There are two different movies based around the events of September 11th coming out this year. One is an Oliver Stone movie based around two firefighters trapped in the rubble after the buildings fell (based off of actual events), the other is Paul Greengrass's "Flight 93" which is about the heroes aboard the plane who brought it down into a Pennsylvania field.

"Flight 93" will be the first one released and is the first one to have a movie trailer and poster out in movie theaters across the country. I've been reading that many people in the audience have reacted negatively to the trailer, some saying "too soon" to the movie screen, while others just simply walk out of the theater.

I can understand this sentiment and everyone is ultimately free to feel however they want to feel about the upcoming movie. If you feel the movie is coming out too closely to that day and it makes you feel uncomfortable, you're definitely not alone.

However, I don't agree with the sentiment that it's too soon for a movie like this too come out. Movies, like all art forms, should be made when the artists behind them feel that they're ready to make them. If it's too early for you to view them, then that's for you to decide.

I have a feeling that many of the people that are saying "too soon," are doing so for a few different reasons. Besides the one listed above, I have one more to elaborate upon.

From a sociological aspect, I think that some people saying "too soon" is a telling reminder of how people view movies in our culture. I think that if you were to ask the people who say "too soon" outside of the movie theater how they view paintings, comics, books, etc chronicling the events of the 11th, they'd probably say that they're for all of the above.

But when it comes to movies, many people see movie's success as largely dependant on how much money it pulls in at the Box Office, instead of the artistic statements that they are. So for people to say, "too soon," they're making a statement about our culture and our culture of movie going. They're saying that it's too early for people to go in mass to a movie about the events of the 11th, and that how the success of that movie is going to be largely seen through box office eyes, instead of on it's own artistic merit.

this post is all over the place...i didn't get much sleep last night.

anywho...discuss....

matt out