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Interesting how that people think that watching tragedy (especially if it's based on a real life event) is okay, so long as it is distanced by a few years from the real thing.
Making a movie about the sinking of the Titanic is okay, because most of the survivors are dead now.
I wonder how long a director should wait after a huge tradegy happens before they should make a movie about it? When is it acceptable? I'm sure it depends on whom the tragedy occurs.
It seems fitting to me that sensationalist America couldn't wait 5 years before making a movie about something as sensational as the bombing of the towers. It's just too good of material, isn't it? It's perfect movie making stuff.
And you know, I think they could make a good movie out of it. They could treat it seriously, much in the same way that Moore did with the Columbine shootings. But even before you could convince yourself that that could be a possibility, you read that Nicolas Cage has been cast in the lead role, and all hope of them taking this movie and this terrible tragedy seriously are thrown right out the window.
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But even when I'm on my knees I know the devil preys
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