The destruction of the Na'vi habitat Hometree reminded commentators of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, and one commentator noted Cameron's "audacious willingness to question the sacred trauma of 9/11". Cameron said that he was "surprised at how much it did look like September 11", but added that he did not think that it was necessarily a bad thing. A French critic wrote: "How can one not see the analogy with the collapse of the towers of the World Trade Center? Then, after that spectacular scene, all is justified [for the unified] indigenous peoples (the allied forces) ... to kill those who [are] just like terrorists." Another writer noted that "the U.S.' stand-ins are the perpetrators, and not the victims" and described this reversal as "the movie’s most seditious act".