THE SEARCH FOR MR. ADEQUATE
Part 65

By Susan Silver

This will be brief and to the point so indulge me, Dear Readers.

The CB (cute banker) and I had a date to go to the movies. It was a film I’d kind of avoided, but felt I “had” to see. Guilty girl that I am. But I was waiting to go with someone, not feeling it was a movie to see alone. It was the story of the brave passengers who fought back on 9/11, “United 93.”

So late in the afternoon the other day, we saw it. I cannot recommend this highly enough. In fact I will do the equivalent of shouting on the Internet and use CAPS!

EVERYONE MUST GO SEE “UNITED 93.” You owe it to these people who died and were so courageous, to pay them homage. And it really makes you think about what you would do under the circumstances. Art and reality mixed to do what great art does … make you think and feel and become totally involved.

As a piece of art it is astounding … the editing, the sound, the sheer force of the drama being driven and accented by the brilliant musical score.

Other disaster movies or TV projects are often gripping, or at least frightening. This is in a whole other class. Not just a detached and intellectual experience, it was gut wrenching. It will remain with you, perhaps forever.

It is almost in real time so that you are experiencing it as they did, the confusion, the terror, the growing knowledge that they had to do something … even if it meant their own death. In short bursts of revelation you get a sense of who each of these people is. I can understand that a family member might not want to see it as it would be way too painful.

Those of us fortunate not to know anyone who suffered 9/11 up close and personal have, I suppose, put it in back of our minds and carry on. This movie makes it impossible to avoid remembering and caring about these people as real human beings, not just numbers.

After the movie, I, the non drinker, needed a couple. Okay, it turned out to be saki, but it did the trick.

I don’t think the movie is doing a lot of business, but at Academy Award time, it should not be forgotten. You will thank me, not for an enjoyable experience but for a profound one.

Let me know.

P.S. On a lighter note, we had a great time together. He is fun and really cute!

Next week it’s back to the comic adventures of yours truly and some of the gang who have fallen, in one case literally, on hard times. But will recover. Until then …

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