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Issue 11 - Spring / Summer 2006Page 7 |
Film Review - United 93 |
BY BARRIE ZWICKER, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
In the beginning was 9/11, shortly followed by the Big Lie. Then from mainstream and alternative media came three years of lies reinforcing the official 9/11 story, leading up to the release of The 9/11 Commission 'Report' - the official lie in book form. Now, with the Hollywood movie United 93, we get the lie in cinema vérité.
This version, like the others, is easily demonstrable as a falsification. It features the same impossibilities, absurdities and contradictions as the lie in its other forms. As such it contains the seeds of its own destruction.
The 9/11 Commission strategy of making the FAA the fall guy for the 'failures' that day is embellished in United 93. "We're getting no clearance from the FAA to get those birds over Manhattan," complains a NORAD commander playing himself. Since when do the military await orders from the FAA?
Within the movie are anomalies that should make audiences laugh out loud, except that the frenetic pace of the hand-held camera work precludes critical thought by the unprepared. At one point we are introduced to a passenger who is a pilot. He offers: "I'm a pilot. I've been flying all my life. There's something wrong here." This would make sense except that his line comes after the plane has been hijacked by a screaming man who bares a home made bomb strapped to his abdomen and holds aloft a detonator switch with wires running to the bomb. Yep, something's not right here - this pilot, the dialogue, the whole movie. We see four cell phone calls made, none of which would be possible at that altitude over rural countryside lacking cell phone transmitters. The fact that debris from Flight 93 was found over 13 square kilometers, indicative that it was shot down, finds no place in this movie, which has the plane going straight down into that 'crash site' where no bodies and not a drop of blood were found.
The movie, according to executive producer Paul Greengrass, is "based on fact" and spun out in the 'real time' Flight 93 was aloft. This combination will prove its Achilles heel. For instance, long after all the four airliners have allegedly been hijacked by terrorists, the FAA and the military are engaged in patently absurd discussions about "getting some birds up there." In the real world, interceptors are scrambled in three minutes or so.
United 93 is a con job, a particular form of psychological warfare. The night I saw it, the stunned silence that followed the end of the movie suggested to me that perhaps the audience had swallowed it hook, line and sinker. If so they have swallowed state-sponsored propaganda embedded within a meta version of information warfare. Is it coincidence that the alleged conversations captured from the cockpit voice recorder of Flight 93 were released by the state 1,670 days after the events of 9/11? On April 13, at the show trial of Zacarias Moussaoui? Just 15 days before release of this movie? That the movie's dialogue follows the released alleged conversations perfectly? Either this is sheer coincidence or high-level planning.
As usual, the mainstream media remain oblivious to such facts and questions. Mainstream reviewers universally praised the movie for its verisimilitude, becoming effective tools of the state psywar planners. Maclean's magazine movie critic Brian D. Johnson accepts United 93 as a documentary, something even the movie doesn't claim. "There's something reassuring to have the pieces of the puzzle put together. It's very true to reality," he said on TVO's current affairs program Studio 2, on April 28, the day the movie opened.
United 93 presents another opportunity for the 9/11 Truth movement to reveal another pastiche of lies and thereby a cover-up, this time on celluloid. United 93, the movie, will eventually crash like Flight 93. It's up to us to shoot it down, using ammunition drawn from the movie itself. "Nobody's going to help us. We've got to do it," says one passenger. That's right. It's us against the government, the media, the courts and Hollywood. Let's roll.
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Barrie Zwicker is a contributing editor to Global Outlook. He is producer of "The Great Deception - The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw" and author of (newly released) Towers of Deception - 9/11 and the Media Cover-Up. All rights reserved. Copyright belongs to the author.
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