Don't miss the point.

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2006)

This movie was about 9/11, but much more, it was about people. It never mentioned the deep causes, but it focused on two families. If you saw Shindlers List, one little girl was painted frame by frame to humanize something that can't be totally understand. We don't have any conception of 6 million, but we can relate to one little girl. In this story, almost 3000 never came home. We can't imagine that, but we can understand two men, two families, and the four or five people who represented so many others. How many former military men re-upped that day? How many very competent 911 operators just got it wrong that day? How many Americans just knew they had to go to New York that day? (My son did. He got on a bus and went to do anything.)Did an addict, a former paramedic really help, and change his life? I don't know, but I do know that individuals were impacted in positive, life changing ways. I think Oliver Stone did a wonderful job of not sensationalizing, and bringing the reality down to understandable terms.