The Victims

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2010)

In his previous movie (JFK - 1991), (Oliver Stone) talked about a true tragedy that happened to America, namely the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, accusing the arms dealers, the CIA, the mafia, and maybe the presidential foundation at the time; namely the dark powers which control and rule for their own sakes whatever the loss of anyone. This time, he talks about the true tragedy only.
It's heartwarming, sometimes excruciating, movie, but with noting to say unless the meaning of goodness inside all, and how life is precious, so precious thing to be wasted without all the love that we can give. It's pretty well-meaning work. (Stone) was pure, simple, and compared to his other movies so tame and romantic. He didn't go to explore the reasons or judge anyone. Instead, he made a movie about a man who discovers that he used not to look at his wife's eyes as much as he must of late. Maybe it's a way to learn, on a very human level, a lesson from the catastrophe that hit the Americans in 2001.
It's finely scripted, directed, and acted. The details are many and tiny; hence fascinating. The true story, that the movie selected, got all what a Hollywood movie needed; a huge disaster, beautiful buddy-thing under awful circumstances, the operation to save, and sure the happy ending. And it's what the audience needed at the time to express a lot of suppressed emotions as well.
Anyway, I loved (World Trade Center). It's rich and powerful sad movie, where thousands of innocent people suffer what they totally didn't deserve, being victims of the ones who are "trading" the "world" for their own profits. It reminded me of (Stone)'s trilogy of Vietnam where many Americans were sent to hell for a crime they didn't commit. Maybe in a crime was committed to them and others, and by not too far criminals than the same profiteering powers that caused many disasters, big part of 9/11 is one of them. So the world had become a Trade, and we all merchandise to be sold. This movie arouses returning to the human side. That's a great step yet before knowing who are selling?, and what's they earned? Maybe that's what (Stone) would have done in his next movie (W.). I hope that he questioned and answered there what was waited from him here, and when he didn't, his fans left disappointed.
It is to everyone died in, or survived from, the tragedy as simply they are all victims. Though still the saddest matter, for me, is that more thousands of innocent victims all over the world, especially in Palestine and Iraq, don't have the luxury of making movies, with big budget and stars, about their daily loss and tragic history, or even caring about saving them in the first place.