United Flight 93 the movie

I have now had to ignore several trailers for the United Flight 93 movie. I find the fact that they had turned a tragedy into a movie repugnant and almost beyond reproach. I am sure the people who made the movie say it is tribute to heroes, but I disagree. The people on that flight are heroes, that is not the part I disagree with, it is the “tribute” part that I take issue with. It is not a tribute it is a travesty spawned by greed and a society that thrives vicariously on the suffering of others (yes it is society’s fault too, but that is a chicken and egg issue.) It hasn’t even been a decade, the people who lost friends and family on that tragic day are still healing. Now thanks to the magic of Hollywood, they can not only be reminded of their pain, but actually watch their friends and family die on a 40 foot screen with THX sound. I freely admit I won’t watch the trailers so I don’t know, but I’d bet based on what I’ve heard about the story of that flight they will have the World Trade Center falling down in there somewhere. That way they can reopen the wounds of a whole nation, just to make a buck.

I am not even sure this movie will be good propaganda to rally support for the war on terrorism. There is too much risk of backlash for this to be a propaganda movie anyways. The propaganda movies that should work best now are:
For men: movies that put the military and service in a positive light and vilify the enemy by showing that they will wage war at any cost and cannot be negotiated with.
For women: movies that are Lifetime and Oxygen type movies, showing the human elements of war, preferably either WWII or a fake war that is against a dehumanized enemy. It also probably won’t hurt to point out to the average American woman that being a feminist in the Middle East means you don’t think a woman should be stoned to death because a man on the street saw here ankles.

The propaganda show is the Unit, since it appeals to both sexes. Actually propaganda isn’t really the order of the day since today’s media really isn’t going to help spread it. The order of the day is distraction, which is why reality or reality like TV is so popular. If people can’t be made to feel good, then at least they have something to prevent them from noticing so much.