Paul Greengrass, one of Hollywood’s most prolific filmmakers, makes United Flight 93 an accurate portrait of the sequence of instability and panic that has engulfed the United States since September 11, 2001, when terrorism bared its teeth against the world in 2001 in a more frightening way that provokes an episode that, fortunately, continues to provoke the rejection of the international community and of the women and men we value for the civilizational values that have allowed us to get here with some order, without them ignoring individual freedom and security. Almost everything has already been said about the crash of not one, but two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centers in Lower Manhattan, the heart of New York, as well as a third plane bound for the Pentagon, the US headquarters Department of Defense, near the capital, Washington. But the crash of the fourth plane in an open field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in the northeastern United States at 10:03 a.m., after a heroic attempt by some passengers and crew to subdue the hijackers and take command of United Airlines Taking over Flight 93 the very chapter in that hateful and almost nonsensical disaster about which less is known, is the subject of careful study in which Greengrass despises careless and incompetent authorities with such class that their names are never heard, even when they know exactly who they are, while he doesn’t shy away from detesting again the crazy means of people with a very peculiar conception of God, a devilish being driven by resentment, intolerance, anger and always greedy for blood of unbelievers is so called righteous because they dare to profess other faiths.
The more he tries to grapple with what actually happened behind the scenes of the greatest assault on American sovereignty on his own territory, the more the director fuels in us a certainty that something was, and is, very wrong with America, without ever tending towards impartiality. hypocritical and cowardly to suggest that the victims and the great martyr of all, Yankee Democracy bore some responsibility for their martyrdom. The necessary institutional counteroffensive to the attacks, as already envisioned, led to attacks of all kinds, including against innocent civilians, a scenario whose nefariousness can well be compared to that of terrorsponsored attacks; Greengrass executes the notion of free will in a very subtle way, however, and one has to constantly move back and forth as the film progresses, dramatically but extremely journalistically, to have the inescapable certainty of what one is seeing. Right at the beginning a man prays and reads the Koran; Shortly thereafter he shaves and grooms himself carefully, confident that he will be in Paradise that day enjoying his seventy virgins as Mohammed had preached (571632), even if this is a pathetic distortion of what the Prophet of Islam had wanted. Khalid Abdalla’s serene face confuses even the viewer, but it is Ziad Samir Jarrah (19752001), his character, who takes the lead in the operation and invades the cockpit, from Captain Jason M. Dahl (19572001) . JJ Johnson and drove the copilot, 33 passengers, six flight attendants and the other three hijackers to their brutal deaths.
The director is adept at driving the dynamic he chooses for the story, blending the backdrop of the disaster with the frantic desperation of air traffic controllers in Newark, Herndon, Boston, Ronkonkoma and Cleveland, from where the Boeing N591UA 757222 of United Airlines took off, much to the chagrin of a person who only realized a few minutes before the end that he had fallen into a deadly trap. There were no survivors in any of the incidents, resulting in the deaths of 2,977 civilians and the nineteen hijackers. Another 6,291 people were injured.
Movie: United flight 93
Direction: Paul Greengrass
Year: 2006
Genres: Drama/Docudrama
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