On September 11th, 2001, I was in R.L Hyslop School in grade 5. I think we were told at school about what had happened and we were little at that time and we didn’t really react to it. Some kids were like “Cool” and some kids were worried because they seen the teacher panic and just stop what they were doing. My parents were worried because some of our relatives lived there and I remember my parents calling my cousin up who lived there and made sure they were okay. My parents were terrified when they heard what happened but they were relieved that our relatives were not harmed. I remember when I came back home I went to my cousins house and we were all sitting there watching the Twin Towers and how it all happened. That’s what we watched over and over on T.V because all the channels were broadcasting the Twin Towers falling. My cousins were a little older and mature and they were shocked because this kind of stuff never happens in reality. At that time I didn’t know much about the Twin Towers so it didn’t affect me as much but now when I look back at it, I can feel the pain the people have went through and how much harm is has done.
In Alan Jackson’s song “Where you were” he says “I cannot tell the different between Iraq and Iran.” Well, neither can I. I don’t know the difference between Iraq and Iran probably because it doesn’t matter to me and it is probably the same for Alan Jackson. Alan Jackson is basically saying that CNN plays things for people’s entertainment not for educational purposes. This also says that people don’t care about what they are watching because they don’t understand anything about what they are watching.
I think Alan Jackson’s song describes a vivid variety of the manifestation of grief, from sorrow to rage to depression to political activism because it talks about people who lost their loved ones. He also says, “Did you feel guilty cause you’re a survivor.” Alan is trying to get you thinking deep down and wants you to connect to your feelings and wants you to think what you were doing that day while all these other people went through a traumatic tragedy. He wants you to feel every emotion and what you would feel if you were in a position where your loved one was hurt or involved in the 9/11.
I think the production of these films are educational because the people who will watch these movies will kind of feel what the other people went through but for other people who were actually there for real life felt it wasn’t real at all and felt like they were in a movie. I think they do exploit the deaths for entertainment and profit because they know people who haven’t seen the Twin Towers fall want to watch it on movie. Movie producers know that so many people outside the world, who haven’t seen this big traumatic event, will want to watch it at some point and it will make them tones of profit. It is very obvious that someone was going to make a movie on this because of how much profit they were going to make. In one of the video’s a person said “this is so F*****’ real” by this quote you can feel people didn’t think this was real they thought they were in a movie because these kind of things happen in movies. People make movies for people’s entertainment and profit nothing more than that. The video clips of 9-11 and United 93, The World Trait Centre and the Spider-man trailer of WTC are all very touching. Just to see what has or would have happened to people it scares you. If people would not make movies like this then people around the world wouldn’t know what people have gone through.
The Spider-man WTC trailer was cancelled and now shown on T.V because the Two Twin towers were in it and in the trailer Spider man was jump back and forth on them. When they were going to show the trailers on T.V the twin towers were no longer there. They didn’t want to show the trailer because they didn’t want people to remember the past and get emotional and go through the trauma because some people have lost family members or even relatives in the incident.
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