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...instead of the way the film introduced its disaster-genre narrative using the cliché of the young man who must prove his worth to the woman he has mistreated. Notice what they're talking about when the monster shows up? "You're not good enough for her but she's in love with you anyway and you have to prove to her" blah blah blah....
If they wanted to make a film about post 9-11 fear, why not just make it about survival, pure and simple, and leave out the "rite of passage/becoming a hero/proving himself to a woman" narrative structure? I would have respected the film more if they had simply made it a story of some kids trying to rescue a trapped friend....
