Wednesday, August 09, 2006  9/11: Still searching for the
pony...  Oliver Stone's film World Trade Center is being
released today, another in a string of films about September
11th which have come out or are undoubtedly in the works.  I
haven't seen any of the more recent ones. For some reason, I
have no strong desire to. I'm not exactly sure what it is.  It
may be partly because even the trailers for these films provoke
a knot in my stomach, caused both by a lot of unpleasant
memories of that day and by the thudding inevitablity of the
events they deal with. ('So, how did it end?' is probably not
going to be one of those questions asked when friends mention
having seen World Trade Center the evening before.)  These are
things which I really do not want to relive, especially in
widescreen and dolby surround.  My hesitation, however, may also
have somethign to do with the word 'uplifting', which seems to
feature rather prominently in some of the reviews and commentary
about the film.  There does seem to be a t