Saturday, October 14, 2006

Movie: World Trade Centre

Of course it's nothing new about movies like this, the title says it all. An event that took place 5 years ago, through the story of two patrol policemen who went in as a team but ended up the building collapsed on them, leaving two of them still alive but pinned under debris. That with love, humanity pulls through, love of one person for another. You can be total strangers but it doesn't matter because everyone is a brother or a sister, regardless of race, language, religion. Somehow very touched by humanity depicted here. Simple but touching. I'm always amazed at how strong humanity can be, especially those stories about how after a few days you can still find survivors even though hope of living is so minimal. Life is indeed miraculous. The movie leaves me wanting to go out there and save someone right after the movie.

At the end of the movie, when the names of those who died in the disaster appeared, people in the cinema start leaving. I think maybe it's just here. Maybe it really doesn't strike a chord in them. I feel that the only polite thing to do is to at least let the names scroll to the end, in respect for the people who perished just because they happened to be in the building or whether they went in to save others but end up losing their lives. We will never be able to feel what they felt but the least, show respect for these people.

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