Amazing Movie Yet Hard to Watch

I checked out the movie 9-11 from Netflicks.

Its a collection of 13 movies each 9 minutes long. Its a reflection of the tragedy from various film producers from all over the world. Each producer/writer wrote made these short movies with a nod to the individual cultures and styles of the region each is very different in message and form.

It is really important to make the effort to turn of the subtitles as few of us speak Afganistan, French, Japanese or Spanish.

Most noteworthy in the collection were the film of my followed director, Alejandro González Iñárritu and American director, Sean Penn.

Alejandro's work is pretty stark. Most of it has a darken screen with stange voices in it. Ocassionally there will be a frame or two of people jumping off the tower, and snippets of news broadcasts from the radio.

Sean Penn's work uses actor Ernest Borgnine as the elderly man who still mourns his wife. Its pretty symbolic as dried flowers suddenly from the glow of the tragedy come to life as a viable bouquet again. Some pretty amazing simple vignettes presented in the same manner.

I made the mistake two times in a row to set this movie up when I was falling asleep. Some of the vignettes are truly without sound and as predicted.. they were lost on me as I went under. I ended up with some pretty weird dreams. Check this movie out when you have enough energy to watch it through.

: ) Pat