We are all in THIS together

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2002)

Buildings and culture (skyscrapers in particular) are a denial of the inevitability of death (which may not be so bad a thing, incidentally, human beings). Scorsese is saying that this country was founded via bloodshed; now we are generally so spiritually corrupt, complacent, and historically ignorant that we are more concerned with cluttering the sky with phallic towers when what we should really be worshipping is the furtive soil on which many lives were lost. Such is a brave thing to imply post-"September 11th".