Daily post 09 Aug 2006 07:02 am
Wear
- Thanks to all my friends, old & new, for the support. Claude has at least another month of wearing down to go. It’s gonna take a lot of normalcy from us to support him, and your kind words help.
- Last night I saw World Trade Center, Oliver Stone’s film. It’s so serious of purpose and good intentioned that it doesn’t make for a good film. More like a TV movie with a lot of money to recreate the event via special effects. It’s so earnest.
The acting is brilliant but to no purpose. I was glad to be reminded in vivid detail of the event; it’s not a day I want to forget and doubt I could. However, you look for the tiniest details to be wrong to support your own memory of it. Those hundreds of “Missing” xeroxes pinned everywhere about the City weren’t sharp, focussed, color images of head shots. They were down and dirty xerox copies of fading wedding pictures and out of focus, random photographs. The grittiness of those xeroxes was so beyond words. I know, that’s the only detail I’m picking on, but there were others. This one was so poignant to all of us in NY.
I think we’re too close to it for anyone to give a hardened opinion of the facts. That’s the only thing that could make art out of this highly polished glue and sawdust movie.
