This is a modified response [that I gave this AM] to a blog about a movie (United 93)
that will soon be in theaters about what transpired on 9/11.

Hollywood seems to have a love affair with manipulation, using, & bullshit schemes!!!!

Now, I'm all for documentaries, that educate & enlighten.... 
but, I'm NOT for a motion picture [such as this one] where a director is RECREATING
the tragedy & emotions that're associated with the event ON PURPOSE for entertainment.

Everyone's KIDDING THEMSELVES if they think that the images of 9/11 WON'T resonate
within their soul & mind, for the rest of their lives....
to imply that we'll somehow magically forget about 9/11, is bordering on STUPIDITY!!!!

Folks are KIDDING THEMSELVES by underestimating the memories of people....
there are countless examples of traumatic historical events that people haven't forgotten
to this very day & many of these people have NEVER seen a movie about it.  For instance....
has The Arab World forgotten about The Crusades CENTURIES after they happened????
NO & they DIDN'T need to see Orlando Bloom's flick just to make them remember
[furthermore, nobody living today even witnessed the bloodshed of those wars].

NOBODY's forgotten about the dropping of our atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.... 
& has there been a motion picture made within the past 20 years about it????  NO!!!!
Despite the fact that MOST of us weren't even alive the day that it happened,
we still know about the event b-cuz it's a part of American history that's being taught daily.

NOBODY's forgotten about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
from the day that it happened until Ben Affleck's film came out &
seeing his movie DIDN'T raise our awareness of the tragedy anymore than it'd already been.
Again, b-cuz it's a part of American history being taught every day.

So, regarding 9/11....
I think it's ludicrous to act like Hollywood must PLAY with people's FRESH emotions &
use "or else they'll forget" as a bullshit smokescreen for the studios' motivation to
make money b-cuz they can't drive people into the cinema without making a film about
2 cowboys fucking behind their wives backs [the same Jerry Springer shit that we see daily].

So, let's deal with this RIDICULOUS belief that we as Americans will forget 9/11
[even though every Chicago Cubs fan remembers the last time they won The World Series]!!!!

Now, granted, people's attention spans are extremely short nowadays [thanks to TV]....
but, it DOESN'T take a rocket scientist to realize that the WORST American tragedy WON'T
be forgotten by us or future generations [based on previous historical examples alone,
that weren't even televised @ the time that they happened].

If a woman got raped by somebody who was sick enough to videotape the crime....
are you trying to tell me that her psychiatrist would need to pop the tape into the VCR, 
just to make certain that she always remembers the trauma that she was put through????
C'mon now folks----there are some things that will ALWAYS stick with ya [like giving birth].

If you REALLY think that Americans are gonna forget about 9/11....
then, let's force every rape victim in America to watch Thelma & Louise once per year
[but, only the part where Geena Davis was being raped].  And when the scene's finished,
we can tell them, "We're only showing you this, b-cuz we DON'T want you to forget the
trauma that you had to live through".  Think of how cruel that would be.

When soldiers see their friends die by a roadside bomb....
they DON'T need CBS News to replay the footage for the next 50 years,
in order for them to remember the emotions of seeing blood & guts splattered everywhere.

If we REALLY need Hollywood studios to ensure that we as Americans remember 9/11....
then the U.S. govt. might as well legalize weed & stop bitching about short-term memory loss.

Traumatic events, such as 9/11 will NEVER be erased from the American psyche b-cuz
we were all there watching people jumping from the towers to their deaths in our
TV-addicted society.  Unlike many other tragedies, 9/11 was televised LIVE for us all to see.

I dunno about you guys, but I question the makeup of people that actually BELIEVE that
Americans will forget 9/11 unless movies are made about it....
the whole thing stinks of a Hollywood ploy!!!!
 
I don't need Hollywood to manipulate WHAT I SAW WITH MY OWN EYES [for profit],
in order for me to remember the bloodshed of 9/11 & I'm deeply offended that people are
naive enough to buy the idea that this shameful Hollywood scam NEEDS to be done.
Unless the movie's for a G-rated crowd, then NONE of us need to see what we already saw!!!

Wake the fuck up, quit being paranoid, & stop kidding yourselves!!!!
Nobody's REALLY gonna forget....   & if somebody would choose to forget what they saw,
then think about how traumatizing the events of that day must've been for them [to do that].
And that's a good enough reason why it's TOO SOON to do dramatic interpretations of 9/11.