In the last few weeks, Paramount Pictures has held several advance screenings of Oliver Stone’s latest, ‘World Trade Center’. Obviously based on the horrific event that took place on September 11, 2001, a day I remember as if it was yesterday.
Several conservatives who attended the advance screenings surprised themselves by making some strong praises for the movie and applauded the director, Oliver Stone. The man himself isn’t well liked by many from the right because of his strong political beliefs and has communist tendencies. Though many Americans continue to be heavily misinformed on the true meaning of communism and socialism because of the ‘Red Scare’, but that’s another subject I’ll have to write about one day.
It’s great that a movie done by Oliver Stone is starting to gather some strong praises from the right. It’s about time that they’re not letting their politics get into their way of watching a movie that wasn’t politically influenced. It’s simply a movie about humanity and how they overcome the force of evil. You have no idea how much I wish people wouldn’t play politics over a movie that isn’t even about politics to begin with.
3,000 innocent souls departed from the city of New York City on that very day. This is the second movie from Hollywood that pays a big tribute to the victims and their families to come this year. I do believe we have forgotten 9/11 too soon. Nobody talk about it, nor do any of them recall how he or she felt on that day. Despite the big-shot columnists and political pundits expressing their “feelings” in relation to 9/11, I believe they are taking advantage of it to gain popularity and fame.
Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Michael Moore, Thomas H. Kean and many more are guilty of taking advantage of the 9/11 events to gain their fame and adding to their political statuses.
Now that I’ve mentioned Michelle Malkin, the thing about this so-called conservative is that she’s terribly biased to the point of no return. As a person, I believe in giving everybody a chance and I don’t hold grudges against him or her for his or her political beliefs, though I do think some people may be becoming mentally unstable once they start forming quite a number of conspiracy theories about their opponents and are unable to say a single word that would reflect their “opponents” positively. I have friends from both sides and I don’t see them as opponents, and I never will. I enjoy debating politics and I never get angry with my friends over our differences in opinions. If I seem to become somewhat miffed, it is because that person doesn’t know how to debate, not because of the opinions.
Now, why did I even bother to mention Michelle Malkin? Well, because she is “reserving” her “skeptical” judgment with the rest of the conservatives for the movie. It’s funny how Michelle Malkin cannot go on one story about a liberal without some smearing to go with it. Just click here for her bit on Oliver Stone getting praises from the right. See what I mean about some people being unable to go on without resorting to negativity? How the heck does this woman go on with her life with such an amount of negativity?
Can you imagine living with a person who is constantly complaining about the liberals, liberals, liberals or conservatives, conservatives, conservatives? I couldn’t live with anybody who cannot complain about anything else but politics. It’s just unbearable. Thankfully, I’m able to go on with my life without politics taking up hours of my time a day. I feel sorry for these who do. It’s certainly not a way to enjoy life if they are constantly ranting like rabid dogs.
John Podhoretz, a film critic from New York Post wrote a review. He gave it a poor review, but he seems to have a different perception on the events of 9/11. He believe it was a day of barbaric mass murder, not a day of hope. Myself, I believe it was both as we all witnessed thousands of people falling and being crushed to their death. We also all suddenly came together and came to help which brought hope to the people around the world. He’s entitled to his opinion, but I disagree with him.
I know I will be finding it difficult to bring myself to watch the movie; I even had a hard time watching the preview for it. Seeing the Twin Towers featured in a post-9/11 film sent chills down my spine as I remember the fear we all felt that day. We weren’t sure what to believe if the world was truly coming to an end or that we would be seeing World War III. I’m considering seeing the movie at the theatres once it hits the theatres on August 9. It’s not too soon, it should had been here earlier because people forgot too soon.
September 11, 2001 Lest We Forget
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