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by [[Slavoj Žižek]]
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''Hollywood's attempts to mark the 2001 attacks ignore their political context and the return to history they symbolise''
Two Hollywood films mark 9/11's fifth anniversary: Paul Greengrass's United 93 and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. Both adopt a terse, realistic depiction of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. There is undoubtedly a touch of authenticity to them and most critics have praised their sober styles and avoidance of sensationalism. But it is the touch of authenticity that raises some disturbing questions.
When Bush celebrated the thirst for freedom in post-communist countries as a "fire in the minds of men", the unintended irony was that he used a phrase from Dostoevsky's The Possessed, where it designates the ruthless activity of radical anarchists who burned a village: "The fire is in the minds of men, not on the roofs of houses." What Bush didn't grasp is that on September 11, five years ago, New Yorkers saw and smelled the smoke from this fire.
==Source==
* {{Z}} "On 9/11, New Yorkers faced the fire in the minds of men." ''The Guardian''. 11 September 2006. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,1869546,00.html>
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