness of the imperative need for social, religious and racial harmony. We live in an age where a small misunderstanding between different groups of people could spark off WWIII, hence I believe it is important that the media work together with non-governmental organisations in their pursuit for world peace. If people are aware of the dastardly motives of terrorists, they would be careful not to believe the lies they tell but would be more concern in making sure the terrorists would not be able to carry out whatever he's planned. I believe that this film is a big step humanity is making towards fighting terror. We definitely need more than bimbotic speeches at pageants that "promote" world peace.
posted by Clarence Tan @ 10:57 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:35 AM,
silvanix said…
I wholeheartedly agree that "world peace" from beauty pageants just won't cut it. also i think that the americans are being silly if they say that the new film will have a negative impact on the them because of what you mentioned: many documentries and films have been made regarding 9/11. thus they have absolutely no reason to say anything about this new film in the way of emotions
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