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I usually enjoy Stephanie's reviews - even when I disagree vehemently with them (as I did, for example with Superman Returns) I respect her reasoning.
However, one particular line in this review stopped me short -
"But if movies about 9/11 have to be made at all -- and no one has yet answered the question, for me, at least, of why we should need or want them just yet"
You know what, I haven't heard a convincing argument why movies about 9/11 should NOT be made, that doesn't sound like hypocritical American insularism. It was five years ago - there were films made about other 20th century disasters and wars while they were going on, or in the immediate aftermath. Why should 9/11 get special treatment? To me, its just another example of American chauvinism - their culture will happily leech off the tragedies of other countries but agonise over their own. Either grow a spine about the whole thing or don't watch.
