Is United 93 Worth Watching?
Clearly, United 93 is not a ‘let’s watch this with the kids” type of movie. It is a fairly accurate depiction of a very tragic incident in which everything went wrong, not just for America but for the hijackers, too. Not only did the 40 passengers and crew resist to the very end, but other factors derailed Al Qaeda’s plans for United 93, which was supposed to hit the White House around the same time the other three planes hit their targets. Though the whole movie is spine-chilling and incredibly intense, for me the toughest moment in United 93 comes while the plane is still at the gate in Newark. The passengers – including the four terrorists – are aboard, the crew is getting things settled, and the access hatch closes. It’s at this moment, when we see the latch mechanism moving inexorably to the LOCKED position, that I felt the worst anxiety. It’s a small detail, one that everyone of us who has boarded a plane on our way to somewhere else has probably never noticed. But in this contex
