There were disaster procedurals and melodramas and documentaries—but 20 years after 9/11, Spike Lee's '25th Hour' is the only one to capture the tragedy of what happened.
© Walt Disney/Everett Collectiontell this story set in the city he was born and bred in, one he’s always been vocal about loving , and ignore that trauma New Yorkers had faced. “‘We were very careful how we were going to portray Sept. 11, because we know it’s still very painful and that it will always be very painful for those who lost people,” Mr. Lee said in that aforementionedinterview. ”But at the same time, we couldn’t stick our heads in the sand and pretend like it never happened.
It was a scathing thing to watch back then. To see those “Fuck Yous” now, as 9/11 rolls around again and we think of everything that has happened since that beautiful day in New York turned ugly , is to feel a battered affection, something familiar to all New Yorkers. But, as with so much init also makes you aware of the passage of time. This was how it felt to watch NYC go through this back then. This is how it feels to watch it happen again.
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