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30 April 2006
Filed under Film and Television, Life, Politics, Text

This article by Matt Haughey is the first I’ve read - but undoubtedly one of many to come - attacking Universal Studios and its marketing arms for producing and selling tickets to the film United 93. In Matt’s view, it’s quite simply wrong to try “to make a buck off this nation’s tragedy”, and maybe if that’s all they were doing I might agree.

Like it or not, however, film is one of the ways our culture makes sense of our lives. Nothing’s off-limits and nor should it be. Films (and there will be more) about the events of that terrible day will anger and upset people, provoke discussion, raise good and bad memories and probably make a stack of money for the movie studios that produce them, but all that’s just part of the process of turning the raw recent past into history, and moving on.

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