New York World Trade Site, Winter Gardens

Rating: Null/10 (13 October 2008)

I find this difficult to write, as I experience the feature to be an attack against an individual, where I had hoped it to be other.
I searched out my copy of the DVD as it is an Emily Ann Lloyd, companion to Annie and Molly in Annie 2, which is also of 1995. She is age 10ish and playing the younger daughter.
Discover it to be a well crafted story about the Apollo disaster, with lots of Apollo stuff in it, then it gained massively in potential power. The extras in the DVD gave a lot of additional stuff that still makes the package worthwhile to me. In all sorts of ways this feature is magnificent and perfection. Except the feature itself appears to crash this aspect, deliberately, by making a smattering of technical detail to be askew.
The most positive part, for me, is how people in mission control are shown. The filmmaker demonstrates very real skills at portraying the feel of most of the situation, Grumman?, as if he has a real in-tune-ness with the people there. A remarkable achievement, but that became scuppered.
In some ways this feature is still so nice that when I watch it I typically have to shrug off the disaster of the deliberate flaws.
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I personally interpret this to be triggered by a culture clash and a personality clash. Different understandings about taboo. From that there is a demonstration of how today's dominant intolerance ethos turns things into a hatchet job.
It should be easy to interpret my reaction as an over-reaction. It can be dismissed.
Downer that Emily got serendipitied into this feature. I understand her as a girl with very typical growing up hurdles to have to try to face. Someone who got channelled into features that highlighted parts of that until the year 2000, age 16ish, when her last feature was released. Oh to be serendipitied along channels that solve our hurdle challenges instead.