102 Minutes That Changed America

The footage is fascinatingly tragic and morbid. With no voiceover or commentary, the raw images are allowed to speak for themselves without being coerced by any alternate motives or irrelevant statements. Given its subject matter has been analysed from every angle, by commentators with agendas from every angle this documentary does well to earn its place as a worthwhile addition to 9/11's many studies. Unusually then by saying very little at all it manages to communicate a whole lot.

"Because we're under siege. I don't know what's going on." - Bystander (in her apartment looking out on to the Twin Towers) on the phone to her friend.

The immediate, profound and seemingly widespread need for revenge by those witnessing the towers collapse, documented in the middle, is a reaction that, despite increased hatred for groups the hijackers unilaterally claimed to act in the name of, seems less likely today. It at that moment becomes clear just how profound the changes caused by this event have been throughout the world, something that will ensure it constituency of history curricula for decades, if not centuries to come.

A fucking horror film.

Started well but the creepy hyper-reality of it soon hit me. Famous for it's soft-spoken residents not one person in New York swore during the attack. A simulation so sanitized it falls into an uncanny valley of distaste.

Really quite harrowing and effective.

Harrowing and downright apocalyptic. Fantastic raw footage, untainted by sentimentality.