Review of United 93 (2006) by Mistie L — 19 Apr 2012

Paul Greengrass successfully makes you forget that he directed most of the Bourne Trilogy. Not to say they are bad film, I think theyâ(TM)re good films, but itâ(TM)s nice to see a director branch out his style of filmmaking. Notably, how to tell a story is what gets you to the top, how to be recognized, all that jazz, Greengrass demonstrates us that he can. He showed us that with the use of quick cuts in many sequences along with other things happening within the story, can impact oneâ(TM)s heart and thinking.

This film was released in 2006 and is regarded one of the best films of that year alone. I never had much interest in the film when it first came out. I donâ(TM)t remember nothing about that film until I flipped to the channel that was playing the film. I stopped and watched. I didnâ(TM)t flip the channel. I enhanced the volume. I was seeing a recreation of the day of 9/11 in real time. The film is in real time and it was the perfect way to show how much shit happened that very day. The situation is unknown for the most part and complicated. A lot happens in the film which for the most part was very accurate. We switch through an array of characters. We want to see how much information is being sent and received between the characters because we know whatâ(TM)s going on. We want to help but weâ(TM)re merely watching a screen. Greengrass already won our hearts once we realize that feeling and impossible action. I heard a lot of technical language when it came to some of the characters dealing with the loss of one of the planes. We donâ(TM)t know exactly what they say but we have a good idea. We want to know as much as possible. We want to see how characters in the film gathered that info and reached the conclusion that some flights were hijacked and ultimately struck into those twin towers. United 93 is a tribute to those who lost their lives that day. The final scenes of the film are almost breathtaking. The pace of it goes on overdrive and we are fuckinâ(TM) scared for these people. We see and feel the fears and tears of their door to death. Greengrass knows how to execute the close up very well in those scenes. He wants to flash who are the hijackers in their present state of emotion as well as the travelers. The theme of the film is basically unity. Not only the unity of the passengers or the unity of the military trying to find a way to stop all the madness, not only the unty of the people who have major access to airline traffic, but to the unity of the hijackers as well.

This might hurt taking note of it but itâ(TM)s true. Greengrass shows us people in their most vulnerable and true selves. Even the hijackers. You can see that they immensely fee theyâ(TM)re on a mission for their god. They donâ(TM)t like it, theyâ(TM)re under pressure, theyâ(TM)re scared but they feel itâ(TM)s for the best. Out of all this, this only Greengrassâ(TM) imagination of what happened in those few hours of that tragic event. But itâ(TM)s the most accurate reenactment of it, in the very moment.