Just got back from seeing it. Let's just say that if I never hear the words "Allahu akbar" again as long as I live, that'll be okay. Really, it will. More thoughts tomorrow morning, after I've sorted out all kinds of complicated emotions. I will say that it was a very well done film, though it did not strike me as inspirational in the least. Which is good: I don't think we need to be inspired by a 9/11 movie. The overwhelming feeling I took from the film was of how quickly reality -- "reality" -- can be shattered, and how difficult it is to accept what is happening, and to act on that information. In my small way, that was my experience on 9/11 too, and it haunts me to this day, how hard it is for the mind to accept what it doesn't want, or isn't prepared, to accept.
But again, more on this tomorrow.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Rod, if you just focused this blog on how the mind refuses to accept information, and then fails to act, you could have a very long dialogue.>
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