You know what the weirdest offshoot of 9/11 is for me? I couldn't watch Independence Day, (one of my favourite tune-out-and-veg movies) for a very long time.
When my mum woke me up that morning with the news, the first words out of my mouth were, "... but that's just like The Siege." Couldn't watch the movie for years after that. Had my first time post-9/11 about four months ago, actually.
You know, it's funny. For a class (on medieval drama, no less) last year, I was instructed to read an article--well, more of an editorial--from the New Yorker about how people perceive real life events like 9/11 within the... err, context of movies, I suppose. Written so soon after the actual event, it managed to be fascinating and heartbreaking, all at the same time.
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When my mum woke me up that morning with the news, the first words out of my mouth were, "... but that's just like The Siege." Couldn't watch the movie for years after that. Had my first time post-9/11 about four months ago, actually.
You know, it's funny. For a class (on medieval drama, no less) last year, I was instructed to read an article--well, more of an editorial--from the New Yorker about how people perceive real life events like 9/11 within the... err, context of movies, I suppose. Written so soon after the actual event, it managed to be fascinating and heartbreaking, all at the same time.