I hope Hollywood waits until all of us alive today have passed before fictionalizing these events. I don’t want to see a starlet portraying a terrified stockbroker on the 81st floor. I don’t want to see the newest action hero in a fake airplane reciting lines someone has composed from the safety of his home. I don’t want cartoonish portrayals of evil Arabs wielding box cutters at pretty extras. I don’t want to see plaster walls falling on actors wearing the uniforms of New York’s finest, their soot and blood artificially applied. I don’t want the finest digital imitations of burning bodies throwing themselves off a clever reproduction of the World Trade Center.
Hollywood has twisted every other tragedy in the human experience into a money-generating freak show. I hope it shows restraint and respect this time. Some history is too horrific to ever entertain us.
