United 93
Hollywood is clearly cashing in on terrorist-induced, media-enhanced paranoia with upcoming cockbuster World Trade Centre. Soon, we’ll be able to get our 9-Eleven fix at the multiplex the way we get our 7-Eleven slurpie at the mall.
Until then there’s a small, cynicism-free window in which to catch United 93 from British filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday). Unfolding in real time and pared down to the bare essentials (no special effects, no name actors, no music) this is a gritty drama about what might’ve happened on flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania that fateful day.
Recreating the scene from transcripts of the calls made from the plane, and enlisting flight-controllers on duty that day to play themselves, United 93 captures the chaos and despair with frightening authenticity that’ll leave you shaking like a leaf. This is gut-wrenching cinema, but for once the stale popcorn’s not to blame.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
Keywords: Paul Greengrass, Drama
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