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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Cloverfield"

Do we really need the horror of 9/11 to be repackaged and presented to us as an amusement-park ride?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, January 19, 2008 02:20 AM

    personal trauma

    How about not having so many television shows and movies that depict war? Murder? Disease? Lawyers? Divorce? Dying children? Bad sex? Cleveland? I have experienced or been a suffering party to all of these things in my life, and dammit, I'm tired of having my experiences so thoughtlessly manipulated and exploited! For profit! For entertainment! Verkakte!!

    For all those who happened to be in Manhattan on 11/09/2001 and presume a special proprietary relationship with the tragic but natural consequences of American militarism and imperialism, a trip to Baghdad might be in order. No comparison. And they, undemocratic hostages of their own state, were actually innocent.

    —Tim Behrend, Auckland NZ Read Tim Behrend, Auckland NZ's other letters

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