Reply #39: Do we ever "need" any movie? Probably not. [View All]

[Jazz2006]

There was an advance screening here in Toronto for firefighters, cops, and other emergency response team members on July 27 but since it was my birthday, I didn't go because we had other plans (my beau is a fire captain, thus the invitation). From what I hear, it was rather well received by those who went, but still, there are a lot of people even among the rescue worker groups who are not too keen on seeing it. Some think that the hundreds of deaths of their "brothers and sisters" who died that day should never be dramatized in film; some think it is a fitting tribute to those who died; some think it should have been made sooner; some think it should never have been made at all; in other words, opinions vary. And that, at least, is how it should be.

Personally, I will probably go and see it this week because I can't comment on its contents unless I see it for myself.