United 93
Paul Greengrass
2006 France/UK/US (1st time; big screen)
September 11, 2001: while air control tries to get hold of a major hijack situation, passengers on the hijacked United 93 decide to overhaul the terrorists.
There is a moment here where we see, for a brief shot, the World Trade Centre through the window of the to-be-hijacked plane - the attacks haven't happened yet, but the foreboding is implicit enough; effective storytelling of a plot most of us know the ending to. The sound is key, here: a rich, deep texture of diegetic ambience which, combined with grainy images, photographed almost entirely in hand-held close-up, lends a sense of unsettling, subdued and claustrophobic immediacy throughout.


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