September 11th

anksta said:
you dont see hollywood making a film about anyone gettin hit by a drunk driver on the way home, and if they did then I'd think it wouldnt be too much to give the family of that person some sort of donation.
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But is the film about anyone specifically? From what i have seen its just about an event that happened with fictional characters. Should every WW2 family be given funding from every film based on WW2 because they were there/died? Films have no obligation to give money for being about an event.

Dont get me wrong, im not against charity (probably the opposite), but i think the amount of funding for 9/11 families is ridiculous in comparison to the amount given to cancer/heart disease research groups (especially as the death toll from these makes 9.11 nearly insignificant)
 
fozzybear said:
Very poor film imo.

No film will be able to sum up what happened that day. i'd much rather watch the 9/11 documentary by French filmmakers, Jules and Gedeon Naudet.
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Was that on the BBC a year or two ago? That was a great
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-- very moving.
 
PikeyPriest said:
But is the film about anyone specifically? From what i have seen its just about an event that happened with fictional characters. Should every WW2 family be given funding from every film based on WW2 because they were there/died? Films have no obligation to give money for being about an event.

Dont get me wrong, im not against charity (probably the opposite), but i think the amount of funding for 9/11 families is ridiculous in comparison to the amount given to cancer/heart disease research groups (especially as the death toll from these makes 9.11 nearly insignificant)
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Well for a start, its based on about 5 real people who were there, cant remember their names but its a true story, not just based on the events.

And also, if there was no crime, no hatred in the world then people would still die of cancer and heart disease but the people who died in 9/11 were innocent people. I'm not sayin people with cancer arent innocent but disease is just part of the world, an unavoidable part.
 
anksta said:
Well for a start, its based on about 5 real people who were there, cant remember their names but its a true story, not just based on the events.

And also, if there was no crime, no hatred in the world then people would still die of cancer and heart disease but the people who died in 9/11 were innocent people. I'm not sayin people with cancer arent innocent but disease is just part of the world, an unavoidable part.
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This is kind of getting of topic for music now, but surely DEATH is part of the world, not just disease. Depending on how you think about it nearly ever death in avoidable depending on what measures we take to stop it (excluding old age). Some measures are just easier than others. Bad things happen in the world and over the last 100 years 9.11 is practically insignificant.

The problem is that giving money to the families of those who died in 9.11 achieves absolutely nothing now as these families have already recieved more than anyone else who happened to have a family member die (in any circumstance). So what will giving them more money achieve? At least if money went towards research then we would actually be working towards preventing deaths in the future, rather than making ourselves feel better about things that have already happened and we cant do anything about.
 
Scam said:
Was that on the BBC a year or two ago? That was a great
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-- very moving.
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Yeah, it's also available on DVD. Excellently made and very moving as you said.

Its almost freaky how they were making a documentary on the NYFD at the time. The events of 9/11 soon changed that.
 
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