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Whew! I had free movies this weekend and spent the afternoon watching the Tom Hanks movie with the little boy whose father dies in the 9/11 tragedy.

That little boy's acting - in fact everyone in that movie - was powerful beyond expression. I sobbed for the whole movie. It was not a "happy" movie, it was a poignant movie about real feelings expressed in the most vivid detail for the tragic and unexplainable losses in life.

If you appreciate magnificent acting with emotional power, I highly recommend the movie. It is very sad. Mostly, I try to avoid sad movies these days, but this was an exception. It will haunt me for a long time. That little boy should get some kind of recognition. Great cast all around.

The conclusion is satisfying, even if the whole movie is emotionally draining.

Anyone else see it?
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9/16/2012

I can't watch anything about 9/11

being a New Yorker even though I

don't live there it gets to me emoionally !

I used to take my nephew up there when he

was young.....

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I understand completely. I wouldn't advise watching it. I wonder how many people have that as an issue.

I remember when Perfect Storm came out, the true story of the fishing vessel in the Northern Atlantic that hit an unmeasureable storm and sank -

As the anchor was twirling up and heading for the window, I had to get up and leave the theater. It was the same story told to me by my sons who were on my sailboat with their dad from the Turks and Caicos to Puerto Plata (I flew on an airplane....) and were caught in a 40 foot rogue wave that only by the grace of God did they live through. I had been in enough frightening weather to know how bad it had been, and how it felt to them like the people on that fishing boat.

I wonder if the 9/11 reality might impact the popularity of the movie. It's really hard to watch. It doesn't dwell on the event, but rather the feeling after. But it is powerful and emotional. I actually felt a little ill. I am still glad I watched the movie because the acting was magnificent.
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DK..

One memory I can't get out of my mind is when USA today

had photos of people jumping out of the World trade center, it's

these images that will haunt me for the rest of my life. I was still

living there when they did the car bomb under the world trade center

and I remember people were terrified we werebeing invaded...

Joe.......
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I often wonder whether it's better to remember, grieve and let go or to try not to remember. I'm often puzzled by those solutions to trauma.
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9/16/2012



I do remember the people who were murdered, I try to block

out those horribe images. Matter of fact the next day in the

paper they listed the victims and I was shocked and saddened

to see Tony Perkins wife Berry Berenson listed as one of the

victims, she was on her way from Cape Cod to LA.. Tony Perkins

had a brownstone on my block 21St. beween 9th Ave. and 10th

Avenue, he lived one house from 10th Avenue. I use to see them

on the block and they would say hello. I have a funny story on him

before he married one day he stood in front of my building and a

neighbor had his windows open ( he lived on 1st floor, so Perkins

could look right into his apt.) anyway this neighbor was watching

the original Psycho and he yelled to him : " Why are you watching

that piece of crap !" I thought it was funny and strange..



Cheers..Joe...The Tom Hanks Movie about 9/11 925501
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